TY - JOUR
T1 - Advancing entrepreneurial alertness research
T2 - Theoretical, empirical, and Asia Pacific perspectives
AU - Tang, Jintong
AU - Ahlstrom, David
AU - Pollack, Jeffrey M.
AU - Corbett, Andrew C.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature 2025.
PY - 2025/3
Y1 - 2025/3
N2 - Researchers have widely acknowledged entrepreneurial alertness (EA) as one of the most influential aspects of the key concept of opportunity recognition. Systematic literature reviews and meta-analysis have demonstrated quite unambiguously that alertness leads to entrepreneurial actions, which facilitates the overall entrepreneurial process. In this paper, we provide an overview of the extant research on EA. We also introduce the seven new papers included in this special issue of Asia Pacific Journal of Management on entrepreneurial alertness. These manuscripts offer a broad range of novel insights into the conceptualization, measurement, and nomological network of, as well as the antecedents and consequences of, EA in the context of the Asia Pacific region. We also discuss common themes and directions for future research on EA.
AB - Researchers have widely acknowledged entrepreneurial alertness (EA) as one of the most influential aspects of the key concept of opportunity recognition. Systematic literature reviews and meta-analysis have demonstrated quite unambiguously that alertness leads to entrepreneurial actions, which facilitates the overall entrepreneurial process. In this paper, we provide an overview of the extant research on EA. We also introduce the seven new papers included in this special issue of Asia Pacific Journal of Management on entrepreneurial alertness. These manuscripts offer a broad range of novel insights into the conceptualization, measurement, and nomological network of, as well as the antecedents and consequences of, EA in the context of the Asia Pacific region. We also discuss common themes and directions for future research on EA.
KW - Entrepreneurial alertness
KW - Opportunity
KW - Recognition
KW - Social cognition
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85218874629
U2 - 10.1007/s10490-025-10010-y
DO - 10.1007/s10490-025-10010-y
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85218874629
SN - 0217-4561
VL - 42
SP - 43
EP - 55
JO - Asia Pacific Journal of Management
JF - Asia Pacific Journal of Management
IS - 1
ER -
