Abstract
While 30 years of entrepreneurial orientation (EO) research has demonstrated that EO provides critical insights into questions of organizational-level strategy and performance, how EO manifests inside organizations has received little attention. Instead of assuming that EO is homogenous, we examine the questions of how and why EO might pervade organizations heterogeneously along three dimensions: vertically across hierarchy levels, horizontally across business units, and temporally as an organization develops. We then present three models for how EO can dynamically pervade organizations and discuss how examining the pervasiveness of EO can further our understanding of entrepreneurship as an organizational phenomenon.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 895-923 |
Number of pages | 29 |
Journal | Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice |
Volume | 35 |
Issue number | 5 |
Early online date | 23 May 2011 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - Sep 2011 |
Keywords
- entrepreneurship
- entrepreneurial orientation
- entrepreneurial performance