Abstract
The knowledge that is acquired through a mentoring relationship could stimulate the novice entrepreneur’s ability to recognize new opportunities. At the same time, a mentee’s learning goal orientation (LGO) influences mentoring relationships by increasing mentee outcomes. The aim of this research is to verify whether a novice entrepreneur’s learning can help him develop his ability to recognize business opportunities and whether the entrepreneur’s LGO has an impact on this relationship. Based on a sample of 360 mentees and a longitudinal follow-up for 106 of these respondents, results show that mentoring supports the opportunity recognition process, as well as LGO, but that a high LGO decreases the effect of mentoring on the ability to recognize opportunities, which confirms the moderating role of LGO in the relationship between these variables.
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