Representing and explaining the knowledge map of the Resource-Based View from the perspective of entrepreneurial opportunities

From the perspective of strategic entrepreneurship, two areas of Resource-Based View and entrepreneurial opportunities are intertwined in an entrepreneurial business and cannot be imagined separately. The field of opportunity as the "main core of entrepreneurship" has been the subject of various research that has mainly focused on the factors affecting the entrepreneurial process, but methodological and applied researches on the subject of how to provide resources in exploiting entrepreneurial opportunities are very few. The review of the Resource-Based View field shows that entrepreneurial opportunities have not been scrutinized and explored seriously in many studies in this domain. The current research was done with the aim of creating a general and quick view of the content and research streams of the Resource-Based View from the perspective of entrepreneurial opportunities to researchers and helping them in the optimal direction of future research. The review of the research shows that there is no regular and reliable knowledge in the field of Resource-Based View from the point of view of entrepreneurial opportunities and there is no clear and comprehensive picture to understand the depth of the research done in this field. Therefore, the main problem of this research is "representation and compilation of the knowledge map is Resource-Based View from the perspective of entrepreneurial opportunities. The innovation and scientific contribution of this research is the presentation and compilation of the knowledge map from the Resource-Based View from the point of view of entrepreneurial opportunities in addition to determining the existing knowledge and showing the relationship of different sectors with each other in this field, the path of future research is also identified based on the knowledge gap, specify for enthusiastic and interested researchers. As mentioned, the knowledge map is developed with two scientific goals: first, the knowledge map order to more accurately understand what has been done so far in a specific subject area, and second, the knowledge map in order to determine the direction of future research. It is hoped that the present research will be successful in achieving both goals.

This research is applied in terms of purpose and based on the collection of documentary information - systematic review. In this research, using a systematic review, among 452 articles reviewed between 1984 and 2022 in reliable foreign databases, after three stages of screening, 46 articles were found suitable for conducting research.

Research data were analyzed based on thematic analysis method, in two stages of open coding to find descriptive propositions and axial coding to extract conceptual propositions, and finally 49 effective components were identified for drawing the knowledge map of the research. The four pillars presented in the representation of the knowledge map in this research are: Heterogeneity of resources, Ex post limits to competition, Imperfect resource mobility, and Ex ante limits to competition.

In addition to drawing a knowledge map and explaining its components, knowledge gaps and future research streams that can be developed regarding the Resource-Based View from the perspective of entrepreneurial opportunities were determined.