Using Activity Theory to Understand Entrepreneurial Opportunity
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12428522 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Robin Holt (0000-0003-0610-4049, Liverpool University School of Management, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2008 |
| Volume | 15 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 52-70 |
| Publication date | 2008-01-15 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Mind Culture and Activity (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1074-9039 • E-ISSN: 1532-7884 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/10749030701800957 |
| OpenAlex | W1680635923 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 52 |
Entrepreneurship is often described as the ability to recognize and exploit opportunities. Identifying opportunities is intentional and idiosyncratic insofar as they are recognized as opportunities is a novel and conscious event (otherwise the entrepreneur would be doing nothing new). Yet opportunities also have to be recognized by others as ones that are worthy of being recognized and pursued; the opportunity is a socially embedded construct. Thus opportunity recognition and pursuit can be understood as the skillful integration of prevailing and emerging objects and relations of business activity typically articulated through collaborative enterprise. To expand on this view I use an activity theory perspective that shows how the potentially transformative character of entrepreneurial opportunities unfurls from within the historical and cultural reproduction of collective activities. I note, however, different emphases within current takes on activity theory, notably between subjective perspectives and op
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Human nature and conduct
Process Metaphysics
Re-Embedding Situatedness
Prior Knowledge and the Discovery of Entrepreneurial Opportunities
The Promise of Entrepreneurship as a Field of Research
Improvising firms
Activity theory as a framework for analyzing and redesigning work
Peripheral Vision
Clarifying the Entrepreneurial Orientation Construct and Linking It to Performance
The effects of embeddedness on the entrepreneurial process
Bridging Epistemologies
The Promise of Enterpreneurship as a Field of Research
Knowledge‐based resources, entrepreneurial orientation, and the performance of small and medium‐sized businesses
Expansive Learning at Work
Philosophy and Ordinary Language
Must we mean what we say? 1
The Discursive Construction of Collaborative Care
Some Proposals for Strengthening Organizational Activity Theory
Organizing Processes in Complex Activity Networks
Epistemic Objects, Artefacts and Organizational Change
Activity theory and individual and social transformation
The Human Condition
The Human Condition
The Systemic-Structural Theory of Activity
An Introduction to Dewey's Theory of Functional "Trans-Action"
The Object of Activity
Artifact Mediation in Dewey and in Cultural-Historical Activity Theory
Expansive Visibilization of Work
Entrepreneurship as a science of the artificial
Knowledge Work
Vita Contemplativa
On the Life of the Object
"From Thing to Sign and "Natural Object
The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters
Meaning, normativity and the life of the mind
| Unique citing works | 3 |
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| Citations per year | 0,3 |
| Citation span | 2016 - 2026 (11) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |