Opportunity Identification and Entrepreneurial Behavior (Hc)

by John E Butler (Editor)

Overview

Scholars of entrepreneurship provide a comprehensive view of opportunity identification, offer a number of theoretical extensions and developments, explore some new empirical territory, and suggest future research. Their topics include the enterprise-serving bias, behavior by different types of entrepreneurs, and how knowledge affects opportunity discovery and exploitation among new ventures in dynamic markets.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781593112431
Publisher:	Information Age Publishing, Inc.
Publication date:	09/05/2000
Series:	Research in Entrepreneurship and Management
Pages:	336
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.75(d)

Table of Contents

	Opportunity Identification and Entrepreneurial Behavior: An Introduction	ix
1.	Systematic Search by Repeat Entrepreneurs	1
2.	Opportunities as Attributions: The Enterprise-Serving Bias	29
3.	Opportunity Recognition: Insights from a Cognitive Perspective	47
4.	Opportunity Identification Behavior by Different Types of Entrepreneurs	75
5.	Bisociation and Opportunity	99
6.	So What Is an Entrepreneurial Opportunity?	115
7.	The Individuality of Opportunity Recognition: A Critical Review and Extension	135
8.	Extraordinary versus Ordinary Discoveries: The Case of American and Chinese Entrepreneurship	163
9.	Identification of Entrepreneurial Opportunities in Asia: A Look at the Philippines and Vietnam	191
10.	How Knowledge Affects Opportunity Discovery and Exploitation Among New Ventures in Dynamic Markets	219
11.	Technological Innovation and the Early-Stage Development of New Technology Small Firms: Entrepreneurship, Entrepreneurial Capacity, and the Opportunity Discovery Process	241
12.	Perceiving Opportunity "Through a Fog of Uncertainty": Haworth, Inc. (1948-1976) 271	271
13.	Constructing Corridors to Economic Primitives: Entrepreneurial Opportunities as Demand-Side Artifacts	291
	About the Contributors	313