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Understanding the Entrepreneurial Mind pp 305–325Cite as

Entrepreneurial Alertness and Opportunity Identification: Where Are We Now?

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Part of the book series: International Studies in Entrepreneurship ((ISEN,volume 24))

Since its inception, entrepreneurship has struggled with the academic version of a new venture’s liability of newness; the field was considered pre-paradigmatic (Ireland et al., 2005b), bereft of theory or conceptual frameworks (Phan, 2004; Zahra and Dess, 2001) and so lacking in understanding that investigators could not agree on what constituted the phenomenon of interest: any kind of self-employment? New venture creation? Corporate venturing? Something else? All of the above (Gartner, 1990; Ireland et al., 2005a; Low, 2001, Vesper, 1982)?

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Gaglio, C.M., Winter, S. (2009). Entrepreneurial Alertness and Opportunity Identification: Where Are We Now?. In: Carsrud, A., Brännback, M. (eds) Understanding the Entrepreneurial Mind. International Studies in Entrepreneurship, vol 24. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-0443-0_14

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