Inside opportunity formation: enterprise failure, cognition, and the creation of opportunities

By Ronald K. Mitchell, J. Mitchell, J. Smith. 2008

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

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Exploration and Exploitation Strategies, Profit Performance, and the Mediating Role of Strategic Learning: Escaping the Exploitation Trap (2012, unknown): “Given these characteristics, PLS has increasingly been employed by management researchers in recent years (e.g., Kautonen et al., 2010; Mitchell et al., 2008).”
Entrepreneurial intentions in the third age: the impact of perceived age norms (2011, methodology): “The research model is examined by means of the partial least squares (PLS) approach to structural equation modeling, which is a regressionbased technique that has gained popularity among entrepreneurship researchers recently (e.g., Fink et al. 2008; Liñán and Chen 2009; Mitchell et al. 2008).”
The formation and interplay of social capital in crowdfunded social ventures (2014, background): “While opportunity recognition focuses on the restrictive roles of business and social structure on entrepreneurial activity, opportunity formation emphasizes the creation of opportunities by the entrepreneur (Gielnik et al. 2012; Mitchell, Mitchell, and Smith 2008; Vaghely and Julien 2010).”
Making it personal: : Opportunity individuation and the shaping of opportunity beliefs (2014, background): “These findings contribute to the literature suggesting that failure creates a sheath of hesitancy (e.g., McGregor and Elliot, 2005; Mitchell et al., 2008) possibly stemming from psychological or emotional wounds.”
The Concept of “Opportunity” in Entrepreneurship Research: Past Accomplishments and Future Challenges (2010, background): “Finally, building on ideas from cognitive psychology, Mitchell et al. (2008) demonstrated that past failures keep opportunity formation processes flexible while commitment emerges.”
Entrepreneurial talent and venture performance: A meta-analytic investigation of SMEs (2013, unknown): “…U.S. Advanced 46 Meziou (1991) 176 8800 U.S. Advanced 46 Miner et al. (1994) 90 90 n/a n/a n/a Minguzzi and Passaro (2001) 104 2600 Italy Advanced 75 Mitchell et al. (2008) 220 220 U.S. Advanced 46 Mollick (2010) 1552 55,872 n/a n/a n/a Morris et al. (1997) 177 8850 U.S. Advanced 46 Mursitama…”
The Causes of the Failure of New Small and Medium Enterprises in South Africa (2014, background): “Mitchell et al. (2008) argue that the effect of new SME failure can be portrayed both negatively and positively.”
THE PRODUCTION OF ENTREPRENEURIAL OPPORTUNITY: A CONSTRUCTIVIST PERSPECTIVE (SUMMARY) (2010, background): “Worry is not a good recipe for the conceptualization of new opportunity ideas, and those entrepreneurs who can move past the worry will be better equipped to renew the opportunity idea-objectifi cationenactment cycle (Mitchell et al., 2008).”
Strategic entrepreneurship: origins, core elements and research directions (2010, background): “notion of an entrepreneurial mindset, which affects the way entrepreneurs selectively interpret and frame market signals in order to undertake entrepreneurial activity ( Mitchell et al. , 2008”