(Nowy Sacz School of Business – National-Louis University, 2015) Omri, Ahlem; Boujelbene, Younes
Entrepreneurial teams play an extremely important role in the development of any
country, especially in developing countries. To understand entrepreneurial teams that
operate in a low-technology industry, we rely on the network and human perspective
on entrepreneurship. In this paper, we investigate how the social and human capital
of entrepreneurial team members influences their ability to identify entrepreneurial
opportunities and mobilize external resources. We extend prior research in two ways.
First, by using the ordered probit method to measure the identified entrepreneurial
opportunities number at the level of entrepreneurial teams. Second, to our
knowledge, there is a very small number of studies that have theoretically and
empirically investigated the mobilization of external resources, especially at the level
of entrepreneurial teams.