Operational Entrepreneurship: How Operations Management Research Can Advance Entrepreneurship

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Shepherd, Dean A.; Patzelt, Holger
• 署名单位: Indiana University System; IU Kelley School of Business; Indiana University Bloomington; Technical University of Munich
• 刊物名称: PRODUCTION AND OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT
• ISSN/ISSBN: 1059-1478
• DOI: 10.1111/j.1937-5956.2011.01264.x
• 发表日期: 2013
• 页码: 1416-1422
• 关键词: OPPORTUNITY RECOGNITION; OPPORTUNITY EVALUATION; opportunity exploitation; operational entrepreneurship; entrepreneurial operations

摘要

In this article, we introduce the notion of operational entrepreneurshipthe selection and management of transformation processes for recognizing, evaluating, and exploiting opportunities for potential value creationto offer examples of research opportunities at the interface of entrepreneurship and operations management. Specifically, we believe that operations management has been under-utilized for gaining a deeper understanding of (i) the knowledge and motivation required for opportunity recognition, (ii) evaluations of a recognized opportunity to determine if it represents an opportunity for the specific entrepreneur, and (iii) the role that feedback from an exploitation of a current opportunity plays in the recognition and evaluation of subsequent opportunities. We also introduce (but not develop) the notion of entrepreneurial operations.