Many scholars argue that from a cognitive perspective the creative act of opportunity recognition can be conceptualized as a transformation process of bringing together previously unrelated knowledge in order to create a new means-ends framework. Along these lines, the present paper empirically...

Although there is evidence that regulatory focus is associated with opportunity exploitation, there is a lack of research examining its role at the early stages of opportunity recognition. The present study makes two major contributions to address this gap. First, we demonstrate that...

An increasingly global venture capital (VC) business raises the question whether foreign VCs'investments pull economic activity away from domestic economies. Using a large sample ofVC-backed European ventures, we analyze whether involvement of foreign VCs influencesfirms' and entrepreneurs'...