Ramoglou, StratosTsang, Eric W. K.2018-09-242018-09-242017-03-132017-03-130363-7425http://hdl.handle.net/10735.1/6136Full text access from Treasures at UT Dallas is available only to current UTD affiliates.Whether entrepreneurial opportunities are discovered or created is a long-standing dilemma in the study of entrepreneurship. In our recent article (Ramoglou & Tsang, 2016) we framed this dilemma as false. Opportunities are neither discovered nor created. They are objectively existing propensities to be creatively actualized.en©2017 Academy of Management ReviewOpportunityRealismPerspectiveLearning by discoveryCreationKnowledge, Theory ofarticleRamoglou, Stratos, and Eric W. K. Tsang. 2017. "In defense of common sense in entrepreneurship theory: Beyond philosophical extremities and linguistic abuses." Academy of Management Review 42(4), doi:10.5465/amr.2017.0169424