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 …

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 …

Entrepreneurial discovery or creation? In search of the middle ground

NJ Foss, PG Klein - Academy of Management Review, 2017 - journals.aom.org
Stratos Ramoglou and Eric Tsang (2016) propose a middle-ground position in the long-
standing debate on whether entrepreneurial opportunities are best understood as objective …

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 …

Entrepreneurial opportunities as propensities: Do Ramoglou & Tsang move the field forward?

P Davidsson - Journal of Business Venturing Insights, 2017 - Elsevier
Abstract Ramoglou & Tsang's (R&T) article “A realist perspective of entrepreneurship:
Opportunities as propensities” is a recent, potentially influential addition to the literature on …

Opportunity or dead end? Rethinking the study of entrepreneurial action without a concept of opportunity

J Kitching, J Rouse - International Small Business Journal, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
This article has two objectives: to critique the dominant opportunity discovery and creation
literatures and to propose a new, critical realist–inspired analytical framework to theorise the …

A historical intervention in the “opportunity wars”: Forgotten scholarship, the discovery/creation disruption, and moving forward by looking backward

S Ramoglou, WB Gartner - Entrepreneurship Theory and …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
There are two battles at the heart of the “opportunity wars”:(1) Are opportunities discovered
or created, and (2) Should we perhaps abandon the opportunity concept altogether? We …

Opportunities, time, and mechanisms in entrepreneurship: On the practical irrelevance of propensities

H Berglund, S Korsgaard - Academy of Management Review, 2017 - journals.aom.org
Since the notion of opportunities is still a central construct in entrepreneurship studies, we
applaud Ramoglou and Tsang's (2016) recent effort to engage its philosophical …

After the venture: The reproduction and destruction of entrepreneurial opportunity

MS Wood, W Mckinley - Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Research summary The endogenous formation of entrepreneurial opportunity has become
an important theoretical perspective. Research to date focuses on initial opportunity creation …

[PDF][PDF] Opportunities, organizations, and entrepreneurship

SA Alvarez, JB Barney - Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, 2008 - effectuation.org
In an influential 1989 article, Karl Weick described the theory development process as an
exercise in disciplined imagination (Weick, 1989). Building on Campbell's (1974) notion of …