Opportunities and Entrepreneurship

By Jonathan T. Eckhardt, Scott A. Shane. 2003

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

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A Qualitative Approach to Evidence–Based Entrepreneurship: Theoretical Considerations and an Example Involving Business Clusters (2014, background): “While some authors define opportunities as situations that are recognized by individuals (Eckhardt & Shane, 2003, 2013; Shane & Venkataraman, 2000), others claim that opportunities are created (Alvarez & Barney, 2007).”
Towards a schematic theory of entrepreneurial alertness (2013, neutral): “Much recent research has been devoted to better understand the diverse range of opportunity types and the corresponding entrepreneurial actions (e.g., Eckhardt and Shane, 2003; Sarasvathy et al., 2005).”
Differences in Entrepreneurial Opportunities: The Role of Tacitness and Codification in Opportunity Identification** (2009, background): “For example, the extant literature argues that opportunities differ in expected value (Eckhardt and Shane 2003).”
Engagement in entrepreneurship in emerging economies: Interactive effects of individual-level factors and institutional conditions (2016, background): “Opportunity recognition and evaluation are critical mechanisms that precede the emergence of new businesses (Eckhardt & Shane, 2003; Haynie, Shepherd, & McMullen, 2009).”
Towards a search for the meaning of entrepreneurship (2010, background): “Thus, entrepreneurship as a scholarly field seeks to understand how opportunities, which bring into existence “future” goods and services, are discovered, created, and exploited and by whom (Eckhardt and Shane, 2003; Shane and Venkataraman, 2000; Venkataraman, 1997).”
The value of business planning before start-up — A decision-theoretical perspective (2012, background): “Moreover, by linking the decision maker with the decision problem, the decision-analytic framework overcomes the dichotomy of what Eckhardt and Shane (2003) refer to as the “humantype” and the “opportunity-based” explanations of entrepreneurship.”
Serial entrepreneurship: impact of human capital on time to re-entry (2011, background): “In the same vein, individuals with managerial experience are more likely to have developed the necessary skills to pursue market opportunities and organize new businesses (Bates 1990; Gimeno et al. 1997; Eckhardt and Shane 2003).”
Religious institutions and entrepreneurship (2014, methodology): “This is referred to as the macro approach to entrepreneurship research (Ardichvili et al. 2003; Eckhardt and Shane 2003; Shane and Venkataraman 2000; Venkataraman 1997).”
Entrepreneurial judgment as empathic accuracy: a sequential decision-making approach to entrepreneurial action (2013, background): “…and exploited entrepreneurial opportunities, which they defined as ‘those situations in which new goods, services, raw materials, and organizing methods can be introduced and sold at greater than their costs of production’ (Casson, 1982; Eckhardt and Shane, 2003; Shane and Venkataraman, 2000: 220).”
Technology Push and Demand Pull Perspectives in Innovation Studies: Current Findings and Future Research Directions (2012, background): “Entrepreneurship research has started to focus its attention on a new, active relationship between the firm and its external environment, calling for the need to focus on opportunities created by supply-driven as well as demand-driven changes (Eckhardt and Shane, 2003).”
Differences between Men and Women in Opportunity Evaluation as a Function of Gender Stereotypes and Stereotype Activation (2013, background): “…the knowledge of processes underlying Figure 1 Effect of Stereotype Activation on Opportunity Evaluation 780 ENTREPRENEURSHIP THEORY and PRACTICE variations in the evaluation of business opportunities (Eckhardt & Shane, 2003) as well as the activation of gender stereotypes (Wheeler & Petty, 2001).”