Learning asymmetries and the discovery of entrepreneurial opportunities

By Andrew C. Corbett. 2007

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

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Citations in the corpus

Entrepreneurial Imaginativeness in New Venture Ideation (2018, methodology): “The overall interrater reliability of the idea qualitymeasurewas acceptable (ICC5 0.92) and consistent with other studies using raters to evaluate new venture ideas (Corbett, 2007; Dahl et al., 1999; Grégoire, Barr, & Shepherd, 2010; Mueller & Shepherd, 2016).”
Small firm innovation performance and employee involvement (2014, neutral): “…Shepherd 2005; Snell and Dean 1992; Grant 1996b; Tushman and Anderson 1986; Ucbasaran et al. 2009), social capital (Bhagavatula et al. 2010; Davidsson and Honig 2003), the use of different information sources (Ozgen and Baron 2007) and other individual characteristics (e.g., Corbett 2007; He 2008).”
Recognizing Opportunities across Campus: The Effects of Cognitive Training and Entrepreneurial Passion on the Business Opportunity Prototype (2018, methodology): “…2012; Shepherd 2004), and it is critical that individuals who are interested in becoming entrepreneurs are trained in opportunity recognition, even before other technical competencies are taught (for instance, writing or building business plans) (Corbett 2007; Kuratko 2005; Pittaway and Cope 2007).”
The Role of Affect in the Creation and Intentional Pursuit of Entrepreneurial Ideas (2012, background): “…has shed a great deal of light on the ways in which entrepreneurs frame their world, learn from it, and think differently about economic opportunity from non-entrepreneurs (e.g., Baron, 1998, 2004; Busenitz & Arthurs, 2007; Corbett, 2007; Gaglio; Gaglio & Katz; Krueger, 2007; Mitchell et al.).”
Solving the Entrepreneurial Puzzle: The Role of Entrepreneurial Interpretation in Opportunity Formation and Related Processes (2012, background): “Shane, 2003; Shane and Venkataraman, 2000) and empirical (Corbett, 2007; Shane, 2000) studies in the discovery tradition, automatic interpretation focuses primarily on individual-level processes (Dutton, 1993a).”
Designing Entrepreneurship Experiments (2017, background): “In entrepreneurship research, the study of opportunity identification has focused on questions concerning the attributes of the entrepreneur (Ucbasaran, Westhead, & Wright, 2008) or the attributes of the opportunity (Corbett, 2007; Dimov, 2007; Shepherd & DeTienne, 2005).”
Human Capital and Entrepreneurship Research: A Critical Review and Future Directions (2016, background): “The high-technology context has been described as particularly valuable to exploring human capital because of the knowledge intensive nature of technology entrepreneurship (Corbett, 2007; Marvel, 2013).”
Knowledge Combination and the Potential Advantages of Family Firms in Searching for Opportunities (2011, neutral): “…human capital (Ucbasaran, Westhead, & Wright, 2008), social capital (Davidsson & Honig, 2003), cognition (Gaglio & Katz, 2001), effectual versus causal reasoning (Sarasvathy, 2001), learning (Corbett, 2007), social cognition (De Carolis & Saparito, 2006), and positive affect (Baron, 2008).”