This book sits at the intersection of two lines of inquiry of critical importance to management researchers—what are the contributory factors to building an entrepreneurial company, and what is senior leadership’s role in this process? Inherently cross-disciplinary, it adopts a behavioral perspective and proposes a research model delineating how various strategic leadership variables influence a firm’s exhibition of entrepreneurial behaviors, captured by the entrepreneurial orientation (EO) construct.While EO research touches briefly on the role of the CEO senior leadership consideration, the field lacks an integrated perspective on how senior leadership decisions enable or constrain EO. To address this gap, the author proposes resource allocation decisions as the central mechanism through which a set of strategic leadership variables causally influence EO. He argues for the superiority of a behavioral view of EO and of strategic leadership, which stands in contrast to the attitudinal perspective on EO and the ex officio perspective on strategic leadership.Opening a rich new stream of inquiry on leadership antecedents to EO, this work will appeal to both entrepreneurship and leadership researchers, unpacking both research gaps and research questions concerning the role of the CEO and top management team, corporate boards, and emerging leadership challenges.
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Chapter 1. The EO Challenge.- Chapter 2. A Behavioral View of EO and Strategic Leadership.- Chapter 3. Sustaining EO and the Role of the CEO.- Chapter 4. Setting Expectations – Governance and Board Considerations.- Chapter 5. Extending EO and the Role of the Top Management Team.- Chapter 6. Leadership Considerations for EO in a Multi-Business Firm.- Chapter 7. Contextual and Industry Considerations in Strategic Leadership-EO Research.- Chapter 8. Future Research Opportunities in the Strategic Leadership-EO Space.
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This book sits at the intersection of two lines of inquiry of critical importance to management researchers—what are the contributory factors to building an entrepreneurial company, and what is senior leadership’s role in this process? Inherently cross-disciplinary, it adopts a behavioral perspective and proposes a research model delineating how various strategic leadership variables influence a firm’s exhibition of entrepreneurial behaviors, captured by the entrepreneurial orientation (EO) construct.While EO research touches briefly on the role of the CEO senior leadership consideration, the field lacks an integrated perspective on how senior leadership decisions enable or constrain EO. To address this gap, the author proposes resource allocation decisions as the central mechanism through which a set of strategic leadership variables causally influence EO. He argues for the superiority of a behavioral view of EO and of strategic leadership, which standsin contrast to the attitudinal perspective on EO and the ex officio perspective on strategic leadership.Opening a rich new stream of inquiry on leadership antecedents to EO, this work will appeal to both entrepreneurship and leadership researchers, unpacking both research gaps and research questions concerning the role of the CEO and top management team, corporate boards, and emerging leadership challenges.Brian S. Anderson is professor at University of Missouri–Kansas City, US. His research centers on strategic entrepreneurship, focusing on causal inference, measurement issues, and Bayesian treatment of the entrepreneurial orientation and strategic entrepreneurial behavior constructs. His research appears in leading entrepreneurship and management journals, and he serves as an associate editor for strategic entrepreneurship for the Journal of Business Venturing and on the editorial board of Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice. He teaches in the areas of analytics, data science, and strategy.
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Explores leadership and governance issues related to building and leading entrepreneurial firms through the lens of EO Proposes a novel research model and theoretical frame for integrating EO and strategic leadership Provides actionable guidance for scholars on measurement and research design
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9783030872991
Publisert
2021-10-24
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG
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210 mm
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148 mm
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Research, P, 06
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Engelsk
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Brian S. Anderson is professor at University of Missouri–Kansas City, US. His research centers on strategic entrepreneurship, focusing on causal inference, measurement issues, and Bayesian treatment of the entrepreneurial orientation and strategic entrepreneurial behavior constructs. His research appears in the leading entrepreneurship and management journals, and he serves as an Associate Editor for strategic entrepreneurship for the Journal of Business Venturing, and on the editorial board of Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice. He teaches in the areas of analytics, data science, and strategy.