Escaping the Prior Knowledge Corridor: What Shapes the Number and Variety of Market Opportunities Identified Before Market Entry of Technology Start-ups?

By Marc Gruber, Ian C. MacMillan, James D. Thompson. Organ. Sci., 2013

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The Schumpeterian entrepreneur: a review of the empirical evidence on the antecedents, behaviour and consequences of innovative entrepreneurship (2017, unknown): “Other studies focus on prior the entrepreneur’s prior experiences (e.g. Cliff, Jennings, and Greenwood 2006; Ucbasaran, Westhead, and Wright 2009; Gruber, MacMillan, and Thompson 2013; Simmons, Wiklund, and Levie 2014).”
The open innovation research landscape: established perspectives and emerging themes across different levels of analysis (2016, unknown): “Specifically, OI can help entrepreneurs in identifying opportunities that are distant to their own knowledge endowments (distant search) and, thus, to acquire superior vision of the opportunity landscape available to the entrepreneur (Gruber, MacMillan, and Thompson 2013).”
Mental disorders in the entrepreneurship context : When Being Different Can Be an Advantage (2018, background): “For example, larger opportunity sets at venture formation have been associated with superior performance and growth in the long run (Gruber et al., 2008; 2013).”
Entrepreneurial leadership, capabilities and firm growth (2015, background): “Entrepreneurs who identify a ‘choice set’ of market opportunities prior to first entry derive performance benefits by doing so, albeit at a diminishing rate (Gruber et al., 2013).”
Maneuvering in poor visibility : How firms play the ecosystem game when uncertainty is high (2017, background): “Based on real-option logics, several authors have highlighted the importance of generating multiple alternatives (see, e.g., Gruber et al., 2008, 2013) andhave advisedmanagers to keep their options open over time, instead of committing prematurely to wild bets (McGrath & MacMillan, 2000).”
Open for Ideation: Individual-level Openness and Idea Generation in R&D (2012, result): “…organizational-level openness (e.g., Laursen and Salter, 2006; Leiponen and Helfat, 2010) and to measure project and team-level search efforts (Gruber, MacMillan, and Thompson, 2013; Li, Maggitti, Smith, Tesluk, and Katila, 2012; Salge et al., 2012).6 Our measure is consistent with Dahlander…”
Entrepreneurial alertness: Exploring its psychological antecedents and effects on firm outcomes (2021, background): “A multitude of research has examined the role of entrepreneurs’ human capital such as prior knowledge and experience in innovation (Gruber et al., 2013; Marvel, 2013; Marvel et al., 2020; Tang & Murphy, 2012) with a particular focus on radical innovation (Marvel & Lumpkin, 2007).”