A systematic literature review of entrepreneurial opportunity recognition: insights on influencing factors

N Mary George, V Parida, T Lahti, J Wincent - … and Management Journal, 2016 - Springer
In the last three decades, research studies investigating how individuals recognize
entrepreneurial opportunities have advanced rapidly and have become a key topic in the …

A systematic review of the concept of entrepreneurial alertness

L Sharma - Journal of Entrepreneurship in Emerging Economies, 2018 - emerald.com
Purpose Entrepreneurial alertness is a key factor in business opportunity identification.
Scholars have determined that successful entrepreneurs have high levels of entrepreneurial …

Grappling with the unbearable elusiveness of entrepreneurial opportunities

D Dimov - Entrepreneurship theory and practice, 2011 - journals.sagepub.com
The notion of opportunity, as currently discussed in entrepreneurship research, is
theoretically exciting but empirically elusive. This article seeks to stimulate a new …

The role of creativity in entrepreneurship

IAN Fillis, R Rentschler - Journal of enterprising culture, 2010 - World Scientific
This paper evaluates the contribution of creativity to entrepreneurship theory and practice in
terms of building an holistic and transdisciplinary understanding of its impact …

Beyond the single-person, single-insight attribution in understanding entrepreneurial opportunities

D Dimov - Entrepreneurship theory and practice, 2007 - journals.sagepub.com
This article helps develop the creativity perspective within entrepreneurship in two ways.
First, it elaborates on the nature of opportunity as a creative product. Rather than viewing …

Examining learning strategies, creativity, and innovation at SMEs using fuzzy set Qualitative Comparative Analysis and PLS path modeling

N Valaei, S Rezaei, WKW Ismail - Journal of Business Research, 2017 - Elsevier
Some degree of ambiguity and inconsistency in organizational learning capability and its
outcomes still exists, especially among small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). This …

[HTML][HTML] Microfoundations of network exploration and exploitation capabilities in international opportunity recognition

AR Faroque, SC Morrish, O Kuivalainen… - International Business …, 2021 - Elsevier
While international entrepreneurship (IE) recognizes opportunity recognition (OR) as a
central activity and the prominent role of network capabilities in OR, it is not informative as to …

Prior knowledge, cognitive characteristics and opportunity recognition

A Hajizadeh, M Zali - … Journal of Entrepreneurial Behavior & Research, 2016 - emerald.com
Purpose–In order to answer why and how some individuals identify opportunities, the
purpose of this paper is to offer a comprehensive framework of key effective factors that …

Creativity: A key link to entrepreneurial behavior

S Ko, JE Butler - Business Horizons, 2007 - Elsevier
While entrepreneurial creativity is a desired behavior in most firms, it is difficult to understand
both how this complex phenomenon occurs and how to increase its rate of occurrence …

Impacts of dynamic managerial capability and international opportunity identification on firm performance

MI Mostafiz, M Sambasivan, SK Goh - Multinational Business Review, 2019 - emerald.com
Purpose This paper aims to investigate the antecedents and outcomes of international
opportunity identification (IOI) in export-manufacturing firms. The fundamental question …