Topic 2: Entrepreneurial Management
Topic 2: Entrepreneurial Management
Topic 2: Entrepreneurial Management
Entrepreneurial Management
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Learning Objectives
• Managerial Vs Entrepreneurial Decision Making
• Strategic Orientation & Commitment to Opportunity
• Commitment & Control of Resources
• Management Structure & Reward Philosophy
• Growth Orientation & Entrepreneurial Culture
• Learning from Failure
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Managerial Vs Entrepreneurial
Decision Making
Table 2.1- Distinguishing Entrepreneurially from Traditionally
Managed Firm
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Managerial Versus Entrepreneurial
Decision Making
• Strategic orientation
• Focuses on factors that are inputs in formulation
of the firm’s strategy
• Entrepreneurial orientation toward
opportunity
• Commitment to take action on potential
opportunities
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Managerial Versus Entrepreneurial
Decision Making
• Entrepreneurial orientation toward
commitment of resources
• Minimizes resources that would be required in
pursuing a particular opportunity
• Entrepreneurial orientation toward control of
resources
• Focuses on how to access others’ resources
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Managerial Versus Entrepreneurial
Decision Making
• Entrepreneurial orientation toward
management structure
• More organic focus
• Has few layers of bureaucracy between top
management and the customer
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Managerial Versus Entrepreneurial
Decision Making
• Entrepreneurial philosophy toward rewards
• Compensation is based on generation and
exploitation of opportunity
• Entrepreneurial orientation toward growth
• Expand the size, rapid pace
• Entrepreneurial orientation toward culture
• Encourages employees to generate ideas, and
engage in tasks that might produce opportunities
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Learning from Failures
• Dual process model of coping with negative
emotions
• Oscillation between a loss orientation and a
restoration orientation
• Loss orientation
• An approach to negative emotions that involves:
• Working through and processing some aspect of the
loss experience
• Breaking emotional bonds to the object loss
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Learning from Failures
• Restoration orientation
• An approach to negative emotions based on:
• Both avoidance and proactiveness toward secondary
sources of stress arising from a major loss
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