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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Opportunity evaluation"”.
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ARTICULATING THE INTUITIVE: MECHANISMS FOR ENTREPRENEURS TO COMMUNICATE OPPORTUNITY EVALUATION DECISION POLICIES
… the attributes of a specific entrepreneurial opportunity represents a barrier to the transferability of knowledge to competitors (beneficial), while ambiguity about the relationship between a specific opportunity and value creation represents a barrier to the transferability of knowledge to …
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Exploring how entrepreneurs make decisions on the growth of their business: A cognitive perspective
… cognition and behaviours when making opportunity-related decisions will show how growth decisions are made. It is still unclear what cognitive styles and knowledge structures entrepreneurs use to process and frame information for opportunity-related decision-making. A closer look at …
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The role of founder identity in the evaluation of entrepreneurial opportunities
… explored the role of founder identity in the evaluation of entrepreneurial opportunities. It was argued that a social identity lens can be central in improving our understanding of founders' heterogeneous behaviours and actions in new firm creation and development. Using the lens of identity …
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Toward a process view of entrepreneurial action : an empirical investigation of activities, mechanisms and outcomes.
… entrepreneurial action. Building on the existing opportunity evaluation literature, I theorize a process framework with the argument that the event-based enterprising activities and the formation of entrepreneurial action processes are interrelated. With that, the process of entrepreneurial action …
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Lost in translation: Linking technology to market opportunities in technology-based ventures
… innovation literature with the entrepreneurial opportunity literature to examine the effects of founders’ prior experience and level of expertise on the technology-driven search process. I find that founder effects are quite different for experiential search for market opportunities, when …
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An Investigation into the Learning Journey of Graduate Entrepreneurs
… the entrepreneur, entrepreneurial activity, opportunity evaluation and exploitation; less consideration is given to the development of the entrepreneur as a transformed being, journeying from roles of student to entrepreneur, through the process of being a potential entrepreneur and then …