Building Bridges between Entrepreneurship and Strategic Thinking (CROSBI ID 54949)
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Podaci o odgovornosti
Jelenc, Lara ; Pisapia, John
engleski
Building Bridges between Entrepreneurship and Strategic Thinking
In this chapter we present two bridges linking entrepreneurial and strategic thinking. The first bridge links the research of individual entrepreneurial behavior and strategic thinking skills. We found that systems thinking was the strongest predictor of all three elements of individual entrepreneurial behavior (risk- taking, innovativeness, and proactiveness). The more often the entrepreneurs in our sample used systems thinking the higher was their predisposition for risk-taking, innovativeness and proactiveness. Furthermore, all subscales of strategic thinking (systems thinking, reframing, and reflecting), significantly influenced proactiveness. These links enable entrepreneurs to decide how to respond, act, and/or exploit possibilities. The links we found between strategic thinking skills and entrepreneurial behavior were strong enough to recommend that strategic thinking skills should be learned, trained and practiced by entrepreneurs, leaders, and managers at all levels of the organization. The second bridge positions strategic thinking, as a link between the effectual and causal reasoning continuum. The strategic thinking research suggests that strategic thinkers employ cognitive ambidexterity. It suggests that strategic thinkers use strategic reasoning skills in analytical, critical, synthetic, integrative, adaptive, and creative, and innovative thinking to switch back and forth between causal and effectual reasoning and thus are able to gather as much information about situations as possible before acting. We concluded that by linking entrepreneurship and strategic thinking we gain a clearer understanding of the gap between entrepreneurial thinking and action, as well as strengthening the ability to see and recognize opportunities. The chapter concludes with five propositions to further develop the links between entrepreneurship and strategic thinking.
enterpreneurship, strategic thinking, effectual thinking
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Podaci o prilogu
75-94.
objavljeno
10.1007/978-3-319-18185-1_6
Podaci o knjizi
Neostrategic Management – An International Perspective on Trends and Challenges
Vrdoljak Raguž, Ivona, Podrug, Najla, Jelenc, Lara
Heidelberg: Springer
2016.
978-3-319-18184-4
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