Entrepreneurial Alertness: An Exploratory Study
Entrepreneurial Alertness: An Exploratory Study By Zhineng Li
2012 | 160 Pages | ISBN: 3642310974 | PDF | 1 MB
2012 | 160 Pages | ISBN: 3642310974 | PDF | 1 MB
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.