The Nature of Entrepreneurial Opportunities: Understanding the Process Using the 4I Organizational Learning Framework

By D. Dutta, Mary M. Crossan. 2005

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Subfields: Management of Technology and Innovation, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Strategy and Management

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Product Innovation and Educational Diversity in Top and Middle Management Teams (2020, background): “Dutta and Crossan (2005) for example argue that learning takes place in two differentiated processes.”
Prior knowledge and social networks in the exploitation of entrepreneurial opportunities (2010, background): “The role of prior knowledge and learning in the identification of entrepreneurial opportunities has received consistent attention in the literature (e.g. Corbett 2005; Dimov 2007; Dutta and Crossan 2005; Lumpkin and Lichtenstein 2005; Politis 2005; Smith et al. 2009; Ucbasaran et al. 2009) but not m”
Time and the Entrepreneurial Journey: The Problems and Promise of Studying Entrepreneurship as a Process (2013, background): “…integration that begins with an individual, but eventually involves multiple agents who must engage in a social negotiation about what, if anything, the information means to them and, in many cases, what they believe it will mean to others (Corbett, 2005; Dimov, 2007; Dutta and Crossan, 2005).”
The Concept of “Opportunity” in Entrepreneurship Research: Past Accomplishments and Future Challenges (2010, background): “Dutta and Crossan (2005) note that intuiting, interpreting, integrating, and institutionalizing are organizational learning processes that are necessary for discovering, developing, and implementing entrepreneurial opportunities.”
Explaining Discontinuity in Organizational Learning: A Process Analysis (2010, background): “Organizational learning unfolds over time, but the role of time and timing in organizational learning processes has received little attention so far (Dutta and Crossan 2005: 444).”
Stakeholder engagement for responsible innovation in the private sector: critical issues and management practices (2015, background): “Business opportunities then arise from an entrepreneur’s alertness to the information asymmetries in the market (Dutta and Crossan, 2005).”
Ambidexterity and organizational learning: revisiting and reconnecting the literatures (2019, background): “Multiple scholars have adopted and further extended the 4i framework: it has been tested in empirical studies (Crossan and Berdrow, 2003) and it has been extended to entrepreneurial processes (Dutta and Crossan, 2005).”
Entrepreneurial opportunity recognition: an empirical study of R&D personnel (2013, background): “Although prior research has explicated how entrepreneurs engage in exploiting and identifying opportunities, the Entrepreneurial opportunity recognition phenomenon is still poorly understood (Dutta and Crossan, 2005).”
Review of skill and the entrepreneurial process (2013, background): “Furthermore, the conceptual framework and assumptions made by different proponents of opportunity recognition theory differ significantly (e.g. Carolis and Saparito, 2006; Dutta and Crossan, 2005; Gaglio and Katz, 2001; Park, 2005; Shane, 2003).”