Entrepreneurial Alertness in Opportunity Identification and Opportunity Development

Opportunity recognition, evaluation, and exploitation are considered by many to be the heart of entrepreneurship (Shane & Venkataraman 2000; Zahra, 2008) and a construct well connected to opportunity recognition is entrepreneurial alertness. In this paper, a model is presented to extend the contributions already made in this area, particularly the work of Tang, Kacmar, & Busenitz (2012) and Valliere (2013), by further delineating the components...