“Entrepreneurial management” as a strategic choice in firm behavior : linking it with performance


Autoria(s): Kuhn, Brite; Sassmannshausen, Sean; Zolin, Roxanne
Contribuinte(s)

Groen, A.

Oakey, R.

van der Sijde, P.

Data(s)

2010

Resumo

Establishing the core principals of “entrepreneurial management” within an organization describes a certain strategic choice that affects a company in six dimensions, according to Stevenson (1983). Our aim is to empirically measure entrepreneurial management (it’s existence and degree) and to link this measured strategic choice (for or against) entrepreneurial management with firm performance. Our argument here is that companies that follow core principals of entrepreneurial management should outperform other more administrative firms in certain measures of strategic performance. This paper builds on an empirical investigation published by Brown, Davidson & Wiklund (2001), who have developed and tested a reliable measurement instrument for Stevenson’s definition of “entrepreneurial management” (Stevenson 1983, Stevenson & Jarillo 1990). In the first part of our paper we aim to replicate and to some extent improve this study. In the second part we link the measured degree of “entrepreneurial management” with firm performance. To our knowledge, even so Stevenson’s definition of entrepreneurial management is commonly acknowledged and Brown et al. (2001) developed a reliable instrument to empirically capture this behavioral approach to management, the construct of entrepreneurial management never before has been linked to firm performance in an empirical study. Since most papers on corporate entrepreneurship and firm performance are based on Covin & Slevin’s (1991) or Miller’s (1983) concept of entrepreneurial orientation, we contribute to the literature on corporate entrepreneurship in a novel way, given the fact that the entrepreneurial management dimensions measured in our study can theoretically and empirically be clearly distinguished from the construct of entrepreneurial orientation as defined by Covin & Selvin (1991).

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application/pdf

Identificador

http://eprints.qut.edu.au/38819/

Relação

http://eprints.qut.edu.au/38819/1/sassmannshausen_HTSF_Conference.pdf

http://www.utwente.nl/mb/nikos/events/htsf/2010/htsfpapers/sassmannshausen.pdf

Kuhn, Brite, Sassmannshausen, Sean, & Zolin, Roxanne (2010) “Entrepreneurial management” as a strategic choice in firm behavior : linking it with performance. In Groen, A., Oakey, R., & van der Sijde, P. (Eds.) Proceedings of the High Technology Small Firms Conference (HTSF) 2010, University of Twente, The Netherlands.

Direitos

Copyright 2010 HTSF.

Fonte

QUT Business School; School of Management

Palavras-Chave #150304 Entrepreneurship #Entrepreneurial management #Firm Behavior #Performance
Tipo

Conference Paper