Imperial College London
Alternate

Professor Erkko Autio FBA

Business School

Chair in Technology Transfer and Entrepreneurship
 
 
 
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Contact

 

+44 (0)20 7594 1991erkko.autio CV

 
 
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Assistant

 

Ms Rachel Jury +44 (0)20 7594 5926

 
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Location

 

388Business School BuildingSouth Kensington Campus

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Summary

 

Publications

Citation

BibTex format

@article{Autio:2013:10.5465/amj.2010.0328,
author = {Autio, E and Dahlander, L and Frederiksen, L},
doi = {10.5465/amj.2010.0328},
journal = {Academy of Management Journal},
title = {Information exposure, opportunity evaluation and entrepreneurial action: An empirical investigation of an online user community},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.5465/amj.2010.0328},
volume = {n/a},
year = {2013}
}
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RIS format (EndNote, RefMan)

TY  - JOUR
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.
AU  - Autio,E
AU  - Dahlander,L
AU  - Frederiksen,L
DO  - 10.5465/amj.2010.0328
PY  - 2013///
SN  - 0001-4273
TI  - Information exposure, opportunity evaluation and entrepreneurial action: An empirical investigation of an online user community
T2  - Academy of Management Journal
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.5465/amj.2010.0328
VL  - n/a
ER  -
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