Expressions about opportunities are used unproblematically in everyday contexts. Yet, the
question “What is an opportunity?” has posed a difficult riddle in the academic study of …

As part of the current debate about the scholarly value of the entrepreneurial opportunity
construct, some critics have suggested that the construct be dislodged. We challenge this …

It is often assumed that opportunities can be known ex ante in spite of the fact that the future
is simultaneously acknowledged to be unknowable. This paper endeavors to resolve this …

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

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 …

Two approaches to studying opportunities have emerged in the entrepreneurship literature.
This paper shows that the first of these approaches—which focuses on how alert …

In this dialogue paper, we consider Zellweger and Zenger's (Forthcoming)
conceptualization, rooted in pragmatism, of entrepreneurs as scientists. While we agree that …

Arguably, one of the unspoken philosophical bases of entrepreneurship studies is an
unreflected metaphysical idealism, which can be seen in the way in which concepts such as …

The idea that entrepreneurial opportunities exist “out there” is increasingly under attack by
scholars who argue that opportunities do not preexist objectively but are actively created …

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 …