Entrepreneurial leadership : an exploratory study of attitudinal and behavioural patterns over the business lifecycle
Kesidou, Eleni and Carter, Sara (2018) Entrepreneurial leadership : an exploratory study of attitudinal and behavioural patterns over the business lifecycle. International Review of Entrepreneurship, 16 (1). pp. 63-88. 1573. ISSN 2009-2822
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Abstract
Strategic approaches to venture creation and development highlight the importance of entrepreneurial leadership to business success, yet remarkably little is known about what entrepreneurial leaders actually do and why they do it. This study addresses these key questions through detailed analysis of six case companies, each with multiple informants reflecting on critical incidents experienced over the business life-cycle. Contextual depth is achieved by going beyond cross-sectional investigation taking a chronological lens to the temporal dimensions of behaviors characterizing entrepreneurial leadership. This approach produced novel insights into the evolving nature of entrepreneurial leadership showing that entrepreneurial leaders transit from influencing to enabling behaviors as they move from the pre-organizational to the organizational phase of the business life-cycle. The findings contribute towards the conceptual elucidation of entrepreneurial leadership as a leadership style and help unpack the choice of entrepreneurial leadership as a strategic approach to entrepreneurship.
ORCID iDs
Kesidou, Eleni ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4734-4161 and Carter, Sara ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5812-4354;-
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Item type: Article ID code: 63325 Dates: DateEvent30 March 2018Published9 February 2018AcceptedSubjects: Social Sciences > Industries. Land use. Labor > Management. Industrial Management Department: Strathclyde Business School > Hunter Centre for Entrepreneurship, Strategy and Innovation Depositing user: Pure Administrator Date deposited: 19 Feb 2018 11:34 Last modified: 02 Dec 2024 01:19 Related URLs: URI: https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/63325