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Meister, A. D., Mestwerdt, S., Mrożewski, M., Mauer, R., & Seckler, C. (2026). How Do Entrepreneurs Form Social Business Opportunity Beliefs? An Opportunity Actualization Perspective. Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, 1-37. https://doi.org/10.1177/10422587251404873

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Welcome back to Revise and Resubmit 🎙️✨ the place where serious research meets real life, and where journal articles stop being “papers” and start being stories about people trying to do difficult things in a messy world.

Picture an entrepreneur at a café table with a notebook open, not just doing math, but doing moral math. What counts as “value” when the numbers do not capture the need? What counts as an “opportunity” when the market nods yes, but the community hesitates, or when the community aches yes, but the market shrugs. That is the kind of quiet, high-stakes inner conversation this episode walks into. ☕🧠

Today we are talking about a brand-new article published online on 13 January 2026 in Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, a truly prestigious FT50 journal. 🏛️📚 And the title tells you exactly what is at stake: How Do Entrepreneurs Form Social Business Opportunity Beliefs? An Opportunity Actualization Perspective.

The authors, Alexander Dominik Meister, Sönke Mestwerdt, Matthias Mrożewski, René Mauer, and Christoph Seckler, go looking for something most entrepreneurship theories rush past: the moment an impact entrepreneur decides an idea is not just inspiring, but possible. Not just desirable, but doable. ✅💡

Using a qualitative approach that pairs think-aloud protocols with semi-structured interviews, they listen closely to 24 impact entrepreneurs as those entrepreneurs narrate their own thinking in real time. And what emerges is not a single lightning-bolt origin story. It is a process. Social beliefs and business beliefs often form on different tracks, and then get aligned through an iterative balancing act, like tuning two instruments until they can finally play the same song. 🎻⚖️

One of the paper’s sharpest insights is about stakeholders, not as background characters, but as a whole living ecosystem. The breadth and depth of perceived support or constraint across market and non-market stakeholders can decide whether an opportunity feels viable. In other words, impact does not actualize in a vacuum. It actualizes in relationships. 🤝🌍

If you like episodes that respect the nuance of ethics, ambition, and the complicated choreography between purpose and profit, you are in the right place. And if you want more conversations like this, subscribe to “Revise and Resubmit” on Spotify 🎧 and find us on YouTube at “Weekend Researcher” 📺. You can also listen on Amazon Prime and Apple Podcast too. 🍎📱

And now, as we step into the heart of this research, here is the question I cannot stop thinking about: when an entrepreneur says, “This can work,” are they hearing the market, the mission, the stakeholders, or the story they most need to believe right now? ❓

Thanks to the authors, Alexander Dominik Meister, Sönke Mestwerdt, Matthias Mrożewski, René Mauer, and Christoph Seckler, and thank you to SAGE Publications for publishing this important work.