Solving the Entrepreneurial Puzzle: The Role of Entrepreneurial Interpretation in Opportunity Formation and Related Processes

By Ilídio Barreto. 2012

117 citations recorded by the source corpus.

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

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In Business and International Management

1. Benjamin J. Warnick
2. Matthew S. Wood
3. Jeffery S. McMullen
4. J. Haynie
5. David W. Williams
6. Jana L. Raver
7. I. Chadwick
8. A. McKelvie

In Management of Technology and Innovation

1. Matthew S. Wood
2. David W. Williams
3. A. McKelvie
4. Benjamin J. Warnick
5. Jeffery S. McMullen
6. J. Haynie
7. Jana L. Raver
8. I. Chadwick

In Strategy and Management

1. Matthew S. Wood
2. David W. Williams
3. A. McKelvie
4. Jeffery S. McMullen
5. Benjamin J. Warnick
6. J. Haynie
7. Jana L. Raver
8. I. Chadwick

Citations in the corpus

• Opportunity Evaluation as Rule‐Based Decision Making (2014, background): “Prior work suggests that opportunity evaluation is a conceptually distinct (Dimov, 2007; Tumasjan et al., 2012) and interpretive endeavour (Barreto, 2012) whereby mindful (Corbett and McMullen, 2007) individuals attend to exogenous decision criteria (e.g. technologies, resources, etc.) and apply…”
• Should We Require Every New Venture to Be a Hybrid Organization (2016, background): “Entrepreneurs often seek to create new value under conditions of uncertainty (McMullen and Shepherd, 2006) in which competing frames of reference are used to interpret and value information (Barreto, 2012; McMullen et al., 2008).”
• Psychological Resilience and Its Downstream Effects for Business Survival in Nascent Entrepreneurship (2018, background): “Entrepreneurs only take action toward opportunities that their knowledge structures represent as relevant and meaningful (Barreto, 2012).”
• Entrepreneurial judgment as empathic accuracy: a sequential decision-making approach to entrepreneurial action (2013, background): “Regardless of whether opportunities are conceived of as objective or subjective, they remain interpretations – a categorization of a situation based on whether that situation is instrumental to advancing some goal (Barreto, 2012).”
• Making it personal: : Opportunity individuation and the shaping of opportunity beliefs (2014, background): “In that way, an entrepreneur's judgment regarding the potential value of acting on an opportunity is a future-focused subjective interpretation (Barreto, 2012) influenced by their intuition (Mitchell et al.”