Nascent Entrepreneurs and Venture Emergence: Opportunity Confidence, Human Capital, and Early Planning

By Dimo Dimov. 2010

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Subfields: Accounting, Economics and Econometrics, Management of Technology and Innovation

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Grappling with the Unbearable Elusiveness of Entrepreneurial Opportunities (2011, background): “Thus, an overarching construct should be developed and operationalized that gauges the entrepreneur’s evolving confidence or beliefs in the opportunity at hand (Dimov, 2010; Gregoire, Shepherd, et al., 2010).”
Understanding the Dynamics of Nascent Entrepreneurship—Prestart‐Up Experience, Intentions, and Entrepreneurial Success (2015, background): ““Start-up commitment” refers to the entrepreneurs’ willingness to exert effort in the venture creation process to make the venture work (Carsrud and Brännback 2011; Dimov 2010).”
Signalling entrepreneurs’ credibility and project quality for crowdfunding success: cases from the Kickstarter and Indiegogo environments (2021, background): “The relevant industry experience allows entrepreneurs to develop a deep understanding of how the industry works (Dimov, 2010; Kotha & George, 2012), as well as how to forecast and navigate the resources and tasks required in managing a project (Cassar, 2006).”
Emergence of entrepreneurial behaviour: The role of age-based self-image (2015, background): “…the individual to engage in knowledge-acquisition activities – makes them more likely to be certain in successfully exploiting opportunities, and particularly to avoid pursuing start-up opportunities that lack promise and realise the ones that hold promise (Dimov, 2010; Mitchell & Shepherd, 2010).”
Building networks into discovery: The link between entrepreneur network capability and entrepreneurial opportunity discovery (2018, background): “…the internal knowledge of entrepreneurs influences their recognition of opportunities, such as prior knowledge or experience (Baron & Ensley, 2006; Dimov, 2010; Ucbasaran, Westhead, & Wright, 2009), creativity (Gielnik, Frese, Graf, & Kampschulte, 2012; Shane & Nicolaou, 2015), and cognitive…”
Organizational Social Capital, Formalization, and Internal Knowledge Sharing in Entrepreneurial Orientation Formation (2013, background): “…by the cross-fertilization of knowledge across functional areas makes firms more efficient in comparing the relative strengths and weaknesses of different pathways to entrepreneurship, increasing confidence that current knowledge can be effectively applied to the selected alternative (Dimov, 2010).”
The influence of socio-cultural environments on the performance of nascent entrepreneurs: Community culture, motivation, self-efficacy and start-up success (2012, methodology): “However, combining the relevant questions available in PSED II results in a satisfactory Cronbach’s alpha of 0.71, comparable to Dimov (2010).”
Institutional support and women’s entrepreneurial self-efficacy (2017, background): “, 2001), persistence (Cardon and Kirk, 2015), opportunity confidence (Dimov, 2010), entrepreneurial intentions (Bullough et al.”
Creating the Future Together: Toward a Framework for Research Synthesis in Entrepreneurship (2014, background): “…(Smith, Matthews, & Schenkel, 2008; Ucbasaran et al., 2007, 2009; Westhead, Ucbasaran, & Wright, 2009) or lead to more innovative ones (Shepherd & DeTienne, 2005), while industry experience makes it more likely that people act upon perceived opportunities and start a venture (Dimov, 2010).”
Exploring the intention–behavior link in student entrepreneurship: Moderating effects of individual and environmental characteristics (2016, background): “Prior experience provides individuals with valuable contextual knowledge that may help bridge the entrepreneurial intention-action gap (Dimov, 2010).”
Dynamic Managerial Capabilities (2015, background): “Seven other studies in Tables 2 through 4 incorporated measures of managerial cognition rather than social capital, including “opportunity confidence,” defined as the beliefs of entrepreneurs about the feasibility and future success of new ventures (Dimov, 2010); CEO “metacognitition,” defined as “t”
Entrepreneurial personality: The role of narcissism (2013, background): “Self-efficacy has been identified in the literature as one of the main components of intentions to start a business (Chen et al., 1998) and the subsequent start-up (Dimov, 2010).”
Making it personal: : Opportunity individuation and the shaping of opportunity beliefs (2014, background): “These insights illustrate the subjective nature of opportunity pursuit, and help explain why opportunities are not equally appealing to all (Dimov, 2010).”
Time and the Entrepreneurial Journey: The Problems and Promise of Studying Entrepreneurship as a Process (2013, methodology): “Thus, to use a typical example of theorizing from Dimov (2010), human capital contributes to performance by (1) providing valuable lessons to entrepreneurs for dealing with customers, suppliers, and other stakeholders, (2) making more elaborate decisions, (3) identifying essential sources of…”