Cognitive Processes of Opportunity Recognition: The Role of Structural Alignment

By Denis A. Grégoire, Pamela S. Barr, Dean A. Shepherd. Organ. Sci., 2010

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Subfields: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Management of Technology and Innovation, Strategy and Management

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Citations in the corpus

Creating the Future Together: Toward a Framework for Research Synthesis in Entrepreneurship (2014, background): “The underlying submechanism—explaining the cognitive framing mechanism—is that prior knowledge and experience facilitate recognizing patterns from snippets of information and “connecting the dots” to ideate, identify, and evaluate a meaningful opportunity (Baron & Ensley, 2006; Grégoire et al., 2010”
Entrepreneurs' dispositional positive affect: The potential benefits – and potential costs – of being “up” (2012, background): “Since these processes play an important role in many aspects of new venture creation (Gregoire et al., 2010), we suggest that it is important to direct careful attention to them, and especially to the potential detrimental effects of DPA.”
Recognizing Opportunities across Campus: The Effects of Cognitive Training and Entrepreneurial Passion on the Business Opportunity Prototype (2018, methodology): “The idea that opportunities arise from changes in an environment (Baron 2006; Gr egoire, Barr, and Shepherd 2010) underlines the importance of acquiring information and knowledge in the opportunity recognition process.”
Entrepreneurial judgment as empathic accuracy: a sequential decision-making approach to entrepreneurial action (2013, background): “Within the context of entrepreneurial action, these goals have been conceptualized as opportunity beliefs (Gregoire et al., 2010a, 2010b; McMullen and Shepherd, 2006).”
The Impact of Role Identities on Entrepreneurs’ Evaluation and Selection of Opportunities (2017, background): “It was important that the coding scheme reflected lines of reasoning common across participants and not “idiosyncratic variations that would be specific to the particular thoughts of each participant” (Grégoire et al., 2010: 419).”
Opportunities and institutions: A co-creation story of the king crab industry (2015, background): “…that opportunities are not formed in a singular “ah ha” moment but instead the result of both purposeful and emergent action by entrepreneurs (Alvarez and Barney, 2007; Alvarez et al., 2013; Buenstorf, 2007; Dimov, 2010; Garud and Karnoe, 2003; Gregoire et al., 2010; Sarasvathy, 2001).”
The “heart” of entrepreneurship: The impact of entrepreneurial action on health and health on entrepreneurial action (2015, background): “It could be that experiencing health problems motivate the sort of cognitive processes (e.g., analogical thinking (Grégoire et al., 2010; Gregoire and Shepherd, 2012)) and/or perseverance in identifying an opportunity.”
Opportunity Evaluation as Rule‐Based Decision Making (2014, methodology): “One, we developed our conjoint following best practices in the field (cf. Priem et al., 2011; Shepherd, 2011), and we based the conjoint experiment on an actual bona-fide opportunity, as presented by Columbia University (cf. Grégoire et al., 2010).”
Making it personal: : Opportunity individuation and the shaping of opportunity beliefs (2014, background): “At the level of the individual entrepreneur, these considerations ultimately coalesce into beliefs about the potential value and viability of opportunities (Grégoire et al., 2010b; Haynie et al., 2009).”
Making the Most of Failure Experiences: Exploring the Relationship between Business Failure and the Identification of Business Opportunities (2016, background): “Like Gregoire et al. (2010), one of the vignettes incorporated a description of a new technology called three-dimensional printing (3DP), a technology also studied by Shane (2000).”