...) differentially influence the opportunity and necessity-based motivations of entrepreneurship, and the degree to which formal education moderates these linkages. Design/methodology/approach We review the literature and develop hypotheses, which we examine via large-scale data from multiple sources. We employ...

... publication and authors. The full terms of this licence may be seen at Link to the terms of the CC BY 4.0 licence . Refugee entrepreneurship Opportunity Everyday cosmopolitanism Underdog entrepreneurs Finland Research Council of Finland 348534 http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100002341...

... of Homer, Aristotle, and Augustine as contexts, the development of varying senses of kairos and its derivatives is brought into relation with modern studies of entrepreneurial processes. Three ancient narratives of voyages in the Mediterranean Sea are analysed for how captains use opportunities...

... engagement and pretending. Practical implications The findings have significant implications for venture creation, offering entrepreneurs a framework for conducting expansive prototyping to develop, evaluate and actualise opportunities. Additionally, the findings can enrich entrepreneurial education...

... of theoretical perspectives to enhance understanding of social entrepreneurial opportunities, and have most recently turned to the lens of critical realism. Although this metatheoretical perspective overcomes some problems with previous views and helps to identify the essence of a construct, the level...

... of institutional logics and income level with opportunity entrepreneurship. Findings The authors suggest that high-income individuals are less impacted than low-income individuals by institutional logics that do not support opportunity entrepreneurship. More specifically, the positive effects of a national...

... and the international market entry ways of such enterprises. Findings Whether blocking competitors or seeking opportunities or both, NEILEs' goal of rapid internationalization depends on the severity and persistence of negative attainment discrepancy. When the severity and persistence of negative attainment...

...Victor Silva Corrêa; Maciel M. Queiroz; Marina Almeida Cruz; Helena Belintani Shigaki However, opportunity as an axiom of EO may ultimately narrow the understanding of the construct. Furthermore, still, little-explored anecdotal evidence points to the theoretical plausibility that factors other...

... develop international opportunities. The authors contribute to international entrepreneurship research by delineating and verifying the important associations between entrepreneurial cognition, action and gaining new knowledge and their outcomes for firm's international performance. The authors...

... and entrepreneurial opportunities literature, which shares common conceptualizations about how the predictability of the future affects entrepreneurial action, the authors posit two archetypes of entrepreneurial logic that are associated with different incubation processes (causal or effectual) and two archetypes...

... to both the overall prevalence of opportunity-driven entrepreneurship (ODE) and its gender gap in high-income and emerging economies. Design/methodology/approach On the basis of an unbalanced panel of 41 countries over the period 2005–2016, the authors estimate system generalised method of moment...

... contribution to discussion at the intersection of entrepreneurship and the capabilities approach by using Amartya Sen's concepts of process and opportunity freedom to understand practices. In developing economies, entrepreneurs experience fundamental obstacles to what they can achieve and are therefore...

... platforms. In other words, they are performing activities that need digital engagement but may not in themselves be digital, for example, an Uber taxi driver. The agent leverages digital technology and seeks and acts on these opportunities within the marketplace in effect increasing efficiency by moving...

...Per Broomé; Henrik Ohlsson Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the influence of ability, desire and opportunity on the individual’s intention to be self-employed. Design/methodology/approach The authors created a database from Swedish national registers consisting of all...

...Lorena Popescul The book provides several definitions of entrepreneurship, one of which states that “an entrepreneur is a person who looks at a problem and sees it as an opportunity, and then acts upon it.” Through this definition, the book clearly underlines who is not an entrepreneur, given...

... of this licence may be seen at: http://creativecommons.org/licences/by/3.0/legalcode Opportunity recognition and opportunity exploitation are two central concepts in the entrepreneurial process. However, there is a lack of both a clear specification of the content domains of the constructs and valid...

... (i.e. degree of interest in entrepreneurship) and perceived likelihood of becoming an entrepreneur (i.e. probability to start a business in the future). Furthermore this study verifies if the recession strengthens the orientation to exploit new market opportunities, or simply supports self-employment...

...Steffen Korsgaard Purpose The purpose of this paper is to review the recent critique of the discovery view of opportunities and by implication the current state of the so‐called creation view of opportunities. Design/methodology/approach A systematic review of articles published from 2000‐2010...

...David W. Taylor Chapter 3 covers the first quadrant of ‘Opportunity‐Centred Entrepreneurship’. It explores how people can learn to work in entrepreneurial ways and how this learning is connected to the opportunities the entrepreneur selects. Rae, at different points, links this process with both...