What is an Entrepreneurial Opportunity?

By Jeffery S. McMullen, L. Plummer, Zoltan J. Acs. 2007

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Subfields: Business and International Management, Management of Technology and Innovation, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management

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Entrepreneurship, institutional economics, and economic growth: an ecosystem perspective (2018, neutral): “Central to the entrepreneurship process is not whether opportunities exist but rather, what is done about them and by whom (McMullen et al. 2007).”
Cognitive Processes of Opportunity Recognition: The Role of Structural Alignment (2010, methodology): “In organization research, the technique has been used to study the reasoning strategies of managers and corporate officers (e.g., Isenberg 1986, Melone 1994), the decision processes of investors (e.g., Hall and Hofer 1993, Sarasvathy et al. 1998), the thinking that supports new product ideation…”
National Systems of Entrepreneurship: Measurement issues and policy implications (2014, background): “An entrepreneur’s motivation for tarting a business is an important signal of new venture quality McMullen et al., 2007).”
Entrepreneurship and structural economic transformation (2008, background): “The identification and utilization of opportunities by entrepreneurs have generated a substantial literature (see McMullen et al. 2007).”
Uncertainty Types and Transitions in the Entrepreneurial Process (2017, background): ““Rationality” assumes that options and outcomes are known, from which an optimal choice is made (Miller 2007; see also von Neumann and Morgenstern 1944; Savage 1954; Kahneman and Tversky 1979; Ariely 2009).”
The intrapreneur and innovation in creative firms (2012, background): “In spite of its relevance, the impact of intrapreneurs on their firms’ innovation performance is still not well understood theoretically because the literature remains sparse (Davidsson, 2005; Koellinger, 2008; Koppel, 2007; McMullen et al., 2007).”
Why are some entrepreneurs more innovative than others? (2007, background): “Arguably, a more problematic issue is that we still lack a common understanding of what entrepreneurship, innovation, and opportunity actually mean (Davidsson 2005; Koppl 2007; McMullen et al. 2007 ).”
Entrepreneurial judgment as empathic accuracy: a sequential decision-making approach to entrepreneurial action (2013, background): “Because empathy makes individuals highly sensitive to what others think and feel (Davis, 1983), and because uncertainty prevents the masses from perceiving that a situation represents an opportunity worthy of investment of their time, talent, or treasure (McMullen et al., 2007), it is possible that ”
A systematic literature review of entrepreneurial opportunity recognition: insights on influencing factors (2014, background): “McMullen et al. (2007) Entrepreneurial opportunity • The objectivity of opportunities allows human actors to respond to their incentives provided by an objective environment.”
What Makes an Entrepreneurship Study Entrepreneurial? Toward A Unified Theory of Entrepreneurial Agency (2020, background): “…(Knight, 1921).1 The ability to interpret and respond to uncertainty is often what determines the degree of success or failure achieved by entrepreneurial actions (McMullen et al., 2007), which seek to render future conditions more satisfying than they would have been otherwise (Mises, 1949).”