Alertness Theory

Alertness Theory is a theoretical framework within the opportunity discovery literature that posits entrepreneurial opportunities are identified through an individual’s heightened perceptual awareness and cognitive readiness to recognize gaps in market equilibria without deliberate search or asymmetric information.

149

Publications

12.7K

Citations

336

Authors

208

Institutions

Publications per year

2017–2026

Parents

Opportunity Discovery

Publications

149

The Psychological Basis of Opportunity Identification: Entrepreneurial Alertness

Connie Marie Gaglio, Jerome A. Katz · Small Business Economics · 2001 · 1.2K citations

Business, Entrepreneurship, Organizational Behavior +16

Entrepreneurial alertness in the pursuit of new opportunities

Jintong Tang, K. Michele Kacmar, Lowell W. Busenitz · Journal of Business Venturing · 2010 · 982 citations

Business, Entrepreneurship, Strategic Management +14

Behavioral and cognitive factors in entrepreneurship: entrepreneurs as the active element in new venture creation

Robert A. Baron · Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal · 2007 · 570 citations

Business, Entrepreneurship, Psychology +17

Creativity and/or Alertness: A Reconsideration of the Schumpeterian Entrepreneur

Israel M. Kirzner · The Review of Austrian Economics · 1999 · 550 citations

Management, Entrepreneurship, Creativity +11

Aromatherapy Positively Affects Mood, Eeg Patterns of Alertness and Math Computations

Miguel Diego, Nancy Aaron Jones, T Field et al. · International Journal of Neuroscience · 1998 · 382 citations

Social Sciences, Behavioral Sciences, Psychology +17

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Authors

336

JT
Jintong Tang
Saint Louis University, United States
10 publications · 1.7K citations
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LW
Lowell W. Busenitz
University of Oklahoma, United States
3 publications · 1.3K citations
3
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DW
Daniel W. Smothergill
Syracuse University, United States
3 publications · 64 citations
3
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TÅ
Torbjörn Åkerstedt
Karolinska Institutet, Sweden
3 publications · 357 citations
3
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RA
Robert A. Baron
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, United States
3 publications · 777 citations
3
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Institutions

208

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Venues

Journal of Small Business Management
JSBM · 7 publications · 540 citations
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Journal of Experimental Psychology Human Perception & Performance
5 publications · 200 citations
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Journal of Business Research
JBR · 4 publications · 254 citations
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SSRN Electronic Journal
Repository · 4 publications · 231 citations
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International Entrepreneurship and Management Journal
IEMJ · 4 publications · 282 citations
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