We show that the concept of “entrepreneurial opportunity” in current entrepreneurship process theories is a conflation of opportunities as situations and opportunities as judgments, which are two different concepts both ontologically and epistemologically. Although all entrepreneurs make...

Current approaches to entrepreneurship — discovery, creation, enablement, judgment, and actualization — seem incompatible in their explanations of entrepreneurial competence. Their disagreement stems from their divergent positions concerning the concept of opportunity, which does not provide...

In 1982, Giovanni Dosi contributed with an explanation that attempted to conciliate the demand-pull and the technology-push views on technological selection. The solution based on Kuhnian analysis of scientific revolutions assumes the origins of technological changes to be independent of market...

Standard-setting coalitions are increasingly composed of rival firms from different sectors and are characterized by simultaneous and/or sequential cooperation and competition among their members. This paper examines why firms choose to belong to two standard-setting coalitions instead of one...