关键词: “能力—机会”框架, 创业, 企业成长, 交易范式, 生产范式, 后发展

Abstract: Based on the tradition of exchange paradigm, mainstream economics emphasizes too much on incentive and contract, leading to its failure to provide effective theoretical support for understanding firm’s entrepreneurship and growth in the real worldThis paper reconstructs an unified theoretical capabilityopportunity framework, which is rooted in the production paradigm, mainly based on resource/capability theory and evolutionary perspective, and can be especially applied to understand entrepreneurship and growth phenomena in late development contextThis framework contains four basic propositions: (1) in terms of the entrepreneurship and firm growth, we essentially discuss the issues of organizational capability and market opportunity(2) The sources and types of capability and opportunity, as well as their systematic change process, directly determine the entrepreneurial choice and growth power of the firm(3)Capability and opportunity are both industryspecific and productspecific, and can only be generated during the continuous process of industrial production and managementOnly when certain types of capability and opportunity have been or can be created, can entrepreneurship and growth activities in the corresponding industry appear(4) The organizational capability and market opportunity in late development context will not be generated automatically just because of the existence of market economy systemNonmarket organizations, such as government and public research organization, act as key forces to shape capability and opportunity conditionsIn conclusion, the capabilityopportunity framework provides an new research perspective which is significantly different from mainstream economics, and especially helps to bridge the longstanding gap between entrepreneurship and growth research

Key words: capabilityopportunity framework, entrepreneurship, firm growth, exchange paradigm, production paradigm, late development