As far back as 2005, Sir Nigel Crisp (Chief Executive of the NHS) argued for “entrepreneurial leaders” capable of bringing “vision, leadership and passion” to the NHS, and who “generate new and alternative solutions that extend the boundaries of healthcare (and) challenge factors that are growth-limiting and refuse to accept the status quo”i. Harnessing the language of entrepreneurship was a cl...

Bounded rationality prevents humans from tracing all action plans that could, in principle, be imagined. In the present paper, individuals' partly socially-shaped cognitive frames explain which action plans do gain attention. This provides the basis for a new entrepreneurial theory of the firm where `business conceptions,' which underlie any entrepreneurial venture, play a key role. Coordinatio...

entrepreneurs in many small firms could not be experts in only one specific functional area but are required to operate across the range of management competencies; the applicability of competence-based mtd (management training and development) to the broader roles of entrepreneurs in small businesses is likely to be greater than to the roles of many entrepreneurs in large organizations. compet...

Drawing on the literature examining nexus between gender, entrepreneurial leadership and performance, this article critically explores a framework for analysing role of gender in shaping performance tourism firms non-western context. Utilising poststructural feminist lens that challenges normative accounts practices, qualitative analysis interview data from entrepreneurs Ghana Nigeria provides ...

At College & Research Libraries we do not get many articles on the topic of academic library leadership. I wonder why, because I think this is one of the most important and enduring topics in our profession. Maybe it is because this is a big and difficult topic to pin down. What exactly is leadership? What aspects of leadership are we talking about: defining leadership, evaluating leadership st...

Published by the IEEE Computer Society 0018-9162/11/$26.00 © 2011 IEEE preparation is not typically part of most undergraduate programs, especially at engineering institutions. Cultivating entrepreneurial thinking requires going beyond teaching business fundamentals and reviewing case studies; it requires learning through practice.2 To support active student engagement in entrepreneurial activi...