Organizing Entrepreneurship

1   Sources of Entrepreneurship

Opportunities

Chapter 1 Contents*

1.1 Structural sources of opportunities: reducing and creating disequilibria

1.2 Relational sources of opportunities: social network management

1.3 Cognitive sources of opportunities: entrepreneurial decision making

Texts on entrepreneurship typically provide reviews of the main “alternative theories of entrepreneurship” that economic and management scientists have produced (Casson 2003; Shane 2003). Rather than being seen as alternative theories though, these contributions can be understood and used as indicating a variety of “sources” of entrepreneurship or “types of opportunities” that can be recognized by decision makers. Defining a reasoned repertory, if not a typology, ...