Hill, Susan A. and Birkinshaw, Julian (2012) Idea sets: conceptualizing and measuring a new unit of analysis in entrepreneurship research. In: Shepherd, Dean A. and Grégoire, Denis, (eds.) Entrepreneurial Opportunities. The international library of entrepreneurship series. Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, UK. ISBN 9781781000465
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Idea sets—the complete stock of entrepreneurial ideas an individual has accessible within his or her memory at any given time—are proposed as a new unit of analysis through which the antecedents, processes, and outcomes of entrepreneurial opportunity recognition may be more fully understood. A number of dimensions are identified along which one person’s idea set may be compared with that of another person. These comprise the novelty, volume, content, stage of development, strategic value logic, and composite knowledge configuration of ideas within the idea set. The idea set construct and the methods advocated for its empirical operationalization provide a differentiated, comprehensive approach to investigating entrepreneurial opportunities. They also help to overcome sample selection and survival biases characterizing empirical research in this domain. A questionnaire-based idea set instrument, designed and tested in the corporate context, demonstrates good evidence of content, convergent and divergent validities.
| Item Type: | Book Section |
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| Official URL: | http://www.e-elgar.com/ |
| Additional Information: | © 2012 Edward Elgar |
| Divisions: | Management |
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor > HD28 Management. Industrial Management |
| Date Deposited: | 28 May 2012 12:48 |
| Last Modified: | 09 Oct 2024 11:17 |
| URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/44087 |
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