TITLE:
The Art of Capturing Opportunities —Screening Arab Social Entrepreneurs
AUTHORS:
Mohamed Buheji
KEYWORDS:
Capturing Opportunities, Social Entrepreneurship, Arab World, Discovering Opportunities, Exploiting Opportunities, Abundance Thinking, Psychology of Entrepreneurs
JOURNAL NAME:
American Journal of Industrial and Business Management,
Vol.8 No.4,
April
10,
2018
ABSTRACT: This paper investigates how opportunities are
captured by those that bring in unique contributions to their communities. More
than fifty Arab initiatives were studied to see how they started by social
change entrepreneurs through capturing opportunities that came due to community needs,
gaps, challenges, crisis. The study shows that even hidden opportunities can be
exploited through utilising the alertness psychology of the entrepreneurs along
with problem solving techniques and optimising their social capital that each opportunity brings. The originality of this work is
that it shows that capturing opportunities can occur when people are more
driven by values, or vision, or self-purposefulness. It is very important to
all Social Change Agents and especially in developing countries/regions as the
Arab World. The limitation to data screened in this study
doesn’t undermine the possibility for generalising it further in different
areas in the world as it carries a great development potential for our socio-economies
and even to the world abundance thinking.