The constructivist view of entrepreneurial opportunities: a critical analysis

Ramoglou, Stratos; Zyglidopoulos, Stelios C.

doi:10.1007/s11187-014-9590-4

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“…This extends the range of enactment theory in ways that respond to the critiques cited earlier. Specifically, it highlights the point that the construction and de‐construction of opportunities is an ongoing process that parallels (and is embedded in) the construction of organizations and institutions that Ramoglou and Zyglidopoulos () describe.…”

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confidence: 98%

“…Third, critics of the constructivist view of entrepreneurial opportunities have argued that the opportunity enactment or creation perspective is largely linguistic innovation, and what is created are ‘not opportunities but organizations, institutions, products, services, and so on’ (Ramoglou and Zyglidopoulos, : 74). This critique has greater force to the extent that enactment scholars confine their attention to the pre‐venture launch period.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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After the Venture: The Reproduction and Destruction of Entrepreneurial Opportunity

Wood

McKinley

2017

Strat. Entrepreneurship J.

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Research summary: The endogenous formation of entrepreneurial opportunity has become an important theoretical perspective. Research to date focuses on initial opportunity creation dynamics leading to venture formation. This excludes the ongoing enactment of opportunity that takes place after venture founding. We focus on this phenomenon, arguing that opportunities must be continually reproduced through maintenance of consensus among stakeholders about their viability. If consensus fails, the objectivity of the opportunity is 'destroyed' in a process we label 'opportunity deobjectification.' We identify predictors of opportunity de-objectification and summarize their effects in propositions suitable for future empirical testing. Implications for future theory and research are also discussed.Managerial summary: Previous entrepreneurship research has focused attention on the process through which opportunity ideas become objectified and perceived as external facts by entrepreneurs and their stakeholders during venture formation. While such attention is critical, we argue that venture founding marks the beginning, rather than the end, of a dynamic process in which the fact-like status of opportunities is maintained. If stakeholder consensus about opportunity viability is disrupted, it raises questions about this factual status and opens up the possibility that the opportunity is a subjective cognition of the entrepreneur rather than an objective reality. We call this phenomenon 'opportunity de-objectification,' and we identify a number of factors that precipitate it. We also suggest that entrepreneurs may reduce the likelihood of this phenomenon by managing some of the factors that induce it.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 98%

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

After the Venture: The Reproduction and Destruction of Entrepreneurial Opportunity

Wood

McKinley

2017

Strat. Entrepreneurship J.

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“…Although the emphasis of creation on agency and the relational aspects of entrepreneurial action is warranted, like others, we are not convinced that appending the label opportunity to activities adequately conceptualised in other terms offers any new theoretical insight (Ramoglou and Zyglidopolous 2015). In creation accounts, the term opportunity simply redescribes activities such as having a business idea, acquiring, combining and mobilising resources, networking with stakeholders, creating new ventures and achieving a product sale -but contributes nothing to enhance understanding.…”

Section: Opportunity Creationmentioning

confidence: 92%

Opportunity or dead end? Rethinking the study of entrepreneurial action without a concept of opportunity

Kitching

Rouse

2016

International Small Business Journal: Researching Entrepreneurs

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Abstract:This paper has two objectives: to critique the dominant opportunity discovery and creation literatures, and; to propose a new, critical realist-inspired analytical framework to theorise the causes, processes and consequences of entrepreneurial action -one that needs no concept of opportunity. We offer three reasons to support our critique of opportunity studies. First, there are important absences, contradictions and inconsistencies in definitions of opportunity in theoretical and empirical work that mean the term cannot signal a clear direction for theorising or empirical research. Our central criticism is that the concept of opportunity cannot refer simultaneously, without contradiction, to a social context offering profit-making prospects, to particular practices, and to agents' subjective beliefs or imagined futures. Second, a new definition of opportunity would perpetuate the conceptual chaos. Third, useful concepts to capture important entrepreneurial processes are readily available, for instance, combining resources, creating new ventures and achieving product sales, which render a concept of opportunity superfluous. Instead, we conceptualise entrepreneurial action as investments in resources intended to create new goods and services for market exchange emergent from the interaction between agential, socialstructural and cultural causal powers.

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“…sajandi esimestel aastakümnetel on ettevõtluse uurijad ja arendajad disku teerinud elavalt selle üle, kas ettevõtjate siht peaks olema objektiivselt eksisteerivate ärivõimaluste otsimine ja äratundmine (DeTienne & Chandler, 2004) või uute võimaluste loomine (Alvarez & Barney, 2007;McGrath & MacMillan, 2000). Seda diskussiooni võib selgitada konstruktivismi kriitilisest analüüsist lähtudes (Ramoglou & Zyglidopoulos, 2015), kuid ettevõtluspraktika kontekstis saab uute ärivõimaluste loomist seostada ka ettevõtja aktiivse tegevusega uute turgude ja tarbimisviiside kujundamisel. Et uute ärivõimaluste loojate sihtrühm saavutaks ettevõtlusõppe eesmärgid, on otstarbekas pakkuda neile loovustreeninguid, mis süvendavad loovat mõtlemist.…”

Section: Ettevõtlustüüpide Mõju Ettevõtjate Arendamise Võimalusteleunclassified

Entrepreneurship types and internationalization in entrepreneurship learning

Elenurm¹

2018

EHA

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Ettevõtlusõpet on vaja kohandada eri sihtrühmadele: neile, kes on juba loonud ettevõtte, asuvad õppeprotsessis ettevõtet looma, kavatsevad vahetult peale õpinguid ettevõtte luua või võivad enda ettevõtluspädevust rakendada kaugemas tulevikus. Artikli eesmärk on ettevõtluse olemuse tõlgendustest ja ettevõtlus tüüpide võrdlusest lähtudes ning Eesti ettevõtluse rahvusvahelistumise perspektiive arvestades pakkuda välja ettevõtlustüüpide liigitus, mis hõlmaks eri sihtrühmade õpivajadusi ja õpitulemuste rakendamise võimalusi eeskätt kõrghariduses. Ettevõtlusõppe kohandamisel sihtrühmade vajaduste järgi tuleb arvestada ettevõtluse rahvus vahelistumise võimalusi, innovaatilisusest ja kasvuambitsioonist lähtuvaid piiriülese võrgustumise vajadusi, iseseisva ja organisatsioonisisese ettevõtluse konteksti, ettevõtlustüübist sõltuvat ressursibaasi ning individuaalset ja koosloovat ettevõtlusorientatsiooni. Niisama tähtis on õppija kui potentsiaalse või juba tegutseva ettevõtja arengurada, tema valmisolek tegevuse kaudu õppida ja avatud e-õppes osaleda. Summary

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The constructivist view of entrepreneurial opportunities: a critical analysis

Cited by 38 publications

References 49 publications

After the Venture: The Reproduction and Destruction of Entrepreneurial Opportunity

After the Venture: The Reproduction and Destruction of Entrepreneurial Opportunity

Opportunity or dead end? Rethinking the study of entrepreneurial action without a concept of opportunity

Entrepreneurship types and internationalization in entrepreneurship learning

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