CÍMLAP
Hortoványi Lilla
Entrepreneurial management
CONTENT, BLURB
Content
The choice of topic, justification of the central research question, and contribution to theory
1. The evolution of entrepreneurship theory
1.1. The roots of entrepreneurship in economic theory
1.1.1. Entrepreneurship, as arbitrage
1.1.2. Entrepreneurship, as creative destruction
1.1.3. Entrepreneurship, as value creation
1.2. Entrepreneurship, as an independent field
1.2.1. Entrepreneurial traits
1.2.2. Entrepreneurship and regional development
1.2.3. Women entrepreneurs
1.2.4. Entrepreneurial process
1.2.5. The social nature of entrepreneurship
1.3. Milestones in theory development
2. Conceptual and empirical challenges of the phenomenon
2.1. Research focuses according to variables investigated
2.1.1. Outcome
2.1.2. Process
2.1.3. Context
2.2. Research focuses according to level of analysis
2.2.1. The individual level
2.2.2. Start-ups and promising small firms
2.2.3. Firm-level behavior
2.2.4. Aggregate level
2.3. Summary
3. Review of entrepreneurial management research
3.1. Definition of entrepreneurial management
3.2. Advancements in empirical research
3.3. Hypotheses development on entrepreneurial management practices
3.3.1. Entrepreneurial management and commitment
3.3.2. Entrepreneurial management and resource gaps
3.3.3. Entrepreneurial management and social capital
3.4. Summary of hypotheses
4. Empirical study of entrepreneurial management
4.1. The entrepreneurial management measured along a continuum
4.2. Measures of entrepreneurial orientation
4.2.1. Autonomy
4.2.2. Innovativeness
4.2.3. Proactiveness
4.2.4. Risk-management
4.2.5. Growth Orientation
4.2.6. Independence of the five dimensions
4.3. Data collection
4.3.1. Online survey
4.3.2. Testing the data
4.3.3. The sample characteristics
5. Findings
6. Discussion, scholarly and managerial implications
7. References
8. Appendix
8.1. The questionnaire of entrepreneurial orientation
8.2. Growth orientation
8.3. Commitment
8.4. Social capital
8.5. Resource gaps
8.6. Dimensions
8.7. Hypotheses testing
Blurb
Managers are constantly advised to behave like entrepreneurs, be
opportunity driven, and experiment with products, services, processes, and
business models. This pressure got more intense as the economy has become
more competitive, more entrepreneurial, more demanding. Entrepreneurial
Management seeks to uncover the processes of entrepreneurial activity
from the cross-section of "individual" and "process" studies. It seeks to
understand the ways in which entrepreneurial managers both respond to and
shape the context in which they operate. Finally, it seeks to provide
answer to the question of what professional managers can adopt from
entrepreneurial behavior?
Focusing closely on the practice of entrepreneurial management, the book
revises Timmons's model in order to capture the antecedents and consequences
of the entrepreneurial activity. Due to the novel research methodology applied,
latent strategies are identified which allow a clearer differentiation
between, for example, pure risk taking and entrepreneurship. Based on its
useful insight, Entrepreneurial Management is recommended not only to
managers, but to policy-makers and researchers as well.