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Entrepreneurial Alertness and Opportunity Identification: Where Are We Now?

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Revisiting the Entrepreneurial Mind

Part of the book series: International Studies in Entrepreneurship ((ISEN,volume 35))

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Since its inception, entrepreneurship has struggled with the academic version of a new venture’s liability of newness; the field was considered pre-paradigmatic (Research methodology in strategy and management, New York, pp 1–32, 2005b), bereft of theory or conceptual frameworks (J Bus Ventur 19:617–620, 2004; Acad Manage Rev 26):8–11, 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 (J Bus Ventur 5:15–28, 1990; Acad Manage J 48:556–564, 2005a; Entrep Theory Pract 26:17–25, 2001, Encyclopedia of entrepreneurship, Englewood Cliffs, 1982)?

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  1. Ohrenschall Center for Entrepreneurship, San Francisco State University, 835 Market Street Suite 550, San Francisco, CA, 94103, USA

    Connie Marie Gaglio

  2. School of Information Studies, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, 20742-4345, USA

    Susan Winter

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Gaglio, C.M., Winter, S. (2017). Entrepreneurial Alertness and Opportunity Identification: Where Are We Now?. In: Brännback, M., Carsrud, A. (eds) Revisiting the Entrepreneurial Mind. International Studies in Entrepreneurship, vol 35. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-45544-0_21

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