Beyond the Single-Person, Single-Insight Attribution in Understanding Entrepreneurial Opportunities

By Dimo Dimov. 2007

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

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Cognitive Processes of Opportunity Recognition: The Role of Structural Alignment (2010, background): “…has shown that because the distribution of knowledge in society is not uniform, prior knowledge helps to explain why some individuals are able to recognize particular opportunities that others simply fail to see (e.g., Corbett 2005, Dimov 2007b, Fiet 1996, Shane 2000, Shepherd and DeTienne 2005).”
Work Family Conflict in New Business Ventures: The Moderating Effects of Spousal Commitment to the New Business Venture* (2010, background): “Married couples are often the social context in which the entrepreneurial process evolves (Dimov 2007; Liang 2002).”
INVITED ARTICLE THE EFFECTS OF ETHNICITY, FAMILIES AND CULTURE ON ENTREPRENEURIAL EXPERIENCE: AN EXTENSION OF SUSTAINABLE FAMILY BUSINESS THEORY (2008, background): “Traditionally, portrayal of the entrepreneur as a rugged individual garnering the creative forces of innovation and technology has permeated entrepreneurship research (Dimov, 2007).”
Opportunity recognition and SME performance: the mediating effect of business model innovation (2017, positive): “Following the stream of research linking opportunity to the development of new business forms, this study defines an opportunity as an idea that has the potential to be developed into a business form (Dimov, 2007).”
From Minds to Markets (2012, background): “Second, in keeping with the notion that opportunities are different from ideas or dreams, as they require some evaluative process (Dimov, 2007; Short et al., 2010),6 we asked respondents to report the number of alternative market opportunities they had systematically analyzed.”
Entrepreneurial opportunity recognition: an empirical study of R&D personnel (2013, background): “Dimov (2007) also proposed that the social audience with which one interacts may affect the process of interpreting and integrating information to further help shape the initial opportunity conception.”
Understanding, differentiating, and measuring opportunity recognition and opportunity exploitation (2017, neutral): “Fourth, communicating refers to talking to friends, colleagues, potential customers, mentors, entrepreneurs, or experts about business opportunities (Dimov, 2007a).”
“I Put in Effort, Therefore I Am Passionate”: Investigating the Path from Effort to Passion in Entrepreneurship (2014, methodology): “We derived the list of activities from the entrepreneurship literature on start-up activities performed by entrepreneurs to develop a business concept and to start a business (Davidsson & Honig, 2003; Dimov, 2007).”
Romancing the rural: Reconceptualizing rural entrepreneurship as engagement with context(s) (2018, background): “This is not simply a tautology, but an attribution error (Dimov, 2007).”
Technology-Market Combinations and the Identification of Entrepreneurial Opportunities: An Investigation of the Opportunity-Individual Nexus (2012, background): “…market represents an opportunity for someone or some firm) is conceptually and empirically separate from deciding whether, when, and how to personally act upon these beliefs (cf. Dimov, 2007a; McMullen & Shepherd, 2006) and from actual efforts to pursue and exploit opportunities (cf. Dimov, 2010).”
Entrepreneurial judgment as empathic accuracy: a sequential decision-making approach to entrepreneurial action (2013, background): “…into a single moment of time at which judgment is exercised to anticipate accurately or inaccurately the outcome associated with goal pursuit (Dimov, 2007), behavioral theories often argue that the entrepreneurial journey is a sequence of decisions about relatively simple events that…”
A reconceptualization of fear of failure in entrepreneurship (2016, background): “Changes in the level of fear of failure, as described in statements in our data, are a function of the situated entrepreneurial environment, where events unfold one after another (Dimov, 2007; Cope and Watts, 2000; Morris et al., 2012).”