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Opportunity recognition: delineating the process and motivators for serial entrepreneurs

Boris Urban
South African Journal of Economic and Management Sciences | Vol 12, No 4 | a192 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.4102/sajems.v12i4.192 | © 2011 Boris Urban | This work is licensed under CC Attribution 4.0
Submitted: 20 April 2011 | Published: 26 April 2011

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Boris Urban, Wits Business School, South Africa

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Opportunity recognition is a fundamental research issue in entrepreneurship which this paper empirically investigates for serial entrepreneurs. Initially key definitions and boundary conditions of opportunity recognition are explored to elucidate the relevant motivators driving serial entrepreneurs. After operationalising the various concepts, data is collected by surveying serial entrepreneurs (n= 77) based on pre-determined selection criteria. Since the study’s objective is to build solid theory on these new phenomena, descriptive analysis on the empirical results is provided. To test the hypotheses inferential statistics employing parametric and non-parametric tests are used. The findings reveal that the opportunity recognition behaviours are manifest among serial entrepreneurs, with few significant differences on how many new, major businesses have been pursued, or whether they can be said to be successes.

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