Entrepreneurship Notes CH 3
Entrepreneurship Notes CH 3
Entrepreneurship Notes CH 3
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