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Opportunity discovery, entrepreneurial action, and economic organization

2008

Peter G. Klein

This article reviews and critiques the opportunity discovery approach to entrepreneurship and argues that entrepreneurship can be more thoroughly grounded, and more closely linked to more general problems of economic organization by adopting the Cantillon-Knight-Mises understanding of entrepreneurship as judgment. The article begins by distinguishing among occupational, structural, and functional approaches to entrepreneurship and distinguishing among two influential interpretations of the entrepreneurial functionโ€”discovery and judgment. It turns next to the contemporary literature on opportunity identification and argues that this literature misinterprets Kirznerโ€™s instrumental use of the discovery metaphor and mistakenly makes opportunities the unit of analysis. The article then describes an alternative approach in which investment is the unit of analysis and link this approach to Austrian capital theory. I close with some applications to organizational form and entrepreneurial teams. Copyright ยฉ 2008 Strategic Management Society.

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