Two theories of entrepreneurial action - Discovery Theory and Creation Theory - are discussed. While Discovery Theory and its assumptions have been addressed in the literature, neither the assumptions of Creation Theory nor how they are related to the assumptions of Discovery Theory have yet...

Develops and applied the ideas of the resource-based theory to entrepreneurship; both share the same level of analysis, the firm. Extends the concepts of resources to include the various cognitive abilities possessed by the individual entrepreneur to create and combine new heterogenous...