The Discovery of Opportunities: Extending the Economic Theory of the Entrepreneur

By Mark C. Casson, Nigel Wadeson. 2007

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Subfields: Accounting, Economics and Econometrics, Management of Technology and Innovation

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A systematic literature review of entrepreneurial opportunity recognition: insights on influencing factors (2014, background): “…Fiet (2009) • García-Cabrera and García-Soto (2009) • Ozgen (2009) • Bhagavatula et al. (2010) • Ramos-Rodríguez et al. (2010) Environment conditions • Sanz-Velasco (2006) • Casson and Wadeson (2007) • Cooper and Park (2008) • García-Cabrera and García-Soto (2009) • Mainela and Puhakka (2009) •…”
Opportunity recognition and the tendency to be an entrepreneur: A bivariate genetics perspective (2009, background): “Because people need to identify opportunities to be entrepreneurs, skill at opportunity identification increases the probability that a person will become an entrepreneur (Baron & Ensley, 2006; Casson & Wadeson, 2007; Gaglio & Katz, 2001; Shane, 2000).”
The Impact of Entrepreneurship Education: A Study of Iranian Students' Entrepreneurial Intentions and Opportunity Identification (2016, background): “In addition, researchers have made considerable efforts to understand the antecedents of opportunity identification (e.g., Ardichvilia, Cardozob, and Ray 2003; Baron and Ensley 2006; Casson and Wadeson 2007; Gaglio and Katz 2001; Ozgen and Baron 2007; Shane 2000).”
The Influence of Gender on Entrepreneurial Intention: The Mediating Role of Perceptual Factors (2016, background): “Some studies in the entrepreneurship field have shown that the ability to recognize opportunities increases the probability of people becoming entrepreneurs (Baron and Ensley, 2006; Casson and Wadeson, 2007; Clarysse et al., 2011).”
Solving the Entrepreneurial Puzzle: The Role of Entrepreneurial Interpretation in Opportunity Formation and Related Processes (2012, background): “Shane, 2003; Shane and Venkataraman, 2000), and are recognized as opportunities based on their expected value (Casson and Wadeson, 2007; Shane and Venkataraman, 2000): i.”
Opportunity Discovery, Entrepreneurial Action, and Economic Organization (2008, background): “Cook and Plunkett (2006) and Chambers (2007) discuss how these problems are addressed within closed17 Spender (2006) argues that “Penrose’s model of managerial learning [is] an accessible instance of the epistemological approach proposed by Austrian economists such as Hayek, Kirzner, and…”
THE ROLE OF CREATIVITY IN ENTREPRENEURSHIP (2010, background): “Collective entrepreneurial endeavour within an organisation has been termed internal entrepreneurship (Casson and Wadeson 2007) and is closely related to the notion of entrepreneurial teams of employees (Stewart 1989).”
Beyond Necessity-Driven Versus Opportunity-Driven Entrepreneurship (2008, background): “Indeed, this bifurcated classification has begun to move ever more centre stage in the contemporary entrepreneurship literature, reflected not only in its usage in the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM), the predominant global survey of the degree and nature of entrepreneurship (Bosma and Harding”
Prior knowledge and social networks in the exploitation of entrepreneurial opportunities (2010, background): “So, the factors affecting the identification of opportunities have received more attention (Ardichvili et al. 2003; Baron and Ensley 2006; Casson and Wadeson 2007; Gordon 2007; Ozgen and Baron 2007; Park 2005; Puhakka 2007; Singh et al. 1999; Shepherd and DeTienne 2005; Smith et al. 2009; Ucbasaran ”
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”
Entrepreneurial judgment as empathic accuracy: a sequential decision-making approach to entrepreneurial action (2013, background): “Recently, the construct has been used to analyze opportunity identification and evaluation (McMullen and Shepherd, 2006), entrepreneurial projects (Casson and Wadeson, 2007), and the theory of the firm (Casson, 1982; Foss and Klein, 2008, 2012).”