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Entrepreneurial Orientation and Strategic Leadership

A Behavioral Approach

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Authors:
  1. Brian S. Anderson

    1. Henry W. Bloch School of Management, University of Missouri–Kansas City, Kansas City, USA

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  • Explores leadership and governance issues related to building and leading entrepreneurial firms through the lens of EO
  • Proposes a novel research model and theoretical frame for integrating EO and strategic leadership
  • Provides actionable guidance for scholars on measurement and research design

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-v
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  2. The EO Challenge

    • Brian S. Anderson
    Pages 1-15

  3. A Behavioral View of EO and Strategic Leadership

    • Brian S. Anderson
    Pages 17-27

  4. Sustaining EO and the Role of the CEO

    • Brian S. Anderson
    Pages 29-38

  5. Setting Expectations: Governance and Board Considerations

    • Brian S. Anderson
    Pages 39-50

  6. Extending EO and the Role of the Top Management Team

    • Brian S. Anderson
    Pages 51-59

  7. Leadership Considerations for EO in a Multi-Business Firm

    • Brian S. Anderson
    Pages 61-69

  8. Contextual and Industry Considerations in Strategic Leadership-EO Research

    • Brian S. Anderson
    Pages 71-81

  9. Future Research Opportunities in the Strategic Leadership-EO Space

    • Brian S. Anderson
    Pages 83-97

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 99-101
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About this book

This book sits at the intersection of two lines of inquiry of critical importance to management researchers—what are the contributory factors to building an entrepreneurial company, and what is senior leadership’s role in this process? Inherently cross-disciplinary, it adopts a behavioral perspective and proposes a research model delineating how various strategic leadership variables influence a firm’s exhibition of entrepreneurial behaviors, captured by the entrepreneurial orientation (EO) construct.

While EO research touches briefly on the role of the CEO senior leadership consideration, the field lacks an integrated perspective on how senior leadership decisions enable or constrain EO. To address this gap, the author proposes resource allocation decisions as the central mechanism through which a set of strategic leadership variables causally influence EO. He argues for the superiority of a behavioral view of EO and of strategic leadership, which stands in contrast to the attitudinal perspective on EO and the ex officio perspective on strategic leadership.


Opening a rich new stream of inquiry on leadership antecedents to EO, this work will appeal to both entrepreneurship and leadership researchers, unpacking both research gaps and research questions concerning the role of the CEO and top management team, corporate boards, and emerging leadership challenges.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Henry W. Bloch School of Management, University of Missouri–Kansas City, Kansas City, USA

    Brian S. Anderson

About the author

Brian S. Anderson is professor at University of Missouri–Kansas City, US. His research centers on strategic entrepreneurship, focusing on causal inference, measurement issues, and Bayesian treatment of the entrepreneurial orientation and strategic entrepreneurial behavior constructs. His research appears in the leading entrepreneurship and management journals, and he serves as an Associate Editor for strategic entrepreneurship for the Journal of Business Venturing, and on the editorial board of Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice. He teaches in the areas of analytics, data science, and strategy.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Entrepreneurial Orientation and Strategic Leadership

  • Book Subtitle: A Behavioral Approach

  • Authors: Brian S. Anderson

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-87300-4

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Business and Management, Business and Management (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Author(s) 2021

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-87299-1Published: 24 October 2021

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-87300-4Published: 23 October 2021

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: V, 101

  • Topics: Entrepreneurship, Business Strategy/Leadership, Management

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