Core Entrepreneurial Concepts

Core concepts
Entrepreneurship vs. "entrepreneurial"
Entrepreneurial agency
Entrepreneurial orientation (EO) = innovativeness, risk-taking or attitude, proactiveness (vs.
reactive), competitive aggressiveness
Entrepreneurial motivation
Entrepreneurial intention (attitudes, behavior, beliefs, perceptions)
Entrepreneurial cognition (opportunity identification, perceive connections, alertness,
expertise, information processing, mental patterns)
Entrepreneurial ability or capability (innate or learned?)
Entrepreneurial action or agency (action under ambiguity, futures unknown, risk,
exploitation, imaginativeness or imagining futures)
Opportunity identification or recognition
Opportunity exploitation
Transformative capacity
Entrepreneurial process (in time)
Entrepreneurial Success and Failure

Who? (And how does it matter?)

Corporate or strategic entrepreneurship
 Intrapreneurship
 Disruptive innovation
Social entrepreneurship
International social entrepreneurship
Community entrepreneurship
International entrepreneurship (discovery, enactment, assessment, exploitation of
opportunities abroad)
Institutional entrepreneurship
Political entrepreneurship
Cultural entrepreneurship (new norms, values, behavior)
Opportunity vs. necessity-based entrepreneurship
Female Entrepreneurship
Family Firm Entrepreneurship
Immigrant Entrepreneurship
Refugee Entrepreneurship

New venturing (i.e. new firms)

International new ventures (INVs) vs. "born globals" and Micro-multinationals
New value creation
Novelty
Innovation
Organizational creation
Norm creation
Uncertainty vs. risk
Creative action
Human agency (in general) vs. entrepreneurial agency (specifically)

Institutions (formal vs. informal)

Governance (firms and nations)
Institutional voids
Embeddedness
Context
Entrepreneurial ecosystems
Embeddedness
Networks
Social capital
Cultural capital
Financial capital or access to capital
Knowledge spillover theory of entrepreneurship