dc.contributor.author | Klein, Peter G. | |
dc.contributor.author | Foss, Nicolai Juul | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2010-05-12T10:20:58Z | |
dc.date.available | 2010-05-12T10:20:58Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2008-10 | |
dc.identifier.issn | 1503-5093 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11250/164318 | |
dc.description.abstract | The entrepeneurship literature in management focuses increasingly on opportunities — their
creation or discovery, evaluation, and exploitation — as the unit of analysis. We argue first,
that the opportunity perspective emerged from the “functional” literature in the economics of
entrepreneurship (mainly the works of Israel Kirzner), a literature that emphasizes not the in-
dividual entrepreneur per se, but the functions (e.g., market clearing) that entrepreneurs under-
take in a market economy; second, that most notions of entrepreneurship in economics and
management are not easily integrated into the theory of the firm; third, that the popular em-
phasis on opportunity discovery tends to direct attention from opportunity exploitation; and
fourth, that the Cantillon-Mises-Knight view of entrepreneurship as judgment links more na-
turally with the economic theory of the firm. | en |
dc.language.iso | eng | en |
dc.publisher | Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration. Department of Strategy and Management | en |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | Discussion paper | en |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | 2008:3 | en |
dc.subject | theories of entrepreneurship | en |
dc.subject | judgment | en |
dc.subject | opportunity discovery | en |
dc.title | The unit of analysis in entrepreneurship research : opportunities or investments? | en |
dc.type | Doctoral thesis | en |
dc.subject.nsi | VDP::Samfunnsvitenskap: 200::Økonomi: 210::Bedriftsøkonomi: 213 | en |