The alert and creative entrepreneur: a clarification

By I. Kirzner. 2009

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Sustainable Entrepreneurship: Is Entrepreneurial will Enough? A North–South Comparison (2011, background): “Hence, Kirzner’s entrepreneurs are not necessarily the Schumpeterian bold, visionary, longterm oriented and disruptive innovators, but rather the ‘‘passively alert, harmony-restoring responders to changes that have already occurred’’ with a rather short-term outlook (Kirzner, 2009, p. 149).”
Antecedents of Business Opportunity Identification and Innovation: Investigating the Interplay of Information Processing and Information Acquisition (2014, background): “Second, the construct of entrepreneurial alertness remains broad and unspecific with the consequence that scholars have adopted inconsistent approaches to measure entrepreneurial alertness (cf., Busenitz, 1996; Gaglio, 2004; Gaglio & Katz, 2001; Kaish & Gilad, 1991; Kirzner, 2009).”
Economic globalization, entrepreneurship, and development (2018, unknown): “Following Kirzner (2009), Williamson and Kaiser (2005) and Ács and Audretsch (1988), this tremendous amount of human capital has created significant R & D returns which have reduced transaction costs and increased opportunities for SMEs.”
Creative personality, opportunity recognition and the tendency to start businesses: A study of their genetic predispositions (2015, background): “Furthermore,more creative individuals have been found to bemore likely to recognize entrepreneurial opportunities (Ardichvili et al., 2003; Dimov, 2007; Heinonen et al., 2011; Kirzner, 2009), develop business ideas (Puhakka, 2007), and exhibit entrepreneurial intentions (Yar Hamidi et al., 2008).”
Entrepreneurial alertness as a pathway to strategic decisions and organizational performance (2018, background): “…which decision makers sense and anticipate entrepreneurial opportunities associated with the current and future states of their business environment, is part of a key mechanism through which entrepreneurial opportunities are recognized, constructed, and acted upon (e.g. Kirzner, 1973, 1985, 2009).”
Entrepreneurial alertness: Exploring its psychological antecedents and effects on firm outcomes (2021, background): “In response to these findings and to the criticism that omitting active search ignored the fact that entrepre-neurs are often proactive—they seek opportunities rather than waiting for them to appear (e.g., Ardichvili et al., 2003; Marvel, 2013)—Kirzner (2009) modified his views on this issue.”
Towards a schematic theory of entrepreneurial alertness (2013, unknown): “…the future” (Kirzner, 1985: 56), “an attitude of receptiveness to available, but hitherto overlooked, opportunities” (Kirzner, 1997: 72), or “a sense of what might be ‘around the corner’, i.e., the sense to notice that which has hitherto not been suspected of existing at all” (Kirzner, 2008: 12).”
Grappling with the Unbearable Elusiveness of Entrepreneurial Opportunities (2011, background): “While the field has taken this notion in a literal, anthropomorphic sense, Kirzner himself has had to clarify that his original conception of alertness is only as a metaphor for how an economy can move from disequilibrium toward equilibrium (Kirzner, 2009).”