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Entrepreneurial Alertness and Entrepreneurial Orientation: A Realist View

Academy of Management Proceedings, 2017
Prevailing studies confirm a weak positive relationship between entrepreneurial orientation (EO) and firm performance, leading to the search for contingencies that affect the strength of this linka...
Kevin Francis Mole, Samuel Adomako
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Unpacking entrepreneurial alertness: How character matters for entrepreneurial thinking

Journal of Small Business Management, 2021
Over centuries and across cultures, scholars have consistently highlighted the role of character for achieving personal and societal good.
Homa Pirhadi, Sohrab Soleimanof, Alireza Feyzbakhsh   +2 more
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Entrepreneurial Alertness and Discovery

The Review of Austrian Economics, 2001
The purpose of this paper is to elaborate Kirzner's concepts of entrepreneurial alertness and discovery in the subjectivist perspective. Specifically, it argues that the entrepreneurial discovery process is associated with the actor's interpretation framework, or the stock of knowledge, which is derived from everyday life experiences. Discovery in this
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The Construct of Entrepreneurial Alertness

2012
This chapter is divided into three sections. In the first section, five streams of research on entrepreneurial opportunity formation are reviewed to see how knowledge and cognitive and behavioral factors are conceptualized to describe both the breaking of the existing means–ends framework and the construction of a new means–ends framework.
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Entrepreneurial alertness: a systematic literature review

Journal of Small Business & Entrepreneurship, 2020
Recently, cognitive perspectives have garnered increasing attention in entrepreneurship alertness research.
Zohreh Hassannezhad Chavoushi, Mohammad Reza Zali, Dave Valliere, Nezameddin Faghih, Reza Hejazi, Ali Mobini Dehkordi   +5 more
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ENTREPRENEURIAL ALERTNESS AND PAYING ATTENTION

Journal of Enterprising Culture, 2013
This article uses theoretical approaches from cognitive psychology to examine the basis for entrepreneurial alertness and to connect it to existing theories of attention in strategic management and decision-making. It thereby provides a theoretical basis for understanding how entrepreneurial alertness leads the individual to pay attention to new ...
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Developing an entrepreneurial typology: the roles of entrepreneurial alertness and attributional style

International Entrepreneurship and Management Journal, 2007
This study develops an entrepreneurial typology employing two dimensions, high versus low entrepreneurial alertness and internal versus external attributional styles that helps illustrate why entrepreneurs start new businesses. The resulting 2 × 2 typology of entrepreneurs identifies four entrepreneur types based on these two dimensions: the true ...
Jintong Tang, Zhi Tang, Franz T. Lohrke
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Entrepreneurial Orientation and Firm Performance: The Enabling Effect of Entrepreneurial Alertness

Academy of Management Proceedings, 2019
Although research is prolific with the influence of entrepreneurial orientation (EO) on firm performance, little attention is accorded to the primary driver for this influence.
Kevin Francis Mole, Samuel Adomako, Jintong Tang, Andy Yu   +3 more
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Capitalizing on women’s entrepreneurial alertness

International Journal of Gender and Entrepreneurship, 2019
Purpose The purpose of this study is to examine how human, social and psychological capital influences women’s entrepreneurial alertness and discover if these influences are moderated by job complexity. Design/methodology/approach This is a quantitative research study using a purposive sampling method where data are gathered from a self-report ...
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An Integrative Model of Entrepreneurial Alertness

2012
The literature on entrepreneurship and strategy is concerned with the performance implications of key variables. Contingency theory suggests that alignment among key variables is critical for obtaining optimal performance (Lumpkin and Dess 1996).
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