Forming and Exploiting Opportunities: The Implications of Discovery and Creation Processes for Entrepreneurial and Organizational Research

By Sharon A. Alvarez, Jay B. Barney, Philip Anderson. Organ. Sci., 2013

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Subfields: Accounting, Business and International Management, Management of Technology and Innovation

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Opportunities and institutions: A co-creation story of the king crab industry (2015, background): “…are not pre-determined but instead the outcome of a socially constructed iterative enactment process between entrepreneurs and other actors under conditions of uncertainty (Alvarez and Barney, 2007; Alvarez et al., 2013; Garud and Karnoe, 2003; Sarasvathy, 2001; Wood and McKinley, 2010).”
Turning Lead into Gold: How Do Entrepreneurs Mobilize Resources to Exploit Opportunities? (2018, unknown): “To date, a significant and established body of theory conceptualizes the phenomenon of entrepreneurial opportunities (Alvarez, Barney, & Anderson, 2013).”
Uncertainty Types and Transitions in the Entrepreneurial Process (2017, background): “For example, a “discovery” of opportunities (Shane 2012) may be understood where the entrepreneur perceives risk or ambiguity, whereas the “creation” of opportunities (Alvarez et al. 2013) might result from a perceived creative uncertainty context.”
Enrolling Stakeholders under Conditions of Risk and Uncertainty (2016, background): “…is likely that this research will include both quantitative and qualitative dimensions—the quantitative to measure, for example, the outcomes of the enrollment process, and the qualitative to examine the process of enrollment (Alvarez, Barney, and Anderson, 2013; Alvarez, Young, and Woolley, 2015).”
The Right People in the Wrong Places: The Paradox of Entrepreneurial Entry and Successful Opportunity Realization (2015, background): “Successful opportunity realization occurs when entrepreneurs enact their proposed product or service offerings in ways consistent with their original vision, ultimately becoming “part of the socially constructed reality of the society in which the entrepreneur lives” (Alvarez et al., 2013).”
International entrepreneurship: The pursuit of entrepreneurial opportunities across national borders (2018, background): “The premise of much of this research is that entrepreneurs recognize and seek to exploit opportunities – market imperfections – that arise from exogenous shocks such as technological advances or regulatory changes (Alvarez et al., 2013).”
Integrating Discovery and Creation Perspectives of Entrepreneurial Action: The Relative Roles of Founding CEO Human Capital, Social Capital, and Psychological Capital in Contexts of Risk Versus Uncertainty (2015, background): “…a discovery context is characterized by risk, information is available for making calculated deci- sions regarding the probability that exploiting given opportunities will lead to successful outcomes; further, the means for so doing are relatively transparent (Alvarez, Barney, and Anderson, 2012).”
Entrepreneurship, Self-Organization, and Eudaimonic Well-Being: A Dynamic Approach (2021, background): “The unique quality of entrepreneurship underscored by the self- organizing view is thus not the existence of opportunities to create profit (Alvarez et al., 2013; Ardichvili et al., 2003; Davidsson, 2015; Shane & Venkataraman, 2000), but rather that of opportunities for individuals to explore and ex”
Digital Technologies as External Enablers of New Venture Creation in the IT Hardware Sector (2018, methodology): “…2015, p. 689) Third, our approach also introduces a way to integrate consideration of technologies and other objective, actor-independent factors into process-oriented theorizing, where systematic attention to such factors has been lacking (Alvarez, Barney, & Anderson, 2013; Wood & McKinley, 2010).”
Knowledge-intensive innovative entrepreneurship integrating Schumpeter, evolutionary economics, and innovation systems (2020, background): “These debates include whether opportunities are created or discovered (Alvarez et al. 2013; Ardichvili et al. 2003), whether entrepreneurs grasp existing opportunities or create new ones (Shane 2000; Buenstorf 2007), the extent to which new firms can challenge incumbents and transform the economic s”
Digital Entrepreneurship: Toward a Digital Technology Perspective of Entrepreneurship (2017, background): “…streams in entrepreneurship—for example, entrepreneurial uncertainty (McKelvie et al., 2011; McMullen & Shepherd, 2006), opportunity creation (Alvarez et al., 2013), effectuation (Sarasvathy, 2001), narratives (Garud et al., 2014; Garud & Giuliani, 2013), entrepreneurial cognition (Gregoire…”
To Shape or Adapt: Knowledge Problems, Epistemologies, and Strategic Postures under Knightian Uncertainty (2020, background): “Whereas scholars have agreed that under KU, neither the “‘right and wrong’ answers,”nor “what should and shouldnot be learned” are clear (Alvarez, Afuah, & Gibson (2018: 171), much disagreement remains about the nature of the knowledgeproblemsandthemeansavailable to strategistsand entrepreneurs to a”
Toward An Integration of the Behavioral and Cognitive Influences on the Entrepreneurship Process (2016, methodology): “…either when exogenous environmental shocks lead to objective environmental changes or when entrepreneurs, who all possess prior knowledge and information, perceive new beliefs through imagination and developing new associations among their knowledge (Alvarez and Barney, 2007; Alvarez et al., 2013).”
Planned Luck: How Incubators Can Facilitate Serendipity for Nascent Entrepreneurs Through Fostering Network Embeddedness (2020, background): “This, in turn, assumes a context is risky (rather than uncertain) and that relatively clear (as opposed to ambiguous) goals are pertinent (Alvarez & Barney, 2007; Alvarez et al., 2013).”
Bridging Behavioral Models and Theoretical Concepts: Effectuation and Bricolage in the Opportunity Creation Framework (2016, unknown): “…DOI: 10.1002/sej things besides human action and exogenous shocks to form opportunities, leading some to suggest that institutions (Miller, 2008; Alvarez, Barney, and Anderson, 2013; Alvarez et al., 2015) or collectives (Foreman, Westgren, and Whetten, 2013; Hofherr and Westgren, 2014) are…”
Where did interpretivism go in the theory of entrepreneurship (2017, background): “…from the functionalist paradigm have resulted in a spectrum of definitions, the most prominent being the creation of new enterprise (Low and MacMillan, 1988) and “the discovery, evaluation, and exploitation of opportunities” (Shane and Venkataraman, 2000, p. 218; cf. Alvarez et al., 2013).”