The Individual-Opportunity Nexus

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

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Subfields: Business and International Management, Economics and Econometrics, Management of Technology and Innovation

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Unpacking the uncertainty construct: Implications for entrepreneurial action (2011, background): “In fact, the notion that entrepreneurs make decisions and subsequently act in the face of inherently uncertain, even unknowable, futures is one of the most closely held assumptions in entrepreneurship (e.g., Knight, 1921; Shane and Eckhardt, 2003; Sarasvathy et al., 2003).”
The Theory of Knowledge Spillover Entrepreneurship (2007, background): “Similarly, Shane and Eckhardt (2003) show how the cognitive process in reaching the entrepreneurial decision is influenced by a differential access to information sources across individuals.”
Growth Aspirations and Cultural Support for Entrepreneurship: A Comparison of Post-Socialist Countries (2007, background): “With increased attention being focused on the early stages of the entrepreneurship process in recent years, the concept of opportunities has been increasingly used in entrepreneurship research, and perceiving good business opportunities was assumed to be important for entrepreneurship (Kirzner, 1973”
Does venture opportunity variation matter? Investigating systematic process differences between innovative and imitative new ventures (2009, background): “The decision to include them was driven in part by practical considerations for the need to have sample of sufficient size for any significant effects to emerge in the analysis but can be defended also on the ground that the study of entrepreneurship should not be restricted to any particular organi”
Entrepreneurial Discovery as Constrained, Sytematic Search (2008, background): “Entrepreneurs are not equally qualified to discover and exploit a signal because of differences in their prior knowledge ( Shane and Eckhardt, 2003 ).”
Digital Entrepreneurship: Toward a Digital Technology Perspective of Entrepreneurship (2017, background): “Indeed, much of the early literature has focused on issues at the individual-opportunity nexus (Sarason, Dean, & Dillard, 2006; Shane & Eckhardt, 2003) that inherently assumes such a primary role for the individual entrepreneur.”