Strategic Entrepreneurs at Work: The Nature, Discovery, and Exploitation of Entrepreneurial Opportunities

By Y. E. Companys, Jeffery S. McMullen. 2007

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

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Employee‐driven innovation: extending the license to foster innovation (2010, background): “And there is convincing evidence that managers do indeed make intensive use of their opportunities (Companys and McMullen, 2007), particularly in the case of innovations.”
Grappling with the Unbearable Elusiveness of Entrepreneurial Opportunities (2011, background): “…a stream of continuously developed and modified ideas (Davidsson, 2003; Dimov, 2007b); an opportunity cannot be separated from the individual (Companys & McMullen, 2007; Dimov, 2007a; Sarason, Dean, & Dillard, 2006); an opportunity is intertwined with individual beliefs (McMullen & Shepherd,…”
The Theory of Knowledge Spillover Entrepreneurship (2007, background): “…a number of valuable insights, such as the importance social networks, education and training, and familial influence (Acs and Audretsch, 2003), Companys and McMullen (2007), warn that, ‘Despite the advances and the importance of entrepreneurial opportunities to strategy and entrepreneurship,…”
Prior knowledge and social networks in the exploitation of entrepreneurial opportunities (2010, background): “Finally, the way the author understands the emergence of the opportunity (creation or discovery) will lead him or her to define the identification, evaluation and subsequent exploitation of the opportunity differently (Companys and McMullen 2007).”
Should We Require Every New Venture to Be a Hybrid Organization (2016, background): “Entrepreneurship can reform such market conditions by liberating customers from having to settle for product solutions that are no longer optimal (Companys and McMullen, 2007; Rindova et al., 2009).”
Entrepreneurial Behavior: Firm Organizing Processes (2010, background): “occurs, as well as the beginnings of specifying the value of the concept of opportunity to entrepreneurial studies (Alvarez & Barney, 2007; Buenstorf, 2007; Casson & Wadeson, 2007; Companys & McMullen, 2007; Gaglio & Katz, 2001; McMullen et al., 2007; Plummer et al., 2007; Shane, 2000; Shane & Ven”
Time and the Entrepreneurial Journey: The Problems and Promise of Studying Entrepreneurship as a Process (2013, background): “The opportunity to satiate (partly and temporarily) this desire comes from new circumstances that offer new means or new ways of understanding existing means (Companys and McMullen, 2007; McMullen, Plummer, and Acs, 2007).”
National Systems of Entrepreneurship: Measurement issues and policy implications (2014, background): “…process is not whether or not opportunities exist (in the absence of ‘objective’ opportunities, entrepreneurs can always create their own (Alvarez and Barney, 2007)), but rather, what is done about them and by whom (Companys and McMullen, 2007; Shane, 2003; Shane and Venkataraman, 2000).”
Entrepreneurial judgment as empathic accuracy: a sequential decision-making approach to entrepreneurial action (2013, background): “Although McMullen explores the subject further in subsequent papers (see Companys and McMullen, 2007; McMullen et al., 2007), Klein (2008) suggests that this misses the point and is later joined by Foss to argue that ‘[t]he notion of “opportunity” is metaphorical, not literal, and emphasis on…”
Delineating the Domain of Development Entrepreneurship: A Market–Based Approach to Facilitating Inclusive Economic Growth (2011, background): “A change in supply, demand, or both is necessary for the emergence of entrepreneurial opportunities (Companys & McMullen, 2007; Sarasvathy, Dew, Velamuri, & Venkataraman, 2003).”
Insights and New Directions from Demand-Side Approaches to Technology Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Strategic Management Research (2012, background): “This suggests that demands from customers or markets that lead to entrepreneurial opportunities can come from a variety of sources (Cohen & Winn, 2007; Companys & McMullen, 2007).”