Entrepreneurship, Subjectivism, and the Resource-Based View: Towards a New Synthesis

By N. J. Foss, Peter G. Klein, Yasemin Y. Kor, Joseph T. Mahoney. 2008

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Subfields: Management of Technology and Innovation, Strategy and Management

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Advancing the Human Capital Perspective on Value Creation by Joining Capabilities and Governance Approaches (2015, background): “Thus, firm-specific knowledge constitutes managers’ entrepreneurial capital because it enables them to envision a superior productive opportunity set for the firm (Foss et al., 2008; Kor, Mahoney, & Michael, 2007).”
From Minds to Markets (2012, background): “Specifically, beyond the insight that experienced and novice entrepreneurs differ in their opportunity identification behaviors (Baron & Ensley, 2006; Gruber et al., 2008), extant research does not tell us how different types of knowledge endowments in founding teams systematically affect opportunit”
The Resource-Based View: A Review and Assessment of Its Critiques (2010, background): “This imagining of value and the bringing together of resources can be considered a process of mutual interaction in which resources partially shape people’s mental models, and these enable them to find value in the resources (N. J. Foss et al., 2008; Mahoney, 1995).”
Start-ups, Innovation and Knowledge Spillovers (2021, background): “Start-ups are considered different from incumbent firms because they are believed to have an above-average level of willingness to take risks (Kihlstrom and Laffont 1979) and have a high tolerance to ambiguity (Foss et al. 2008).”
Why We Plan: The Impact of Nascent Entrepreneurs' Cognitive Characteristics and Human Capital on Business Planning (2015, background): “In so doing, we contribute to the growing literature that stresses the role of an individual’s characteristics in the strategy and planning process (e.g., Cassar, 2010; Foss et al., 2008; Gavetti and Rivkin, 2007; Hutzschenreuter and Kleindienst, 2006).”
Making Intangibles “Tangible” in Tests of Resource-Based Theory (2011, background): “Consequently, firm-level heterogeneity encompasses not only heterogeneity in the existence of resources or beliefs about resources’ value but perhaps more importantly heterogeneity in the ways that firms use their resources (Foss et al., 2008).”
Dynamic Creation: Extending the Radical Austrian Approach to Entrepreneurship (2010, background): “subjectivism (e.g. Berglund 2007; Foss et al. 2007; Foss & Ishikawa 2007; Loasby 2007a; Foss et al. 2008) to argue that entrepreneurs’ divergent imaginations and the novel products that result from them drive far-from-equilibrium market processes to create not market anarchy, as many scholars assume”
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).”
Strategic entrepreneurship: origins, core elements and research directions (2010, background): “extend and broaden this concept to integrate strategic management as a context for entrepreneurial actions; and Foss et al. (2008)”
Beyond institutional voids: Business groups, incomplete markets, and organizational form (2015, background): “…Teece, 2007) of group-wide resources augments the creative process of bisociation—the deliberate act of connecting hitherto unrelated information and knowledge—and facilitates “perceiving or crafting new opportunities that others have not noticed, imagined, or enacted” (Foss et al., 2008: 81).”
Value Is in the Eye of the Owner (2012, background): “Finally, these findings also speak to the subjectivist perspective of entrepreneurship, since we account for the fact that individuals hold different preferences and expectations: more specifically, that the contents of the human mind and, hence, decision making, are not rigidly determined by extern”
Uncertainty Types and Transitions in the Entrepreneurial Process (2017, background): “These resource constraints do confine the set of potential options, but do not reduce the quantity of options to anything less than infinity (Penrose 1959; Barzel 1997, Foss et al. 2008).”