Gentlemen,
I am particularly interested in this subject.
Here in Brazil, GEM reports are well received and got great relevance in
both open media and local academic papers. I know many teachers who
teach necessity/opportunity data facts in their classes but I have
several restrictions on this part of the study mainly because the
reports just show a generalized view of the data.
The snapshot of the moment entrepreneur start the business, measured by
the GEM team, not necessarily reflects how successful the business will
be in the future. The way the data is presented easily drives to wrong
conclusions that necessity entrepreneurship is undesired because has
more potential to failure.
My empirical observations have already shown that some entrepreneurs who
started the business for necessity have detected an opportunity in some
moment of their business life cycle, while, on the other hand, some
opportunity entrepreneurs came out to a necessity to take some decisions
that compromised the whole business (get a loan, change a supplier, fire
a key employee, etc). In other words, seeing the necessity/opportunity
only as the motivation to start the business seems to be a narrow and
limited view about entrepreneurship when considered against the same
necessity/opportunity situations that can occur several times along the
business life cycle.
I am currently working in an partnership agreement to GEM Consortium
representants in Brazil to access data for a longitudinal analysis over
the data to study this hipothesis. Any coleague with local country GEM
database access who wants to join efforts on this study is welcome to
share your thoughts and maybe join the team.
Best regards
Marcos Hashimoto
Entrepreneurship Center |
marcosh@insper.org.br
300, Quata st | ZIP 04546-042 | Sao Paulo | Brazil
Phone + 55 11 4504 2713 | Skype-id mhashimo |
www.insper.org.br
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Em nome de William B. Gartner
Enviada em: segunda-feira, 12 de outubro de 2009 10:56
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Assunto: Re: [ENTREP] Pushes and Pulls When an Economy Does Not Pull Its
Punches
Hi.
The necessity versus opportunity idea is more fully developed in the GEM
studies. I would not attach the idea of (necessity versus opportunity)
to
the PSED, per se.
There have been a number of working papers floating around that have
pointed out a number of conceptual and empirical problems with the
opportunity/necessity construct, but, I can't seem to find them.
And, I think a better way to use the necessity versus opportunity
construct is to not think of it as uni-dimensional. It would be better
to
think of opportunity as one dimension, and, necessity as another
dimension, so, you have a two by two matrix. From this perspective, one
could be driven by both opportunity and necessity. So, I do not think
it
is "either - or." It can be both, or not at all, as well.
Best
Bill
William B. Gartner
Spiro Professor of Entrepreneurial Leadership
Spiro Institute for Entrepreneurial Leadership
345 Sirrine Hall
Clemson University
Clemson, SC 29634-1345
gartner@clemson.edu
william.b.gartner@gmail.com
> Saw something interesting that got me to thinking. This year, our MBA
> level
> intro to entrepreneurship (start-your own business) course is packed
> beyond
> capacity, while we have empty seats in our other intro course,
corporate
> entrepreneurship. Talked with students in each. Here is the question.
>
> We talk today about necessity vs. opportunity driven entrepreneurship
> (thanks PSED). In earlier days, it was push vs. pull (thanks Karl
Vesper).
> But what are we seeing when students with jobs are taking a
> start-your-own-business course because they are worried about long
term
> employment prospects (aside from "trying to be good providers")? They
> don't
> sound like they're being pulled by the lure of self-employment, but
their
> firm has not taken overt steps to push them out either.
>
> This situation is very real, but also seems to call into question how
we
> normally talk about opportunity/pull or necessity/push type thinking.
>
> Anyone have some thoughts to share on this and any tweaks we may need
to
> give our opportunity models and definitions? (A new research
direction!)
>
> Respond to the list. I think people will want to hear what everyone
has to
> say about this.
>
> Thanks,
> Jerry
>
> --
> Jerome A. Katz
> Coleman Foundation Chair in Entrepreneurship
> John Cook School of Business, Saint Louis University
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>
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