ORGANIZATIONAL ENTREPRENEURIAL ALERTNESS FRAMEWORK IN OPPORTUNITY DISCOVERY

Entrepreneurship and business development are very important for policy makers, executives and entrepreneurs to develop economies. Entrepreneurial alertness in opportunity recognition and discovery of opportunities can help to recognize why some of people and companies discover opportunities and others not. The purpose of this article is to change the level of entrepreneurial alertness from individual to group and from the group to the organizational level. A literature review, interview, meth-synthesis and focal group are used for final research modelling. The way of theorizing for changing levels of entrepreneurial alertness is multi-level method. We used organizational learning process for final conceptual framework. A new framework for Organizational Entrepreneurial Alertness in opportunity discovery of individual, group and organizational levels was developed. By using the final framework, entrepreneurs and organizations will be able to discover new opportunities and teachers will be able to educate organizational entrepreneurial alertness process and opportunity discovery process in individual, group and organizational levels. The researcher will be able to use this framework for extending opportunity discovery and entrepreneurial alertness theories in individual, group and organizational levels and also they can extend this framework to international entrepreneurship.