Three Views of Entrepreneurial Opportunity

By S. Sarasvathy, Nicholas Dew, S. Velamuri, Sankaran Venkataraman. 2003

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Entrepreneurship at Country Level: Economic and Non-Economic Determinants (2006, background): “79 This paragraph is inspired by Sarasvathy et al., 2003. 80 See Van Gelderen (2004), chapters 2 and 3, for an elaboration.”
The Concept of International Opportunity in International Entrepreneurship: A Review and a Research Agenda (2014, positive): “Both supply and demand exist, but an entrepreneur needs to recognize the opportunity to put them together (Ardichvili et al. 2003; Eckhardt and Shane 2003; Sarasvathy et al. 2003).”
The Importance of Slack for New Organizations Facing ‘Tough’ Environments (2010, background): “Opportunities are situations or conditions that are favourable to goal attainment (Sarasvathy et al., 2003).”
The Domain of Entrepreneurship Research: Some Suggestions (2003, background): “…its recent popularity and apparent centrality to entrepreneurship (de Koning, 1999b; Eckhardt & Shane, 2003; Gaglio, 1997; Hills & Shrader, 1998; Sarasvathy et al., 2003; Shane & Venkataraman, 2000), there is reason to question whether " opportunity " really is a very useful concept for…”
Does venture opportunity variation matter? Investigating systematic process differences between innovative and imitative new ventures (2009, background): “often referred to as ‘the opportunity’ in the extant literature (see, e.g., de Koning 2003; Dimov 2004; Gaglio 1997; Sarasvathy et al. 2003; Shane 2000; Shane and Venkataraman 2000).”
Bridging Behavioral Models and Theoretical Concepts: Effectuation and Bricolage in the Opportunity Creation Framework (2016, neutral): “considered the implications of the effectuation process within the context of an emerging dialogue about the nature of opportunity (Sarasvathy et al., 2003; Sarasvathy, 2004; Sarasvathy et al., 2014), concluding that ‘opportunities were often endogenous to and artifacts of the effectual process’ (Sa”
Capital Is Not Enough: Innovation in Developing Economies (2012, background): “The entrepreneur is, in effect, taking known sources of supply to unknown sources of demand, unknown sources of supply to known sources of demand, or creating demand by making people aware of supply (Sarasvathy et al., 2003).”
Entrepreneurs, Effectual Logic, and Over–Trust (2006, background): “The effectual approach to decision making is especially relevant in entrepreneurial settings where uncertainty is the order of the day, where markets are nonexistent and where opportunities are not merely recognized but created ( Sarasvathy, Dew, Velamuri, & Venkataraman, 2003 ).”
Tourism Entrepreneurship – Review and Future Directions (2015, background): “Recent theorising in entrepreneurship has focused on entrepreneurial opportunities and how they come into existence (Sarasvathy et al., 2011) as well as on entrepreneurial behaviour (Dew, Read, Sarasvathy, & Wiltbank, 2008; Wright & Marlow, 2012).”
Making sense of the elusive paradigm of entrepreneurship (2015, background): “Thus, this view tends to have a focus on why some businesses or individuals engage in such behavior, while others do not (Sarasvathy et al. 2003; Dew et al. 2004).”
Conceptualising entrepreneurship in a transition context (2006, background): “A Kirznerian perspective draws attention to the interplay of ideas, beliefs and actions in defining and creating opportunities defying a simplistic view (Sarasvathy et al., 2003).”
Unpacking the uncertainty construct: Implications for entrepreneurial action (2011, background): “For example, consider that Sarasvathy's (2001) notion of effectual reasoning is based on the proposition that entrepreneurs do not attempt to predict an unknowable future but actually create their own future through their own actions, knowledge, skills, and available means (Sarasvathy et al., 2003).”
Toward a theory of sustainable entrepreneurship: Reducing environmental degradation through entrepreneurial action (2007, background): “For the most part, authors have followed Kirzner’s approach and focused primarily upon information asymmetries across producers regarding the nature of demand or the means of supply (Sarasvathy et al., 2003).”