Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to review the recent critique of the discovery view of
opportunities and by implication the current state of the so‐called creation view of …

Opportunity is a central concept within the entrepreneurship field, and there is now a critical
mass of literature centered on the concept. The authors seek to make two main contributions …

There is plenty of debate in the entrepreneurship literature regarding entrepreneurial
opportunity. There also has been a lack of construct clarity. These two issues have …

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 …

Research on opportunities has received significant attention in entrepreneurship in the last
decade. However, recently the focus has shifted from opportunities themselves to the …

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 …

The notion of opportunity, as currently discussed in entrepreneurship research, is
theoretically exciting but empirically elusive. This article seeks to stimulate a new …

Interest in opportunity identification and shaping is growing among entrepreneurship
scholars. Some even suggest that this topic represents the domain of entrepreneurship as …

The concept of entrepreneurial opportunity has become a fundamental entity organizing
entrepreneurship research. Recently, however, the validity of the construct has come into …

The literature on “entrepreneurial opportunities” has grown rapidly since the publication of
Shane and Venkataraman (2000). By directing attention to the earliest stages of …