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

来源：

ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT JOURNAL | 2013年 / 56卷 / 05期

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.

引用

页码：1348 / 1371

页数：24

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