Entrepreneurship Notes CH 3

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Entrepreneurship Notes Ch.

 New Entry
o Includes
 New product in an established or new market
 Established product in a new market
 A new organization
o Entrepreneurial strategy
 Set of decisions, actions, and reactions that generate, and
exploit a new entry over time
 Figure 3.1 Entrepreneurial Strategy
o Big Picture on New entry Opportunity
 Resources
 Inputs
 Source of competitive advantage
 Basic building blocks of functioning
 Bundle:
 Entrepreneurial resource: ability to obtain/combine
resources into a bundle that is valuable or rare.
Drawn from the unique experience and knowledge
of the entrepreneurs
 Market Knowledge: info, tech, know-how, and skills
that provide insight into a market and its customers
 Technological Knowledge: provides insight into ways
to create new knowledge
o Generation of new entry opportunity
 Info on a new entry
 More knowledge ensures
o Starts from a position of less ignorance
o Less times spent on info search
 Window of Opportunity
 Error of commission: negative outcome from acting on the
perceived opportunity
 Error of omission: negative outcome from not acting on
the new entry opportunity
 The long run performance of a firm is dependent upon the
ability to generate and exploit numerous new entries,
meaning they have to be able to launch other products
o Figure 3.3- Factors that influence the decision to enter the
market now or delay entry
o Blockbuster did a horrible job of adapting to environmental
changes
o Make sure you know which scope list you are reading between
brad and narrow
o Managing Newness
 Liabilities of newness arise from unique conditions:
 Costs in learning new tasks.
 Conflict arising from overlap or gaps in
responsibilities.
 Unestablished informal structures of
communication.
 Assets of Newness

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 Positive implications arising from an organization’s
newness
 Learning advantage
o Porters 5 forces
 Threat of new entrants
 Supplier bargaining power
 Internal competition
 Threats of substitutes
 Customer bargaining power
 Barriers to Entry

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