Entrepreneurship Research (1985–2009) and the Emergence of Opportunities

Abstract

In order to identify shifts and trends in the entrepreneurship literature over the past 25 years, we conduct a bibliometric study involving new data from the 2000–2009 era building on 1985–1999 data to study entrepreneurship research published in the major management journals. Our findings indicate that entrepreneurship articles now have a significant presence in the mainline “A” journals. Furthermore, we contend that this presence signals legitimacy and, more importantly, a growing exchange among researchers studying entrepreneurship. The area of entrepreneurial opportunities and nascent ventures is showing signs of growth and in our view represents an area where entrepreneurship is contributing back to the broader research conversation in organizational studies.

Entrepreneurial universities: emerging models in the new social and economic landscape

“…Based on these theoretical/empirical studies, we pay attention to the role of entrepreneurial universities as drivers of innovation and entrepreneurship activities, particularly, on the interactions among individuals/organizations, as well as, organizations/contexts in the definition of entrepreneurial university models. These interactions are key elements in the emergence of opportunities (Busenitz et al 2014). …”

A configurational analysis of the antecedents of entrepreneurial orientation

“…The psychological traits create the EO imprint in combination with the social context and the organizational conditions surrounding the entrepreneurial action (Korunka et al, 2003). As suggested by Busenitz, Plummer, Klotz, Shahzad, and Rhoads (2014), entrepreneurship can be properly understood as a contextual phenomenon in the sense that it unfolds at the intersection between environments, organizational settings, social ties and opportunities. Therefore, our baseline research proposition postulates the existence of different and equifinal pathways to EO and reads as follows: Proposition 1.…”

The role of creativity in mediating the relationship between entrepreneurial passion and entrepreneurial alertness

“…Identifying entrepreneurial opportunities has been a key topic in the field of entrepreneurship (Busenitz, Plummer, Klotz, Shahzad, & Rhoads, 2014;Short, Ketchen, Shook, & Ireland, 2010), and its study has been linked to abilities and capabilities at an individual level (Ardichvili, Cardozo, & Ray, 2003;Gaglio & Katz, 2001;Shane, 2000;Shepherd, McMullen, & Jennings, 2007). The concept of entrepreneurial alertness has contributed to research on opportunity identification since through the development of this concept, a clearer explanation has been obtained as to why only some people are more aware of the information and changes that point towards a possible entrepreneurial opportunity (Tang, Kacmar & Busenitz, 2012).…”