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...

We empirically study how opportunity cost of entrepreneurship conditions entrepreneurial performance. We assume that entrepreneurs in high tech startups aim to “cash out”, by being acquired on favorable terms or through an IPO. Entrepreneurs with few alternative opportunities will tend to linger on as long as they can in the hopes of cashing out, whereas those with plentiful opportunities have ...

Objectives and Prior Work The relationship between self-efficacy and entrepreneurial intentions, opportunity recognition and career persistence is well established in the entrepreneurship literature. In addition to being a predictor of entrepreneurial behaviour, an individual's level of entrepreneurial self-efficacy (ESE) has repeatedly been shown to have a lasting legacy on venture growth and ...

We continue the conversation in SO! about possible beneficial relationships between the fields of entrepreneurship and strategic organization, consistent with SO!’s ambition of reducing the distances currently separating fields that share research phenomena (Baum et al., 2003). We do so with a focus on how entrepreneurship (ENT) – as a field with a central focus on dynamic, complex, disequilibr...

— The Economics of Happiness is one of the research areas of greatest growth in recent years. Throughout this work, a venture based model in which satisfaction of Spanish entrepreneurs with their professional life is performed. We analyze the responses of 9,989 entrepreneurs using data from the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM), and six hypothesis are discussed. The results show that, for t...