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Entrepreneurial Alertness And Paying Attention

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  • DAVE VALLIERE

    (Ted Rogers School of Management, Ryerson University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada)

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This article uses theoretical approaches from cognitive psychology to examine the basis for entrepreneurial alertness and to connect it to existing theories of attention in strategic management and decision-making. It thereby provides a theoretical basis for understanding how entrepreneurial alertness leads the individual to pay attention to new opportunities. A model is developed to show how attention and entrepreneurial alertness work together to support the recognition or creation of opportunities. Entrepreneurial alertness is believed to be a manifestation of differences in the schemata and cognitive frameworks that individuals use to make sense of changes in the environment. This suggests that entrepreneurial alertness mediates the impact of observed phenomena upon the situated attention of individual decision-makers.

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  • Dave Valliere, 2013. "Entrepreneurial Alertness And Paying Attention," Journal of Enterprising Culture (JEC), World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., vol. 21(01), pages 1-17.
    • Handle: RePEc:wsi:jecxxx:v:21:y:2013:i:01:n:s0218495813500015
    DOI: 10.1142/S0218495813500015
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    1. Kirzner, Israel M., 2008. "The Alert and Creative Entrepreneur: A Clarification," Working Paper Series 760, Research Institute of Industrial Economics.
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