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Creativity and Entrepreneurial Performance: A General Scientific Theory: Exploring Diversity in Entrepreneurship

Autor W. Edward McMullan, Thomas P. Kenworthy
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 5 noi 2014
The essential problem in entrepreneurship is improving the performance of entrepreneurs. The most important theories will be the ones that most enable us to predict and then ultimately influence entrepreneurial performance. This book develops a new and more accurate theory of entrepreneurial performance based in entrepreneurial creativity. The field of entrepreneurship has a long tradition of expecting entrepreneurial performance to be influenced by creativity, tracing back even before the pioneering work of Joseph Schumpeter (1883 to 1950), who defined entrepreneurship as creative-destruction—creating the new by supplanting or destroying the old. Subsequently, psychologist Robert Sternberg defined creativity as broadly encompassing creative aspects of personality, motivation, intellect, thinking style and relevant knowledge. Using Sternberg’s definition of creativity, the authors reviewed the evidence directly linking entrepreneurial creativity and entrepreneurial performance, concluding that the linkage is both statistically and practically significant. In order to scientifically tie entrepreneurship to creativity the book pursues a number of major objectives: In parts one and two, the authors remind us of our scientific challenge in the light of the depressing levels of performance typically to be found in the real world of entrepreneurship and explores the limitations of the dominant paradigms driving research in the field of entrepreneurship today. In part three, they bring together existing evidence to demonstrate the predictive and explanatory powers of creativity in relation to entrepreneurship. In part four, they further explore correlations between creativity and entrepreneurial performance at the individual and macro or society, levels. In summary, the book offers a bold predictive theory linking entrepreneurial creativity to entrepreneurial performance, however neither as boldly as a definitional linkage nor as timidly as one in a hundred or sofactors potentially explaining entrepreneurial performance. This result is a general scientific theory that offers a serious challenge to entrepreneurial scholars who are pursuing other means for understanding the causality of entrepreneurial performance.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9783319047256
ISBN-10: 3319047256
Pagini: 207
Ilustrații: XIV, 207 p. 12 illus., 5 illus. in color.
Dimensiuni: 155 x 235 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.49 kg
Ediția:2015
Editura: Springer International Publishing
Colecția Springer
Seria Exploring Diversity in Entrepreneurship

Locul publicării:Cham, Switzerland

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Cuprins

1 Introduction.- Part A Understanding Entrepreneurial Problems.- 2 Entrepreneurial Work Experience.- Part B Major Entrepreneurial Paradigms.- 3 Small Business Entrepreneurship.- 4 The Social Science of Entrepreneurship.- Part C A General Scientific Theory of Entrepreneurial Creativity.- 5 Modernizing Schumpeter.- 6 Entrepreneurial Creativity and Venture Performance.- 7 Explanatory Power.- Part D Elaborating the Model.- 8 Entrepreneurial Creativity.- 9 Entrepreneurial Dynamics.- 10 Developing Entrepreneurial Creativity.- 11 Towards a Macro Theory of Entrepreneurial Creativity.

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The essential problem in entrepreneurship is improving the performance of entrepreneurs. The most important theories will be the ones that most enable us to predict and then ultimately influence entrepreneurial performance. This book develops a new and more accurate theory of entrepreneurial performance based in entrepreneurial creativity. The field of entrepreneurship has a long tradition of expecting entrepreneurial performance to be influenced by creativity, tracing back even before the pioneering work of Joseph Schumpeter (1883 to 1950), who defined entrepreneurship as creative-destruction—creating the new by supplanting or destroying the old. Subsequently, psychologist Robert Sternberg defined creativity as broadly encompassing creative aspects of personality, motivation, intellect, thinking style and relevant knowledge. Using Sternberg’s definition of creativity, the authors reviewed the evidence directly linking entrepreneurial creativity and entrepreneurial performance, concluding that the linkage is both statistically and practically significant. In order to scientifically tie entrepreneurship to creativity the book pursues a number of major objectives: In parts one and two, the authors remind us of our scientific challenge in the light of the depressing levels of performance typically to be found in the real world of entrepreneurship, and explores the limitations of the dominant paradigms driving research in the field of entrepreneurship today. In part three, they bring together existing evidence to demonstrate the predictive and explanatory powers of creativity in relation to entrepreneurship. In part four, they further explore correlations between creativity and entrepreneurial performance at the individual and macro, or society, levels. In summary, the book offers a bold predictive theory claiming to predict 30 to 50% of entrepreneurial performance variance. This result is a general scientific theory that offers a serious challenge toentrepreneurial scholars who are pursuing other means for understanding the causality of entrepreneurial performance.

Caracteristici

Develops a new and more accurate scientific theory of entrepreneurial performance based in entrepreneurial creativity Builds on pre-existing, established theory from Economics/Entrepreneurship (Schumpeter) and Psychology/Creativity (Sternberg & Lubart) Reviews related empirical research and provides a predictive model of entrepreneurial outcomes Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras