Entrepreneurship through a qualitative lens: Insights on the construction and/or discovery of entrepreneurial opportunity

Journal of Business Venturing

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 1-10

  Suddaby, Roy ^a,b   Bruton, Garry D ^c,d   Si, Steven X ^e,f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^b NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY BUSINESS SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

^c TEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^f BLOOMSBURG UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Entrepreneurial Opportunity; Imprinting and Reflexivity; Qualitative Methods

Indexed keywords

EID: 84909594956     PISSN: 08839026     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbusvent.2014.09.003     Document Type: Article

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