Stakeholder-Driven Actualization: A Mechanism-Based Model of Entrepreneurial Emergence in Rural India

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This study develops a stakeholder-sensitive, mechanism-based model of opportunity actualization in constrained entrepreneurial ecosystems. Based on a Critical Realist multi-case analysis of six agri-tech startups in rural India, we show how opportunities are not simply discovered or created from scratch but actualized through recursive stakeholder alignment, moral legitimacy, and institutional support. Extending Actualization Theory and Strategic Opportunity Thinking, we identify five interdependent mechanisms: stakeholder trust, crisis responsiveness, institutional support, moral capital, and iterative co-design. These mechanisms interact to transform latent potentials into viable ventures, offering a relational and ethically grounded understanding of opportunity emergence in informal and under-institutionalized settings.

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