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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Opportunity recognition"”.
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Opportunity Recognition: A Contingency Framework of Individual Attributes, Time Pressure, and Uncertainty
… dissertation clarifies individual differences in opportunity recognition as a precursor to starting a new business. Using a contingency perspective, time pressure and uncertainty are hypothesized to moderate the effects of individual attributes – entrepreneurial self-efficacy, tolerance of …
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Organizational Learning, Entrepreneurial Opportunity Recognition, and Innovation Performance in High Technology Firms in Taiwan
The findings from this study have suggested many practical implications to assist HRD professionals, managers, entrepreneurs as well as governmental agencies with interventions designed to maximize learning, entrepreneurial processes, and innovation performance at the individual and firm-level. …
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Thinking Fast and Missing the Opportunity: An Investigation into Cognitive Processing Style and Opportunity Recognition
Research on opportunity recognition and entrepreneurial cognition suggests that entrepreneurs are likely to use and potentially benefit from heuristics (Baron, 1998, 2004; Busenitz & Barney, 1997). Some heuristics, particularly well-refined and accurate prototypes, may be valuable to entrepreneurs …
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Exploring first-time nascent entrepreneurs’ on-going entrepreneurial opportunity recognition : a case study of London Metropolitan University’s preincubator
… first-time (pure) nascent entrepreneurs’ ongoing opportunity recognition. There is an academic consensus that the investigation of ongoing opportunity recognition may provide new insights into entrepreneurs’ behaviours and cognitive processes, i.e. what they do and how they do it. This study has …
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An exploration of the suitability of design education approaches in enabling enterprise and entrepreneurship educators to enhance undergraduate students' opportunity recognition attributes, behaviours and skills in Higher Education in Ireland.
… suggests that this does not happen in practice. Opportunity recognition (OR) is frequently cited as a competence from EE education, yet studies suggest it is rarely developed as such. This has resulted in calls for practical guidelines and frameworks on OR to be made available to EE educators. …
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A Knowledge-Based View of the Venture Creation Process: How Technology Entrepreneurs Mix Knowledge to Create Radical Innovation
… recalled their prior knowledge at the time their opportunity was first recognized and the gained knowledge between opportunity recognition and venture formation using Shane's (2000) knowledge framework. The study uses constructivist learning theory to demonstrate how knowledge is constructed …
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An Exploration of Entrepreneurial Leadership Education Program Practices From the Perspective of Entrepreneurial Leaders: A Qualitative Case Study
… to the need for exercises in failing forward, opportunity recognition, and the need for advisors and mentors throughout the academic and entrepreneurial journey. The research question “what are the necessary practices of entrepreneurial leadership educational programs in terms of curriculum and …
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Entrepreneurial Orientation, Entrepreneurial Intent and New Venture Creation: Test of a Framework in a Chinese Context
… Among the four individual differences listed, opportunity recognition seems to be the best predictor of an individual's entrepreneurial orientation and entrepreneurial intent. Future research should further examine opportunity recognition and entrepreneurial orientation. It appears that …
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Entrepreneurial Action by Métis and First Nations entrepreneurs in Saskatchewan: Similarities and differences with established notions of Entrepreneurial Action
… businesses are less studied than antecedent opportunity recognition processes. The two most common form of contexts in which entrepreneurial actions are studied are opportunity-driven (Silicon-Valley type) and necessity-driven (poverty contexts). While there is a fair amount of research on …
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Recognizing and Exploiting New Opportunities in Times of Chaos and Unintended Impacts
… as to how the environment influences the recognition and exploitation process in times of chaos and change. The current study draws on social cognition theory and emergence theory to better understand the characteristics of the experience.</p> <p>The study uses a quantitative survey within …
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The Acquisition of Tacit Knowledge in International Outsourcing Relationships: The Malaysian Supplier Perspective
… outsourcing relationships can use the opportunity provided by collaborating with its foreign buyers to obtain tacit knowledge that is new and valuable to it. Once the external tacit knowledge is assimilated and applied within the supplier firm, its level of competency and business …
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Three essays on cultural intelligence, innovation, and institutional distance
… the importance of CQ for international opportunity recognition and innovation. Specifically, we find that expatriates high in metacognitive CQ are better able to recognize international opportunities and to exploit marketable innovations. Finally, in the third essay we turn away from …
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Risk perception: how previous experiences influence the assessment of risk by immigrants in South Africa
Opportunity recognition and evaluation, or indeed creation, have been identified as critical for new venture creation. Studies have shown that they are mediated by risk perception, with some scholars arguing that the difference between entrepreneurs and non-entrepreneurs lies in how they perceive …
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Refugee resettlement and socio-economic participation through entrepreneurship: The case of New Zealand
… push and pull dichotomy of necessity and opportunity recognition. Although motivated to start businesses, refugees encounter significant barriers to entrepreneurship and need to actively participate in socio-economic activities to support their resettlement through entrepreneurship. …