Entrepreneurial orientation within small firms: a critical review of why leadership and contextual factors matter

Muchiri, Michael; McMurray, Adela

doi:10.1080/13215906.2015.1017076

Cited by 55 publications

(56 citation statements)

References 70 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Unclassified

Order By: Relevance

“…Stakeholder relationships improved as organizations demonstrate and encourage corporate social responsibility (Du et al, 2013). Transformational leadership also played a significant role in improving organizational performance (Muchiri & McMurray, 2015). Another way in which transformational leadership leads to high achievement is through values.…”

Section: Summary Of Research Results Using Transformational Leadershimentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Another study within the business/marketplace context showcasing the value of transformational leadership was conducted by Muchiri and McMurray (2015). They performed research in order to evaluate the relationship among transformational leadership, entrepreneurial orientation, and organizational performance.…”

Section: Summary Of Research Results Using Transformational Leadershimentioning

confidence: 99%

See 1 more Smart Citation

An Examination of Leadership Theories in Business and Sport Achievement Contexts

Kovach¹

2018

JVBL

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Section: Summary Of Research Results Using Transformational Leadershimentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Summary Of Research Results Using Transformational Leadershimentioning

confidence: 99%

An Examination of Leadership Theories in Business and Sport Achievement Contexts

Kovach¹

2018

JVBL

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

“…In addition, entrepreneurial leadership can also be explained as a structuring force allowing firms to integrate strategy both with internal factors (related with organization), and external ones (environment), generating the necessary conditions to deal better with improving method, changes in market conditions, appearance of new technologies, development of new products and services and transformational changes needed in order to mutate and adapt the firm to the new local and international context (Chandra et al, 2009;Morcillo Ortega, 2007;Muchiri & McMurray, 2015;Tidd & Bessant, 2009). …”

Section: Entrepreneurial Leadership In Knowledge Intensive Smesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…We also found a link between entrepreneurship and leadership in innovativeness and opportunity exploitation (Jones & Crompton, 2009). The entrepreneurial and managerial dimension evaluates leadership on the basis of different factors as: pro-activeness, innovativeness and risk taken (Muchiri & McMurray, 2015;Schumpeter, 1934;Van Zyl &Mathur-Helm, 2007 andZaridis &Mousiolis, 2014), and managerial in the sense of wealth creation, decision making, and social skills -collaboration, communication and relationship building (Grant, 2013 andOlejnik &Swoboda, 2012).…”

Section: Entrepreneurial Leadership In Knowledge Intensive Smesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The entrepreneurial and managerial dimension evaluates leadership on the basis of the following characteristics: pro-activeness, innovativeness and risk taken (Muchiri & McMurray, 2015;van Zyl & Mathur-Helm, 2007;Zaridis & Mousiolis, 2014) and managerial in the sense of wealth creation, decision making, social skills, collaboration, communication and relationship building (Grant, 2013;Olejnik & Swoboda, 2012). The entrepreneurial, innovative and managerial dimension (Schumpeter, 1934;Tidd & Bessant, 2009) is obtained integrating the following variables: cross border sales and export intensity as indicators of export orientation of a firm (Hessels, Gelderen, & Thurik, 2008).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

See 1 more Smart Citation

Entrepreneurial Leadership as a Determining Factor in the Internationalisation of Technology Driven Knowledge Intensive Services within Spanish SMEs

Moller

Morcillo

Fernández-Crehuet

2018

AEF

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

The aim of this research project is to generate a general framework to evaluate entrepreneurial leadership as a driving influence in the internationalisation process of a Knowledge Intensive SME and to understand behavioural patterns of entrepreneurial leadership which might influence its internationalization.The study uses a sample of 892 small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in the technology based knowledge intensive sectors from the Spanish Technological and Innovation Panel (PITEC) to analyse the impact of three dimension of entrepreneurial leadership -entrepreneurial and managerial elements; absorptive capacity and networks elements and strategic and innovative elements-upon exports as one of those preferred vehicles for SME internationalisation. The research uses linear and logistic regressions to examine the links of the different components of entrepreneurial leadership and shows the extent of a positive relationship between the proposed constructs of entrepreneurial leadership with the internationalisation of knowledge intensive SME in Spain.An additional value of the research is to provide a better understanding of the future of new enabling technologies for SMEs and their possible impact in any international endeavour where entrepreneurial leadership plays a critical function.

show abstract

Corporate entrepreneurial leadership, resources, capabilities, and sustainable performance

Chaudhuri,

Chatterjee,

Kamble

et al. 2023

Bus Strat Env

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Corporate entrepreneurial leadership (CEL) plays a critical role in promoting innovative behavior that disrupts existing practices in organizations, to say the least, encouraging new policy initiatives that could affect the business and social performance of the organizations under their sustainable development goals (SDGs). CEL can help achieve SDGs by redesigning different contextual factors to help promote various policy initiatives. In this vein, this study identifies the factors which could improve the business and social performance of the organizations helping to achieve SDGs through an amalgam of theoretical lenses, particularly the dynamic capability view. Based on extant literature, we developed, validated, and applied a theoretical model using the partial least square structural equation modeling technique on data collected from 327 respondents from different organizations. The study found that CEL capability significantly and positively impacts the various organizational entities and resources, which in turn affects the business and social performance of the organizations. Theoretical and managerial implications of the findings are also discussed.

show abstract

Entrepreneurial orientation within small firms: a critical review of why leadership and contextual factors matter

Cited by 55 publications

References 70 publications

An Examination of Leadership Theories in Business and Sport Achievement Contexts

An Examination of Leadership Theories in Business and Sport Achievement Contexts

Entrepreneurial Leadership as a Determining Factor in the Internationalisation of Technology Driven Knowledge Intensive Services within Spanish SMEs

Corporate entrepreneurial leadership, resources, capabilities, and sustainable performance

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About