TY - JOUR
T1 - Information exposure, opportunity evaluation and entrepreneurial action
T2 - An empirical investigation of an online user community
AU - Autio, E.
AU - Dahlander, L.
AU - Frederiksen, Lars
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - We study how an individual's exposure to external information regulates the evaluation of entrepreneurial opportunities and entrepreneurial action. Combining data from interviews, a survey, and a comprehensive web log of an online user community spanning eight years, we find that technical information shaped opportunity evaluation, and social information about user needs drove individuals to entrepreneurial action. Our empirical findings suggest that reducing demand uncertainty is a central factor regulating of entrepreneurial action, an insight that received theories of entrepreneurial action have so far overlooked.
AB - We study how an individual's exposure to external information regulates the evaluation of entrepreneurial opportunities and entrepreneurial action. Combining data from interviews, a survey, and a comprehensive web log of an online user community spanning eight years, we find that technical information shaped opportunity evaluation, and social information about user needs drove individuals to entrepreneurial action. Our empirical findings suggest that reducing demand uncertainty is a central factor regulating of entrepreneurial action, an insight that received theories of entrepreneurial action have so far overlooked.
KW - entrepreneurial action
KW - action theory of entrepreneurship
KW - information exposure
KW - user entrepreneurship
U2 - 10.5465/amj.2010.0328
DO - 10.5465/amj.2010.0328
M3 - Journal article
SN - 0001-4273
VL - 56
SP - 1348
EP - 1371
JO - Academy of Management Journal
JF - Academy of Management Journal
IS - 5
ER -