An Opportunity for Me? The Role of Resources in Opportunity Evaluation Decisions

By J. Haynie, Dean A. Shepherd, Jeffery S. McMullen. 2009

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Subfields: Accounting, Finance, Management of Technology and Innovation

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Engagement in entrepreneurship in emerging economies: Interactive effects of individual-level factors and institutional conditions (2016, methodology): “…through which entrepreneurs evaluate the attractiveness of an opportunity in terms of its potential benefits to them; at this stage, the specific opportunity tends to take a firstperson perspective (i.e., an opportunity “for me”) instead of a more general third-person view (Haynie et al., 2009).”
The Impact of Role Identities on Entrepreneurs’ Evaluation and Selection of Opportunities (2017, background): “Our study recasts the entrepreneur from a singularly driven individual who selects opportunities on the basis of knowledge and resource alignment (Haynie et al., 2009; McMullen & Shepherd, 2006) to an eclectically driven individual who selects opportunities on the basis of the goals associated with…”
The Cognitive Perspective in Entrepreneurship: An Agenda for Future Research (2011, unknown): “…studying the consequences of entrepreneurs’ thoughts, interpretations, and reasoning abilities (e.g. Busenitz and Barney, 1997; Gatewood et al., 1995; Haynie et al., 2009) to documenting the multi-level dynamics that lead to the emergence of opportunities and new ventures in a particular field or…”
Fear of failure as a mediator of the relationship between obstacles and nascent entrepreneurial activity—An experimental approach ☆ (2017, background): “Haynie et al. (2009) argue that in the evaluation process, nascent entrepreneurs scan their business environments for cues indicating whether or not the opportunity has the potential to generate a competitive advantage and benefit the future firm.”
Making it personal: : Opportunity individuation and the shaping of opportunity beliefs (2014, methodology): “Specifically, when entrepreneurs evaluate opportunities that are highly related to what they know, interpretations of the meaning of industry conditions are more positively influenced because entrepreneurs have additional insight they can use to add detail to their mental image of the opportunity (C”
Entrepreneurial mindset shift and the role of cycles of learning (2021, background): “For instance, as an entrepreneur learns from market interactions that their opportunity is both novel and rare (Haynie et al., 2009; Wood & Williams, 2014) and that the window of opportunity might be closing (Choi & Shepherd, 2004) it might be beneficial for them to shift from an elaboration mindset”
The Resource‐Based View in Entrepreneurship: A Content‐Analytical Comparison of Researchers' and Entrepreneurs' Views (2016, background): “As such, an RBV for entrepreneurship needs to recognize the individual decision-maker (see also Haynie, Shepherd, and McMullen 2009; Kemmerer et al. 2011).”
Action! Moving beyond the intendedly-rational logics of entrepreneurship (2018, background): “evaluation is a precursor to entrepreneurial action (e.g. McMullen & Shepherd, 2006; Haynie et al., 2009).”
Entrepreneurial Imaginativeness in New Venture Ideation (2018, background): “To illustrate, in a study of entrepreneurs evaluating a series of opportunities, Haynie et al. (2009) found that entrepreneurs logically assess existing resource endowments as well as potential future resources that could be marshalled to exploit the opportunity.”
Thinking About Entrepreneurial Decision Making (2015, background): “Similarly, Haynie, Shepherd, and McMullen (2009) proposed that opportunity evaluation policies are constructed as future-oriented cognitive representations of “what will be,” assuming one were to exploit the opportunity under evaluation.”