Entrepreneurial value creation: conceptualizing an exchange-based view of entrepreneurship
Open Access
- 22 September 2021
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Emerald in Journal of Small Business and Enterprise Development
- Vol. 29 (2), 261-278
- https://doi.org/10.1108/jsbed-04-2021-0155
Abstract
This paper proposes an Exchange-Based View of the value creation process. The Borrowing from marketing literature, the EBV advances that entrepreneurs and stakeholders are tied by exchange relationships, through which they co-create value by reciprocally making and realizing promises of value. Propositions are developed and offered to advance the role of exchange in the entrepreneurial value creation process. The authors conceptualize the enterprise as a system of exchange relationships between entrepreneurs and their stakeholders, thus proposing an exchange-based view of entrepreneurship. Such an account of the role of entrepreneurs and of their relationship with the stakeholders has meaningful implications for our understanding of the entrepreneurial tasks of opportunity recognition and exploitation.Keywords
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