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Entrepreneurial Alertness

An Exploratory Study

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Authors:
  1. Zhineng Li

    1. The State Council of P.R.C, Enterprise Research Institute, Development Research Center, Beijing, China, People's Republic

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  • This study examines entrepreneurial alertness at the individual level

  • The study made two key contributions to the descriptive and normative theory of alertness

  • This study provides an integrative perspective on the relationships of the variables in the model

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvi
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  2. Introduction

    • Zhineng Li
    Pages 1-6

  3. The Construct of Entrepreneurial Alertness

    • Zhineng Li
    Pages 7-29

  4. An Integrative Model of Entrepreneurial Alertness

    • Zhineng Li
    Pages 31-49

  5. Methodology

    • Zhineng Li
    Pages 51-66

  6. Findings

    • Zhineng Li
    Pages 67-105

  7. Discussions

    • Zhineng Li
    Pages 107-123

  8. Back Matter

    Pages 125-148
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About this book

Entrepreneurial alertness plays an important role in the processes of opportunity exploration and exploitation. A central thesis of this dissertation is that opportunity creation requires a certain transformation of an individual entrepreneur’s mental schema. This study examines entrepreneurial alertness at the individual level. A comprehensive model of entrepreneurial alertness are created and tested via structural equation modeling on the basis of survey data from 1080 entrepreneurs in two coastal regions of P. R. China.

Authors and Affiliations

  • The State Council of P.R.C, Enterprise Research Institute, Development Research Center, Beijing, China, People's Republic

    Zhineng Li

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Entrepreneurial Alertness

  • Book Subtitle: An Exploratory Study

  • Authors: Zhineng Li

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-31098-0

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Business and Economics, Business and Management (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2013

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-642-31097-3Published: 17 October 2012

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-43299-6Published: 09 November 2014

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-31098-0Published: 16 October 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVI, 148

  • Topics: Entrepreneurship

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