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Impact Factors of Entrepreneurial Alertness  

Kim, Woo-Young (Dept. of Business Administration, Jeju National University)
Kim, Hyoung-Gil (Dept. of Business Administration, Jeju National University)
Hwangbo, Yun (Graduate School of Global Entrepreneurship, Kookmin University)
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Asia-Pacific Journal of Business Venturing and Entrepreneurship / v.13, no.1, 2018 , pp. 1-10 More about this Journal
Abstract
The importance of entrepreneurship has been emphasized recently from academia and government officials and studies trying to investigate entrepreneurial alertness as core competence of entrepreneurial mindset in the research field of entrepreneurship continue. In domestic academic research, research on entrepreneurial alertness has not yet been conducted in earnest, unlike the active flow of research overseas. This paper aims to investigate what factors influence entrepreneurial alertness in the Korean environment, we conducted an empirical analysis through a questionnaire survey for CEOs of small and medium enterprises in Seoul, Gyeonggi province. In this study, we selected prior knowledge of markets and technology, positive attitude, social network, number of books per month as independent variables on entrepreneurial agility based on Ardichvili's Alertness model, and as control variables respondents' Demographic characteristics, such as gender, age, founding career were selected. According to the results of the empirical analysis, prior knowledge of markets and technology, positive attitudes, number of books per month as independent variables, showed positive influence on entrepreneurial alertness, showing statistical significance. However, the social network picked up measured variables by the number of regular meetings which are quantitative indicators, but found that there is no statistically significant effect on entrepreneurial alertness. Despite several limitations of this research, we investigate what factors influence entrepreneurial alertness through empirical research on entrepreneurial alertness impact factors that have not been explained in the domestic academic research. Although you saw it, it can be said that there is academic contribution.
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Entrepreneurial Alertness; Entrepreneurship; Entrepreneurial Mindset; Opportunity Recognition;
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