Title :
Entrepreneurial Alertness: Mental Schema to Entrepreneurship Opportunity Recognition
Author :
Miao, Qing ; Yu, Chen
Author_Institution :
Coll. of Economic & Manage., Zhejiang Sci-Tech Univ., Hangzhou, China
Abstract :
The author developed a scale for entrepreneurial alertness on the basis of previous literature. Two samples of entrepreneurs (n = 104, n = 277) were investigated, in comparison with one sample of managers (n = 166). After EFA, CFA and MANOVA, the results indicated: (1) The conceptual model was comprised of three aspects (prospecting, reframing and sensitive foresight), with acceptable statistical parameters. (2) Significant difference existed among those three dimensions between entrepreneurs and managers, and were varied with prior experiences.
Keywords :
commerce; statistical analysis; MANOVA; entrepreneurial alertness; entrepreneurship opportunity recognition; mental schema; statistical parameters; Business; Financial management; Frequency; Human resource management; Innovation management; Marketing management; Monitoring; Probes; Research and development management; Testing;
Conference_Titel :
Management and Service Science, 2009. MASS '09. International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Wuhan
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-4638-4
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-4639-1
DOI :
10.1109/ICMSS.2009.5304122
