Entrepreneurial alertness in the pursuit of new opportunities

By Jintong Tang, K. Kacmar, Lowell W. Busenitz. 2012

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Subfields: Accounting, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Management of Technology and Innovation

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Opportunity recognition and SME performance: the mediating effect of business model innovation (2017, background): “As small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs)rely heavily on recognizing opportunities to survive and succeed, opportunity recognition has a pro- found impact on SME performance (e.g., Gielnik et al., 2012; Tang et al., 2012).”
The dualistic regulatory effect of passion on the relationship between fear of failure and negative affect: Insights from facial expression analysis (2020, background): “These negative affective experiences can be detrimental because negative affect has been found to reduce opportunity recognition (PerrySmith and Coff, 2011; Tang et al., 2012), evaluation, and exploitation (Foo, 2011; Grichnik et al.”
Entrepreneurial alertness as a pathway to strategic decisions and organizational performance (2018, methodology): “Subsequent work has expanded on Kirzner’s early and later conceptions of EA (e.g. Busenitz, 1996; Gaglio and Katz, 2001; Kaish and Gilad, 1991; Tang et al., 2012; Valliere, 2013).”
Socio-cognitive traits and entrepreneurship: The moderating role of economic institutions (2019, background): “Thus, many entrepreneurship scholars have identified opportunity recognition as one of the most distinctive and fundamental features of entrepreneurial behavior (Kirzner, 1979; Stevenson & Jarillo, 2007; Venkataraman, 1997), which is also a key construct in many recent entrepreneurship models (Gagli”
Beyond Affective Valence: Untangling Valence and Activation Influences on Opportunity Identification (2015, background): “…ENTREPRENEURSHIP THEORY and PRACTICE entrepreneurs to be sensitive to the environment (Gaglio & Katz, 2001) and helps them develop a knowledge base that facilitates the integration and accumulation of new knowledge, which provides the foundation for opportunity identification (Tang et al., 2012).”
Does financial resource slack drive sustainability expenditure in developing economy small and medium-sized enterprises? (2017, background): “…in public policy discussions, and where such issues are raised policy initiatives to address them are plagued with corruption and poor enforcement (Gerdes, 2012), giving firms an incentive to ignore the sustainability implications of their business operations (Tang, Kacmar, and Busenitz, 2012).”
Entrepreneurial alertness and new venture performance: Facilitating roles of networking capability (2018, methodology): “Email: nboso@knust.edu.gh Gilad, 1991; Kirzner, 1999; Minniti, 2004; Tang et al., 2012).”
Measuring entrepreneurial passion: Conceptual foundations and scale validation (2013, methodology): “Building on relevant exemplars from this and other journals (Chandler et al., 2011; Lewis, 2003; Shipp et al., 2009; Tang et al., 2012), we followed a three-stage procedure to assess our instrument in terms of multiple dimensions of validity (Cook and Campbell, 1979; Scandura andWilliams, 2000).”