Prior Knowledge, Potential Financial Reward, and Opportunity Identification

By Dean A. Shepherd, Dawn R. DeTienne. 2005

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Subfields: Business and International Management, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Strategy and Management

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Differences between Men and Women in Opportunity Evaluation as a Function of Gender Stereotypes and Stereotype Activation (2013, background): “…intrinsic elements such as self-fulfillment; independence; and desire for wealth, status, or power, whereas push factors are aspects of necessity such as insufficient family income, difficulty in finding gainful employment, and the need for flexible work schedule (Shepherd & DeTienne, 2005).”
Bridging Behavioral Models and Theoretical Concepts: Effectuation and Bricolage in the Opportunity Creation Framework (2016, neutral): “Conjoint research designs similar to Shepherd and DeTienne (2005) and DeTienne and Chandler (2007) could be used to further examine the nature of effectuation, untangling whether it is a learned process of the expert entrepreneur (Sarasvathy, 2001) or a general purpose decision-making schema…”
Nascent Entrepreneurs and Venture Emergence: Opportunity Confidence, Human Capital, and Early Planning (2010, background): “While some research has focused on the recognition of and intention to pursue opportunities (Corbett, 2007; Dimov, 2007a; Shane, 2000; Shepherd and DeTienne, 2005), beginning to pursue an opportunity is by no means a sufficient and reliable predictor that a venture will ultimately emerge; rather,…”
Entrepreneurs' dispositional positive affect: The potential benefits – and potential costs – of being “up” (2012, background): “…to illustrate the potential role of these detrimental effects in the domain of entrepreneurship, their relevance to an activity found, in previous research, to be strongly related to new venture success – product innovation – is discussed (Brown and Eisenhardt, 1995; Shepherd and DeTienne, 2005).”
The Importance of Being Emotional : How do Emotions Affect Entrepreneurial Opportunity Evaluation and Exploitation? (2010, background): “…Ardichvili et al., 2003; Baron, 2006; Shane, 2003), However, opportunity recognition is a process that is not only characterized by creative thinking (Knight, 2005), but also by the access to information via life experience (Shepherd and DeTienne, 2005) and social networks (Evald and Klyver, 2006).”
The Cognitive Perspective in Entrepreneurship: An Agenda for Future Research (2011, positive): “Many studies have shown that prior knowledge is a primary factor explaining why some individuals are able to identify opportunities that others could not think of (cf. Corbett, 2005; Shane, 2000; Shepherd and DeTienne, 2005).”
Beyond the Single-Person, Single-Insight Attribution in Understanding Entrepreneurial Opportunities (2007, background): “Yet, while there is evidence that the promise of financial reward induces a higher number of ideas (Shepherd & DeTienne, 2005), the evidence for its leading to more creative ideas has been mixed at best.”
The Impact of Role Identities on Entrepreneurs’ Evaluation and Selection of Opportunities (2017, methodology): “First, prior knowledge is a vital antecedent to opportunity identification (Ardichvili, Cardozo, & Ray, 2003; Shane, 2000; Shepherd & DeTienne, 2005).”
The Concept of “Opportunity” in Entrepreneurship Research: Past Accomplishments and Future Challenges (2010, background): “Shepherd and DeTienne (2005) find that the prior knowledge of customer problems directly affects the quantity and quality of opportunities identified.”
Antecedents of Business Opportunity Identification and Innovation: Investigating the Interplay of Information Processing and Information Acquisition (2014, background): “Business Opportunity Identification 15 Shepherd and DeTienne (2005) support this reasoning by providing evidence for a strong relationship between number and innovativeness of identified opportunities.”
The ‘Teachability Dilemma’ of entrepreneurship (2011, background): “More recent research has associated entrepreneurship with team building and leadership (Hindle 2004), overconfidence (Forbes 2005; Shane 2004), susceptibility for pecuniary reward (Shepherd and DeTienne 2005) as well as stress tolerance (Rauch and Frese 2007).”
International entrepreneurship: A critical analysis of studies in the past two decades and future directions for research (2012, background): “These constructs are found to be a robust measure of explaining entrepreneurial actions (Baum and Locke 2004; Baum et al. 2001; Erikson 2002; Ardichvili et al. 2003; Forbes 2005; Shepherd and DeTienne 2005; Zahra et al. 2005; McGee et al. 2009).”