Grappling with the Unbearable Elusiveness of Entrepreneurial Opportunities

By Dimo Dimov. 2011

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

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The Role of Affect in the Creation and Intentional Pursuit of Entrepreneurial Ideas (2012, background): “As noted by Dimov (2011) formal economic analysis requires that entrepreneurial opportunities exist in order to make statements about their role in restoring or disrupting market equilibrium (Kirzner, 1979; Schumpeter, 1934).”
Opportunity Evaluation as Rule‐Based Decision Making (2014, background): “From this perspective, entrepreneurial opportunities are subjective interpretations about a set of circumstances and what could be done in these situations (Dimov, 2011; Foss et al., 2008).”
Opportunities and institutions: A co-creation story of the king crab industry (2015, background): “…that opportunities are not formed in a singular “ah ha” moment but instead the result of both purposeful and emergent action by entrepreneurs (Alvarez and Barney, 2007; Alvarez et al., 2013; Buenstorf, 2007; Dimov, 2010; Garud and Karnoe, 2003; Gregoire et al., 2010; Sarasvathy, 2001).”
Beyond Affective Valence: Untangling Valence and Activation Influences on Opportunity Identification (2015, methodology): “Since entrepreneurs, regardless of ontological differences, have to search for and find ways to integrate existing resources, to create products or services of value to customers (Dimov, 2011), we use the term “opportunity identification.”
Action! Moving beyond the intendedly-rational logics of entrepreneurship (2018, background): “Davidsson, 2015), particularly in terms of an opportunity’s ex post clarity and ex ante opaqueness (Dimov, 2011).”
Effectuation or causation as the key to corporate venture success? Investigating effects of entrepreneurial behaviors on business model innovation and venture performance (2017, background): “Within this respect, innovation management and entrepreneurship scholars alike have recently suggested to investigate prerequisites for BMI using findings and concepts from entrepreneurial research (Dimov, 2011; Spieth et al., 2014; Venkataraman et al., 2012; Wiklund et al., 2011).”
Forming and Exploiting Opportunities: The Implications of Discovery and Creation Processes for Entrepreneurial and Organizational Research (2013, background): “Indeed, there is growing interest among entrepreneurship scholars in answering these and related questions (Dimov 2010).”
International entrepreneurship: The pursuit of entrepreneurial opportunities across national borders (2018, background): “…definitions of opportunity, differing views on how opportunities are pursued, and debate on even whether ‘‘opportunity’’ is a meaningful theoretical construct (for example, see Alvarez, Barney, & Anderson, 2013; Davidsson, 2015; Dimov, 2011; Garud, Gehman, & Giuliani, 2014; Ramoglou & Tsang, 2016).”
Time and the Entrepreneurial Journey: The Problems and Promise of Studying Entrepreneurship as a Process (2013, background): “Most empirical studies of entrepreneurship continue to employ linear models that are presumed to occur at a single point in time (Dimov, 2011), and calls for longitudinal methods have become a hallmark of our field largely because they have gone unheeded.”
Entrepreneurial judgment as empathic accuracy: a sequential decision-making approach to entrepreneurial action (2013, background): “This sentiment was echoed by Klein (2008) who argued that actions, not opportunities, should be the unit of analysis in entrepreneurship studies because under uncertainty, ‘opportunities’ can only be defined ex post (see also Dimov, 2011).”
Entrepreneurial alertness and new venture performance: Facilitating roles of networking capability (2018, background): “Although conceptual distinction between opportunity recognition and exploitation has been specified clearly (Dimov, 2011; Dutta and Crossan, 2006), research linking entrepreneurial alertness to performance has not explicitly distinguished between opportunity recognition and exploitation.”
Making it personal: : Opportunity individuation and the shaping of opportunity beliefs (2014, background): “In marketing, for example, evaluations are based on tangible products whereas in entrepreneurship evaluations deal with intangible opportunities (Dimov, 2011).”
Uncertainty Types and Transitions in the Entrepreneurial Process (2017, background): “But thinking systematically about continuity is critical because entrepreneurship is a dynamic and evolutionary process (Austin et al. 2012; Dimov 2011; McMullen and Dimov 2013), and such dynamism plays a relevant and unavoidable role in entrepreneurial decision making.”
Digital Technologies as External Enablers of New Venture Creation in the IT Hardware Sector (2018, background): “This is at least in part because objective, actor-independent factors have been cast as preexisting ‘‘entrepreneurial opportunities,’’ a notion that has proven to be elusive and problematic (Dimov, 2011; Kitching & Rouse, 2017; Klein, 2008).”