Opportunities and Entrepreneurship

Jonathan T. Eckhardt; Scott A. Shane

doi:10.1177/014920630302900304

Opportunities and Entrepreneurship

Jonathan T. Eckhardt¹; Scott A. Shane²

¹ University of Wisconsin School of Business, 5252 Grainger Hall, 975 University Avenue, Madison, WI 53706, USA · ² Van Munching Hall, Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA

Journal of Management 2003

This article extends and elaborates the perspective on entrepreneurship articulated by Shane and Venkataraman (2000) and Venkataraman (1997) by explaining in more detail the role of opportunities in the entrepreneurial process. In particular, the article explains the importance of examining entrepreneurship through a disequilibrium framework that focuses on the characteristics and existence of entrepreneurial opportunities. In addition, the article describes several typologies of opportunities and their implications for understanding entrepreneurship.

DOI: 10.1177/014920630302900304
Volume: 29 (3)
Pages: 333-349
Language: en
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