From Opportunity Insight to Opportunity Intention: The Importance of Person–Situation Learning Match

By Dimo Dimov. 2007

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

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The nascent entrepreneurship hub: goals, entrepreneurial self-efficacy and start-up outcomes (2012, background): “An examination of recent individual level entrepreneurship research reveals a range of theoretical and empirical approaches to explain new firm births, often from a process approach (Gelderen et al. 2006; Dimov 2007; Gruber 2007; Teece 2007; Brush et al. 2008; Harper 2008).”
Entrepreneurship, Self-Organization, and Eudaimonic Well-Being: A Dynamic Approach (2021, background): “, more concrete venture idea) wish or desire (Dimov, 2007; Krueger & Carsrud, 1993; Sarasvathy, 2001) to start a venture, based not only on an assessment of the prospects of this desire in relation to one’s resources and superordinate standards, but also on a comparison with one’s other desires and ”
THE PRODUCTION OF ENTREPRENEURIAL OPPORTUNITY: A CONSTRUCTIVIST PERSPECTIVE (SUMMARY) (2010, background): “Entrepreneurship J., 4: 66–84 (2010) DOI: 10.1002/sej possible opportunity in the form of an idea (Dimov, 2007).”
International Entrepreneurship: Exploring the Logic and Utility of Individual Experience through Comparative Reasoning Approaches (2014, background): “Experience, is attained by entrepreneurs through a systematic and proactive process (Dimov, 2007).”
Technology-Market Combinations and the Identification of Entrepreneurial Opportunities: An Investigation of the Opportunity-Individual Nexus (2012, background): “…market represents an opportunity for someone or some firm) is conceptually and empirically separate from deciding whether, when, and how to personally act upon these beliefs (cf. Dimov, 2007a; McMullen & Shepherd, 2006) and from actual efforts to pursue and exploit opportunities (cf. Dimov, 2010).”
Differences in Entrepreneurial Opportunities: The Role of Tacitness and Codification in Opportunity Identification** (2009, background): “For example, recent research suggests opportunity insights are directly related to opportunity identification experiences (Corbett 2005) and the match of learning style demanded by a given situation (Dimov 2007).”
Entrepreneurial Team Cognition: A Review (2015, neutral): “Moreover, as the venture creation process evolves over time (Baron 2007; Dimov 2007; Forbes 1999; Gartner 1985; Shane 2003), prior work has demonstrated that cognitive team processes have a profound impact on the selection (e.g. Parker 2009; Ruef et al. 2003), addition (e.g. Vanaelst et al. 2006)…”
Cognitive Processes of Opportunity Recognition: The Role of Structural Alignment (2010, background): “…has shown that because the distribution of knowledge in society is not uniform, prior knowledge helps to explain why some individuals are able to recognize particular opportunities that others simply fail to see (e.g., Corbett 2005, Dimov 2007b, Fiet 1996, Shane 2000, Shepherd and DeTienne 2005).”
Designing Entrepreneurship Experiments (2017, methodology): “In entrepreneurship research, the study of opportunity identification has focused on questions concerning the attributes of the entrepreneur (Ucbasaran, Westhead, & Wright, 2008) or the attributes of the opportunity (Corbett, 2007; Dimov, 2007; Shepherd & DeTienne, 2005).”
Gender effects on entrepreneurial intention: a meta‐analytical structural equation model (2013, background): “, 1999), learning theory (Dimov, 2007), and social and human capital theory (Langowitz and Minniti, 2007; Davidsson and Honig, 2003).”
Entrepreneurial Imaginativeness in New Venture Ideation (2018, background): “…facilitates the business judgment and willingness to bear uncertainty that is required to shape and develop raw ideas into opportunities (Dimov, 2007a), because it directly supports the process of integrating new with existing knowledge and information (McMullen & Dimov, 2013) necessary…”
The Mind in the Middle: Taking Stock of Affect and Cognition Research in Entrepreneurship (2015, positive): “Among the topics that received the most attention historically, one notes models of entrepreneurial intentions (e.g., Dimov, 2007; Krueger and Carsrud, 1993; Krueger, Reilly & Carsrud, 2000; 2 We thank Jeff McMullen and Andrew Corbett for helping to provide the impetus for this metaphor, many years…”
Friends, Family, or Fools: Entrepreneur Experience and its Implications for Equity Distribution and Resource Mobilization (2012, background): “Here, experience provides a lens to interpret information and relate it to applications for new products or services (Dimov, 2007; Shane, 2000).”
Beyond Affective Valence: Untangling Valence and Activation Influences on Opportunity Identification (2015, background): “Opportunities embody the genesis of a process whereby insightful entrepreneurs with novel ideas bring new products and services into existence (Baron, 2004; Dimov, 2007b; Eckhardt & Shane, 2003).”