FROM CONCEPTION TO BIRTH: OPPORTUNITY PERCEPTION AND RESOURCE MOBILIZATION IN ENTREPRENEURSHIP

By Jesper B. Sørensen, Olav Sorenson. 2003

117 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Accounting, Management of Technology and Innovation, Strategy and Management

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In Accounting

1. Matthew S. Wood
2. Saurav Pathak
3. A. McKelvie
4. Karl J. Wennberg
5. Jesper B. Sørensen
6. Erkko Autio
7. J. Haynie
8. Johan Wiklund

In Management of Technology and Innovation

1. Saurav Pathak
2. Matthew S. Wood
3. A. McKelvie
4. Karl J. Wennberg
5. Jesper B. Sørensen
6. Erkko Autio
7. J. Haynie
8. Martin Ruef

In Strategy and Management

1. Matthew S. Wood
2. Saurav Pathak
3. A. McKelvie
4. Karl J. Wennberg
5. J. Haynie
6. Jesper B. Sørensen
7. Erkko Autio
8. Boris N. Nikolaev

Citations in the corpus

• How culture moulds the effects of self-efficacy and fear of failure on entrepreneurship (2013, background): “Entrepreneurs need both a societal setting that allows for deviance and playfulness (Hjorth 2004) and a social fabric that facilities resource mobilization (Sørensen and Sorenson 2003).”
• Bureaucracy and Entrepreneurship: Workplace Effects on Entrepreneurial Entry (2007, background): “…expect that sociological theories of entrepreneurship should not include explaining why some people respond to opportunities while others do not (Shane and Venkataraman, 2000), or why some individuals try to pursue entrepreneurial opportunities that may not be there (Sørensen and Sorenson, 2003).”
• The myth of the risk-tolerant entrepreneur (2004, background): “Research suggests that entrepreneurs actively sample the performance of other entrepreneurs and then update their beliefs about the likelihood of success in creating a new venture in the local environment (Sorensen and Sorenson, 2003).”
• Social Capital and the Growth of the Nonprofit Sector (2005, unknown): “…and skills networks (Marrett, 1980) and various ''agglomeration externalities'' that come with the concentration of specialized employees, information diffusion, reduced wages, and geographically concentrated ''entrepreneurial incubators'' (Sorenson and Audia, 2000; Srensen and Sorenson, 2003).”
• Entrepreneurship, Subjectivism, and the Resource-Based View: Towards a New Synthesis (2008, unknown): “Since the alertness concept is, perhaps, best known in management (Ardichvili, Cardozo, and Ray, 2003; Busenitz, 1996; Sorensen and Sorenson, 2003; Venkataraman, 1997), we briefl y consider the concept of alertness 5 Note that describing individuals’ behavior as purposeful and goal oriented (Bird, 1”
• Regional influences on the prevalence of family versus non-family start-ups (2014, unknown): “Third, geographical proximity to other small businesses exposes founders to entrepreneurial role models (Stuart and Sorenson, 2003), which affect individuals' likelihood of imitating the role models' behavior (Krueger et al., 2000).”
• The effect of clusters on the survival and performance of new firms (2010, unknown): “Locally increased ease of entry and exaggerated expectations of success would therefore account for cluster formation ( Sorensen and Sorenson 2003 ).”
• Making it personal: : Opportunity individuation and the shaping of opportunity beliefs (2014, background): “More poignantly, Sorenson and Sorenson (2003) specifically document the role information on population dynamics can play in determining opportunity perceptions.6 On the practice side, there are a number of leading entrepreneurship books that clearly state entrepreneurs should carefully consider…”