Abstract:

Entrepreneurial opportunities which are discovered and used by entrepreneurs, is one of the most important driving factors of the firm growth. Because firm growth emerging as a result of the discovery of the entrepreneurial opportunities. Therefore increasing the opportunities means increasing firm growth performance. However, the quality of the used opportunities diversifies firm growth performance. In this context, it is quite important to know how an entrepreneurial opportunity is understood and where does it come from. In this framework, the main purpose of the study is to demonstrate the entrepreneurial opportunity types and examine the impact of the entrepreneurial opportunity types on firm growth performance which are used in the manufacturing industry sector in Antalya, Burdur and Isparta provinces of the TR61 region. In this study, 633 firms that operating under the manufacturing sector in TR61 Region were examined. 315 of these firms are in Antalya, 134 of these firms are in Burdur and 184 of these firms are in Isparta. In this study, the growth performance of firm are discussed as the increase of firms' sales volume, cash flow, profit margin, employment level, investments and the recognition. Logit and odds ratio analysis were carried out to measure the effect on each dimension that defines the firm growth performance of entrepreneurial

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