Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore the concept of opportunity and its role in social entrepreneurship … include interviews, documents and television programmes. Findings – The case study finds that the opportunity takes a number … basis of these findings a model of social entrepreneurship processes is proposed, where the process is driven by …

We review the place of Austrian economics in contemporary entrepreneurship and management research, focusing on the … theoretical and applied work on entrepreneurship, even though Kirzner’s larger research program has not been well understood. We … also describe and assess a number of methodological, ontological, and cognitive critiques of the opportunity …

opportunity spaces? (3) Are the unique ideas more valuable than those similar to many others? The answer to the first question is … to others are not generally the most valuable ones. This paper was accepted by Lee Fleming, entrepreneurship and …

opportunity entrepreneurs, who voluntarily pursue a business opportunity, and necessity entrepreneurs, who lack alternative … indicate that the returns to a year of education for opportunity entrepreneurs are 3.5 percentage points higher than the paid … employees’ rate of 8.1%, but 6.5 percentage points lower for necessity entrepreneurs. …

arbitrage opportunity within the experiment, and those in the unpropitious treatment were given prior knowledge that oriented …An entrepreneur’s prior knowledge and experience play a critical role in his ability to identify and exploit … entrepreneurial opportunities. Although entrepreneurship research has acknowledged the role that prior information and prior knowledge …

Entrepreneurship has conventionally been thought of as a function of opportunity. The problem with such an ethnocentric … approach, however, is that it assumes a uniform response to opportunity across cultures. In contrast, this article makes use of … and contacted each entrepreneur in town. Findings suggest that the causal variable behind enterprise is not an opportunity …

Contemporary theories of entrepreneurship generally focus on the decision-making context of the individual. The … opportunity by developing a knowledge spillover theory of entrepreneurship. The basic argument is that knowledge created … recognition of opportunities and the decision to commercialize them is the focal concern. While the prevalent view in the …