Entrepreneurial Strategic Philosophy: A Cross-decade Conceptual Model Between Entrepreneurial Orientation and Strategic Philosophy

Strategic Entrepreneurial Orientation and Small Business Growth

This chapter aims to define a coherent theoretical framework enabling a broader understanding of the strategic entrepreneurial orientation (SEO) and to evaluate their effects on small firm growth. A sample made up of 211 small Portuguese firms from various different sectors of activity was surveyed by questionnaire. The results demonstrate how the life-cycle of companies, their resources, capac...

Strategic Entrepreneurship: Integrating Entrepreneurial and Strategic Management Perspectives

Strategic philosophy and management level

Purpose – To examine how a manager’s strategic philosophy is influenced by his or her management level in the organization. Design/methodology/approach – Scales are developed to measure managers’ philosophical perspectives along three key dimensions and tested with 289 managers in the United States. Refined scales are administered to 237 managers. Findings – A manager’s level in the organizatio...

Institutional Influences on Strategic Entrepreneurial Behaviors

The purpose of this paper is to examine the existence of cross-level moderating effects between national appropriability conditions, individual level predictors and entrepreneurial growth aspirations. We test a multi-level model that connects the determinants of strategic resource allocation decisions at the individual level with the strength of the intellectual property rights regime at the na...

Strategic Management of Entrepreneurial Firms during Recession

Aalto University, P.O. Box 11000, FI-00076 Aalto www.aalto.fi Author Juhana Peltonen Name of the doctoral dissertation Strategic Management of Entrepreneurial Firms during Recession Publisher School of Science Unit Department of Industrial Engineering and Management Series Aalto University publication series DOCTORAL DISSERTATIONS 194/2014 Field of research Venture Capital and Private Equity, G...