This study focuses on individual managers’ ambidextrous learning and examines its psychological antecedents consequences in the new product development (NPD) context. Specifically, drawing paradox theory regulatory focus theory, this relationship between (i.e., promotion prevention focus), learning, NPD opportunity recognition, from ambidexterity perspective. Based survey data of 225 managers h...

To most, opportunity recognition and exploitation are the key activities of entrepreneurship. In their 1989 paper on the subject the authors identified a factor structure useful in explaining the process. The present work compares the 1998 results with the 1989 results. Evidence is provided that there is a stable temporal model of opportunity recognition and exploitation.

I present dynamic RBV and dynamic equilibrating process with the pattern recognition models 10 and entrepreneurial subjectivism. Opportunity is defined into two ways; value creating chance in RBV, 11 and equilibrating or dis-equilibrating chance in Austrian economics. According to pattern recognition 12 model with subjectivism, individual agents recognize opportunity with their own subjective c...

Article history: Received 22 October 2007 Received in revised form 30 June 2008 Accepted 13 August 2008 While research in entrepreneurship continues to increase general understanding of the opportunity-recognition process, questions about its nature nonetheless persist. In this study, we seek to complement recent research that relates “the self” to the opportunity-recognition process by deepeni...

To better understand opportunity creation, we investigate the extent to which recognition of failure impacts the new transaction commitment mindset of entrepreneurs. In a PLS model, we utilize data gathered from a sample of 220 entrepreneurs, and augment these results with an ANOVA analysis that provides a deeper exploration of the theory. In this article, we: (1) elaborate on the critical dime...

An essential component of opportunistic behavior is opportunity recognition, the recognition of those conditions that facilitate the pursuit of some suspended goal. Opportunity recognition is a special case of situation assessment, the process of sizing up a novel situation. The ability to recognize opportunities for reinstating suspended problem contexts (one way in which goals manifest themse...

Entrepreneurship, which is the process of identifying, evaluating and developing opportunities, has been recently identified as the most important element in the economic development of countries in various areas and industries, including banking industry. Since opportunity identification is the first step in entrepreneurship, the present research attempts to investigate and prioritize the indi...