Preface to the special issue on international opportunities

Excerpt

There is a broad consensus that opportunities are at the core of entrepreneurship and evolving into a complex and rich topic, encompassing different perspectives viewed from different lenses and assumptions, if not theories, over time. This special issue signifies the increasing importance of opportunities to, and characterizes the complexity of, the topic in international entrepreneurship. It is dedicated to exploring the issues of international opportunities in some depth, and it includes eight double-blind peer-reviewed articles. The objective of this brief preface is threefold: expressing the journal gratitude to the team of guest editors, Professors Tuija Mainela, Per Servais, and Vesa Puhakka, for their dedication to developing the topic for more than a year and their diligent efforts in shaping the issue; thanking the authors and reviewers for undertaking the arduous, but rewarding, process of double-blind reviews and revisions; and, finally, providing a brief perspective on international opportunities in relation to basic conceptions of opportunity. The balance of this preface discusses the last objective. …