“…innovative posture, proactiveness, and risk-taking behaviour (Kreiser and Davis, 2012;Rauch et al, 2009). There are a number of explicit connection and opportunities for OM and EO (Kickul et al, 2011;Krishnan, 2013;Phan and Chambers, 2013). Entrepreneurial behaviour is acutely important in that it allows firms to leverage their manufacturing competencies and develop capabilities such as flexibility, agility, quality and efficiency (Handfield et al, 2009;Hsu et al, 2011).…”