Opportunities Lie in the Demand Side: Transcending the Discovery-Creation Debate

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Academy of Management ReviewVol. 43, No. 4 DialogueOpportunities Lie in the Demand Side: Transcending the Discovery-Creation DebateStratos Ramoglou and Eric W. K. TsangStratos Ramoglou() University of Southampton and Eric W. K. Tsang() University of Texas at DallasPublished Online:11 Oct 2018https://doi.org/10.5465/amr.2018.0239AboutSectionsView articleView Full TextPDF/EPUB ToolsDownload CitationsAdd to favoritesTrack Citations ShareShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail View articleREFERENCESAlvarez, S. A., & Barney, J. B. 2007. Discovery and creation: Alternative theories of entrepreneurial action. Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, 1: 11–26. Google ScholarAlvarez, S. A., Barney, J. B., McBride, R., & Wuebker, R. 2014. Realism in the study of entrepreneurship. Academy of Management Review, 39: 227–231.Link , Google ScholarAlvarez, S. A., Barney, J. B., McBride, R., & Wuebker, R. 2017. On opportunities: Philosophical and empirical implications. Academy of Management Review, 42: 726–730.Link , Google ScholarBerglund, H., & Korsgaard, S. 2017. Opportunities, time, and mechanisms in entrepreneurship: On the practical irrelevance of propensities. Academy of Management Review, 42: 730–733.Link , Google ScholarBraver, L., & Danneels, E. 2018. Propensities return us to the discovery-creation debate about entrepreneurial opportunities. Academy of Management Review, 43: 812–815.Abstract , Google ScholarCasson, M., & Wadeson, N. 2007. The discovery of opportunities: Extending the economic theory of the entrepreneur. Small Business Economics, 28: 285–300. Google ScholarDavidsson, P. 2015. Entrepreneurial opportunities and the entrepreneurship nexus: A re-conceptualization. Journal of Business Venturing, 30: 674–695. Google ScholarDavidsson, P. 2017. Entrepreneurial opportunities as propensities: Do Ramoglou & Tsang move the field forward? Journal of Business Venturing Insights, 7: 82–85. Google ScholarFoss, N. J., & Klein, P. G. 2017. Entrepreneurial discovery or creation? In search of the middle ground. Academy of Management Review, 42: 733–736.Link , Google ScholarKirzner, I. M. 1973. Competition and entrepreneurship. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Google ScholarRamoglou, S., & Tsang, E. W. K. 2016. A realist perspective of entrepreneurship: Opportunities as propensities. Academy of Management Review, 41: 410–434.Link , Google ScholarRamoglou, S., & Tsang, E. W. 2017a. In defense of common sense in entrepreneurship theory: Beyond philosophical extremities and linguistic abuses. Academy of Management Review, 42: 736–744.Link , Google ScholarRamoglou, S., & Tsang, E. W. K. 2017b. Accepting the unknowables of entrepreneurship and overcoming philosophical obstacles to scientific progress. Journal of Business Venturing Insights, 8: 71–77. Google ScholarShane, S. 2012. Reflections on the 2010 AMR Decade Award: Delivering on the promise of entrepreneurship as a field of research. Academy of Management Review, 37: 10–20.Link , Google ScholarShane, S., & Venkataraman, S. 2000. The promise of entrepreneurship as a field of research. Academy of Management Review, 25: 217–226.Link , Google ScholarFiguresReferencesRelatedDetailsCited bySocial Objectivity and Entrepreneurial OpportunitiesRuss McBride and Robert Wuebker10 January 2022 | Academy of Management Review, Vol. 47, No. 1 Vol. 43, No. 4 Permissions Metrics in the past 12 months History Published online 11 October 2018 Published in print 1 October 2018 Information© Academy of Management ReviewDownload PDF