| Abstrakt: |
There is growing scholarly attention towards understanding the role of environmental factors on entrepreneurial action, decision-making, and outcomes. The external enabler (EE) framework provides a unified and comprehensive understanding of how different types of macro- environmental changes, ranging from technological, natural-environmental to socio-demographic changes, impact the substance, rate, and quantity of entrepreneurship. Scholarly interest in applying the EE framework to uncover the presence of heterogeneity in entrepreneurial action based on spatial, sectoral, temporal, and demographic dimensions is emerging. By focusing on opacity, which is a core construct of the EE framework, and using a Knowledge Problem approach to underscore temporal dimension of EEs, this study develops a time-calibrated understanding of opacity related to the external enablement of entrepreneurial action. Given the focus on the evolving nature of an EE, we conduct our empirical investigation in the gradually advancing Artificial Intelligence industry by drawing data from Crunchbase. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
