Entrepreneurs as scientists: A pragmatist alternative to the creation-discovery debate

T Zellweger, T Zenger - Academy of Management Review, 2022 - journals.aom.org
In a thoughtful comment on our paper (Zellweger & Zenger, Forthcoming), Sergeeva,
Bhardwaj, and Dimov (2022) joined us in advocating for a pragmatist perspective on …

Mutable reality and unknowable future: Revealing the broader potential of pragmatism

A Sergeeva, A Bhardwaj, D Dimov - Academy of Management …, 2022 - journals.aom.org
In this dialogue paper, we consider Zellweger and Zenger's (Forthcoming)
conceptualization, rooted in pragmatism, of entrepreneurs as scientists. While we agree that …

Propensities return us to the discovery-creation debate about entrepreneurial opportunities

L Braver, E Danneels - Academy of Management Review, 2018 - journals.aom.org
In “A Realist Perspective of Entrepreneurship: Opportunities As Propensities,” Ramoglou
and Tsang (2016) forge an “actualization approach” in an attempt to bypass the now …

On the misuse of realism in the study of entrepreneurship

S Ramoglou - Academy of Management Review, 2013 - journals.aom.org
The AMR Decade Award for Shane and Venkataraman's (2000)“The Promise of
Entrepreneurship As a Field of Research” recently stimulated a number of commentaries …

The questions we ask and the questions we care about: reformulating some problems in entrepreneurship research

SD Sarasvathy - Journal of Business venturing, 2004 - Elsevier
Both history of science and creativity research have shown that reformulating the questions
we ask can lead to breakthroughs more often than trying harder to search for more rigorous …

In defense of common sense in entrepreneurship theory: Beyond philosophical extremities and linguistic abuses

S Ramoglou, EWK Tsang - Academy of Management Review, 2017 - journals.aom.org
Whether entrepreneurial opportunities are discovered or created is a long-standing dilemma
in the study of entrepreneurship. In our recent article (Ramoglou & Tsang, 2016) we framed …

Entrepreneurship as method: Open questions for an entrepreneurial future

SD Sarasvathy… - … theory and practice, 2011 - journals.sagepub.com
In this essay, we outline the provocative argument that in the realm of human affairs there
exists an “entrepreneurial method” analogous to the scientific method spelled out by Francis …

Opportunities lie in the demand side: Transcending the discovery-creation debate

S Ramoglou, EWK Tsang - Academy of Management Review, 2018 - journals.aom.org
Since the publication of “A Realist Perspective of Entrepreneurship: Opportunities As
Propensities”(Ramoglou & Tsang, 2016), we have had the pleasure of having several …

Realism, empiricism, and fetishism in the study of entrepreneurship

GC Crawford, D Dimov… - Journal of Management …, 2016 - journals.sagepub.com
We challenge a stream of thought that focuses on drawing what we see as a frivolous
contrast between creation and discovery view of entrepreneurship. Its detachment from the …

“Clipping an angel's wings”: on the value and limitations of philosophy in management research

S Ramoglou, JS McMullen - Academy of Management Review, 2024 - journals.aom.org
Ramoglou and McMullen (2022) offers a logically rigorous extension and refinement of
earlier work on the conceptual foundations of entrepreneurship theory–the actualization …