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Entrepreneurial Alertness: An Exploratory Study 2013th Edition
Author(s): Zhineng Li (Author)
- Publisher: Springer
- Publication Date: 17 Oct. 2012
- Edition: 2013th
- Language: English
- Print length: 164 pages
- ISBN-10: 3642310974
- ISBN-13: 9783642310973
Book Description
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.
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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.
A four-dimension structure of the entrepreneurial alertness construct is created, namely juxtaposing, unlearning, prospecting and embellishing.
A comprehensive model of entrepreneurial alertness are adopted and tested via structural equation modeling on the basis of survey data from 1080 entrepreneurs in two coastal regions of P. R. China.
