INFORMATION EXPOSURE, OPPORTUNITY EVALUATION, AND ENTREPRENEURIAL ACTION: AN INVESTIGATION OF AN ONLINE USER COMMUNITY

被引:199
作者
Autio, Erkko [1 ]
Dahlander, Linus
Frederiksen, Lars [2 ]
机构
[1] Imperial Coll Business Sch, London, England
[2] Aarhus Univ, Sch Business & Social Sci, Innovat Management Grp, DK-8000 Aarhus C, Denmark
关键词
SOCIAL NETWORKS; LEAD USERS; INNOVATION; DISCOVERY; RECOGNITION; KNOWLEDGE; CREATION; MARKET; FIELD; EXPLOITATION;
D O I
10.5465/amj.2010.0328
中图分类号
F [经济];
学科分类号
02 ;
摘要
We study how an individual's exposure to external information regulates the evaluation of entrepreneurial opportunities and entrepreneurial action. Combining data from interviews, a survey, and a comprehensive web log of an online user community spanning eight years, we find that technical information shaped opportunity evaluation and that social information about user needs drove individuals to entrepreneurial action. Our empirical findings suggest that reducing demand uncertainty is a central factor regulating entrepreneurial action, an insight that received theories of entrepreneurial action have so far overlooked.
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页码:1348 / 1371
页数:24
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