Cherisse Hoyte

MSc (with merit) International Employment Relations and Human Resource Management (London School of Economics, UK). BSc (first class honours) Management Studies Major Psychology Minor (University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad & Tobago)


Room: B22 SB
Tel: +44 (0) 115 8467750
Email: lixch@exmail.nottingham.ac.uk

Current Status: Registered
Year of Registration: 2011
Expected Completion Date: /09/2014

Primary Funding Source:
Government of Trinidad & Tobago Postgraduate Scholarship

Research Topic:
A Theory of Opportunity Emergence: How can I discover an opportunity until I see what we have created?

Research Details:
"Opportunity" is a key concept within the entrepreneurship literature in so much as it is seen as defining the boundary and exchange conditions of the entrepreneurship field. Yet, how much do we really know about opportunities? Extant literature on opportunities and entrepreneurship has focused on two themes: The first - on identifying idiosyncratic attributes of entrepreneurs (trait approach) and the second - on identifying and explaining why some people and not others identify opportunities. Recently, the debate on whether opportunities are discovered or created has resurfaced. Yet, we are no closer to understanding "opportunities" and how they come to exist. This research aims to address this gap on opportunity emergence by coalescing the discovery and creation perspectives and by reconstructing how opportunities are identified through a combination of qualitative methods (interviews, documentation analysis and cognitive mapping) in the context of nascent entrepreneurs.

Research Supervisor/s: Simon Mosey and Hannah Noke

Division: Management