Introductory paragraph: One of Egon Brunswik’s main tenets was that psychology should pay as much attention to the properties of the organism's environment as it does to the organism itself. This is the spirit in which the External Enabler (EE) concept and framework were created. They were coined and developed within entrepreneurship studies as an alternative to the unproductive notion of “objective opportunity” (Davidsson, 2015) and more broadly to address the neglect of environmental changes as a causal force in business scholarship of recent decades (Davidsson, 2020). The EE framework (Davidsson et al., 2020a) aims to supplement the many agent-focused theories on individual-, group- and organizational levels that are used in these fields with conceptualizations that capture important variance in the external reality these agents encounter.