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The presence of entrepreneurial opportunity

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  • Andrew Popp
  • Robin Holt

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Beginning in a critique of conceptualisations of entrepreneurial opportunity dominant in economics and entrepreneurship studies we draw on both the heterodox economics of G.L.S. Shackle and perspectives from phenomenology to recast entrepreneurship as an imaginative act of ‘making present’ unfolding through time and lived experience. We develop both the critique and the alternative perspective through a double reading of the case of T.E. Thomson and Co., a merchant house established in Calcutta in 1834.

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  • Andrew Popp & Robin Holt, 2013. "The presence of entrepreneurial opportunity," Business History, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 55(1), pages 9-28, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:bushst:v:55:y:2013:i:1:p:9-28
    DOI: 10.1080/00076791.2012.687539
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    1. Per Davidsson, 2023. "Ditching Discovery-Creation for Unified Venture Creation Research," Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, , vol. 47(2), pages 594-612, March.
    2. Eero Vaara & Juha-Antti Lamberg, 2016. "Taking historical embeddedness seriously : Three historical approaches to advance strategy process and practice research," Post-Print hal-02276732, HAL.
    3. Heinemann, Isabel & Reckendrees, Alfred, 2023. "Gendering the Company: A Critical Perspective on German Business History," MPRA Paper 119086, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    4. Ramoglou, Stratos, 2021. "Knowable opportunities in an unknowable future? On the epistemological paradoxes of entrepreneurship theory," Journal of Business Venturing, Elsevier, vol. 36(2).
    5. Innan Sasaki & Josip Kotlar & Davide Ravasi & Eero Vaara, 2020. "Dealing with revered past: Historical identity statements and strategic change in Japanese family firms," Strategic Management Journal, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 41(3), pages 590-623, March.
    6. Buchnea, Emily & Elsahn, Ziad, 2022. "Historical social network analysis: Advancing new directions for international business research," International Business Review, Elsevier, vol. 31(5).

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