Léger-Jarniou, Tegtmeier – Research Handbook on Entrepreneurial Opportunities: Reopening the Debate

Research Handbook on Entrepreneurial Opportunities

Reopening the Debate

By: Léger-Jarniou, Tegtmeier

Publisher: Edward Elgar Pub (January 27, 2017)

Pages: 328

Format: Ebook (PDF)

Description:

With a wide-ranging set of contributions, this book provides a compilation of cutting-edge original research in the field of entrepreneurial opportunities. The book reopens the subject from diverse perspectives focusing on theories and approaches to entrepreneurial opportunities. It provides a brief history of the idea of opportunity and a framework how opportunities develop in space and place.

Further, this Research Handbook looks at process and context-based views on the topic. It also includes the latest research on impact factors, such as individual values on creating entrepreneurial opportunities.

The book has been complemented by an outstanding Delphi panel of six leading scholars of the field: Lowell Busenitz, Dimo Dimov, James O. Fiet, Denis Grégoire, Jeff McMullen and Mike Wright. This carefully edited selection of current and topical contributions will be of immense value to students, researchers and scholars interested in the field of entrepreneurial opportunities.

Contributors include: C. Albornoz, J.E. Amorós, T. Baker, B. Bjerke, L. Busenitz, M. Chiasson, D. Dimov, J.O. Fiet, J. Gaddefors, W.B. Gartner, D.A. Grégoire, A. Haas, T.P. Kenworthy, S. Korsgaard, A. Kurczewska, C. Léger-Jarniou, F. Linán, M. Marchesnay, J.S. McMullen, S.P. Sassmannshausen, F. Sautet, B.T. Teague, S. Tegtmeier, S.J. Vliamos, R.D. Wadhwani, M. Wright

Contents:

Introduction: Reopening the Debate – a Delphi Panel of the Leading Scholars in Research on Entrepreneurial Opportunities

PART I ENTREPRENEURIAL OPPORTUNITIES – THEORIES AND APPROACHES
1. A Brief History of the Idea of Opportunity
William B. Gartner, Bruce T. Teague, Ted Baker and R. Daniel Wadhwani

2. Starting a Business Venture Rationally or Naturally – Exploiting an Opportunity in Space or Developing a Place
Björn Bjerke and Johan Gaddefors

3. Austrian Market Theory and the Entrepreneurial Function as Opportunity Recognition
Frederic Sautet

PART II THE OPPORTUNITY FORMATION PROCESS
4. Beyond Discovery: Exploring the Field of Entrepreneurship without a Discovery View
Steffen Korsgaard and Sean Patrick Sassmannshausen

5. The Opportunity Development Process of Nascent Entrepreneurs
Silke Tegtmeier and Catherine Léger-Jarniou

PART III ENTREPRENEURIAL OPPORTUNITIES IN DIFFERENT CONTEXTS
6. Understanding the Knowledge – Opportunities – Entrepreneurship Mechanism
Spyros J. Vliamos

7. A Shaped Fate: Interpreting Opportunity through an Actor Network Lens
Thomas P. Kenworth and Mike Chiasson

8. From Information to Opportunity. The Role of Boundary Spanners in Sensing and Seizing Opportunities
Aurore Haas

9. Opportunity: From Semantic Concept to Pragmatic Tool
Michael Marchesney

PART IV IMPACT FACTORS ON OPPORTUNITY FORMATION
10. Why are Some Individuals Willing to Pursue Opportunities and Others Aren’t? The Role of Individual Values
Francisco Linán and Agnieszka Kurczewska

11. The Effect of Entrepreneurship Education on Opportunity Recognition Self-efficacy
Carlos Albornoz and José Ernesto Amorós

Index

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