AN EXAMINATION OF THE COMPETITIVE ATTITUDES OF ENTREPRENEURS: IMPLICATIONS FOR ENTREPRENEURIAL ORIENTATION AT THE INDIVIDUAL LEVEL

2013 ◽  
Vol 18 (02) ◽  
pp. 1350008 ◽  
Author(s):  
RAE ANDRÉ

This study examined the competitive attitudes of entrepreneurs using the psychological theory of hyper-competitiveness versus personal development competitiveness in data from a cross-section of small business entrepreneurs. Results suggest most entrepreneurs view themselves, and their cohort, as personal development (e. g., growth oriented) competitors rather than as hypercompetitors (e. g., dominant individuals). The analysis suggests that, when applied at the individual level, the entrepreneurial orientation dimension of competitive aggressiveness should be reconceptualized to include not only hyper-competitiveness but also personal development competitiveness. Implications for the theories of entrepreneurial gender, affective engagement, interactional competitiveness and self-actualization are discussed.

2018 ◽  
Vol 43 (3) ◽  
pp. 529-552
Author(s):  
Rodney C. Runyan ◽  
Jeffrey G. Covin

Entrepreneurship and small business management literatures diverged decades ago, with the former receiving the bulk of subsequent scholarly attention. The concept of a small business orientation (SBO) has not been widely and consistently employed in the literature. We present a conceptual framework aimed at clarifying the construct of SBO, and conceptualize SBO as a firm size- and age-independent phenomenon operating at the individual level, and reflecting manager values about how the business ought to be conducted. We discuss the values-based derivation of SBO, identify elements of this multidimensional construct, its likely consequences, and propose future research directions.


2019 ◽  
Vol 61 (6) ◽  
pp. 718-736
Author(s):  
Swagatika Sahoo ◽  
Rajeev Kumar Panda

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to empirically investigate the impact of the contextual antecedents on the individual entrepreneurial orientation (IEO) of university graduates, which, in turn, affects their entrepreneurial intentions (EIs). Design/methodology/approach Primary data were collected in the form of 510 valid responses from engineering students across two technical universities in India, through a structured questionnaire consisting of scales adapted from the extant literature, and the data were empirically validated in this study. The reliability and validity measures of the constructs were validated through the confirmatory factor analysis, and the proposed hypotheses were validated using structural equation modelling. Findings The results of this empirical analysis validate that the contextual antecedents have a significant positive impact on students’ entrepreneurial orientation (EO), which, in turn, has a significant positive influence on EIs. Research limitations/implications This analysis depicts the significance of EO as a perceptual driver at the individual level and substantiates that the availability of resources such as startup capital, access to business information, social networks and supportive university context significantly affects the decision-making process of an individual to venture into an otherwise uncertain occupation of entrepreneurship. Practical implications The study has the likely potential to help university administrators and policymakers to allocate resources, develop strategies and provide effective entrepreneurial learning in entrepreneurship-oriented courses aimed at honing entrepreneurial skills and self-confidence of the university students. This holistic model can be used as a tool for resource planning and prioritising in order to provide the desired contextual support essential for fostering the IEO of the university students towards adopting entrepreneurial career, thereby assisting them to achieve their career goals and the broader objective of nation-building. Originality/value This study adopts an innovative approach to empirically validate the EO construct at the individual level, which has been studied at the organisation (firm) level till today. This research explores the relevant contextual antecedents and analyses their impact on IEO as well as the explanatory capacity of IEO to explain students’ EIs in the contextual backdrop of universities in a fast transitioning economy like India.


Transilvania ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 51-61
Author(s):  
Elena Trifan

The article aims to analyze the ways in which personal development is used as a tool to manage social justice issues, domestic violence cases and other forms of structural inequality. In most works in the social sciences, self-help discourse has been criticized for reiterating the individualizing neoliberal discourse that leads to growing social inequalities, along with blaming the most vulnerable for their own fate. However, personal development as a practice has been used by organizations working at community level to address personal issues caused by social inequalities. The analysis aims to present the intertwining of global ideological and political plans at the individual level through non-governmental organizations, their projects and personal development courses. The research consisted in the analysis of the activities and projects of the organizations that are part of the Network for Preventing and Combating Violence against Women (VIF) and the ethnography data of personal development practices in Romania from a previous research.


2021 ◽  
Vol 67 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
G. B. Nietbaeva ◽  

This article discusses the influence of the features of the development of self-actualization of the individual in adolescence and its influence on the development of character accentuations. Adolescence is a difficult period, during which the psychological education necessary for a mature person is formed. Any crisis that a person goes through is associated with severe psychoemotional stress, which can potentially become one of the factors of personality maladaptation in adolescence. Self-actualization is a complex process that is one of the driving forces of personal development. The formation of traits characteristic of a self-actualized personality has a significant impact on the adaptability of young people and can have both positive and negative effects. In the experimental part of the study, correlations were found between certain traits of self-actualization of the individual and the manifestation of character accentuations


2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ahmad Raza Bilal ◽  
Tehreem Fatima

Purpose This study aims to extend the much-held strategic entrepreneurial orientation stance and conceptualized it as a psychological disposition of small- and medium-scale enterprises (SMEs) owners. Based on this notion, the authors theorized that individual entrepreneurial orientation (IEO) is a precursor of success in manufacturing sector SMEs. Building on the credo of action regulation, the authors clarified the IEO and SMEs’ success association by introducing exploration activities as a conduit. Further, the authors posited that entrepreneurial alertness augments the nexus of IEO, exploration activities and SMEs success. Design/methodology/approach A three-wave survey was done by drawing a cluster-based sample of 389 SME owners in the manufacturing sector of Pakistan. The mediation and moderation analysis were done by PROCESS macro that uses bootstrapping with 5,000 draws to calculate the indirect (Model 4), conditional and conditional indirect effects (Model 7) at a 95% confidence interval. Findings The results offered empirical support to the conjectured association among IEO and SMEs’ success mediated by exploration activities. Moreover, the conditional direct (between IEO and exploration activities) and indirect impact (among IEO and SMEs’ success mediated by exploration activities) of entrepreneurial alertness was substantiated. Originality/value The authors added to the sprouting body of knowledge in the field of entrepreneurial orientation by focusing on its individual-level psychological conception. The authors have unlocked the interplay between IEO and SMEs’ success via the role of action characteristics of exploration activities and entrepreneurial alertness based on the action regulation tenet. Thus, the authors made a novel contribution by linking the micro-level entrepreneurial orientation and actions with macro-level SMEs' success.


2011 ◽  
Vol 19 (02) ◽  
pp. 169-200 ◽  
Author(s):  
CLAUDE MARCOTTE

Up to now, the focus in comparative international entrepreneurship has been on individual-level indicators of entrepreneurial activity, such as nascent entrepreneurship and small business ownership. However, measuring only the individual component of entrepreneurship appears conceptually incomplete, as it leaves out other important ones, the most obvious being the organizational component. Countries may have different entrepreneurship profiles, depending on the allocation of entrepreneurial endeavors across various levels and dimensions. To augment the content validity of current measurements, this paper aims to integrate and compare individual and organizational indicators of entrepreneurial activity in 22 member countries of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). The inclusion of corporate entrepreneurship indicators, derived from the entrepreneurial orientation concept, modified substantially the country rankings based only on small business ownership rates. A significant negative relationship was found between individual and corporate indicators.


1970 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 269-276
Author(s):  
Марія Заміщак

Аналізуються психологічні чинники особистісної професіоналізації майбутнього педагога. Розглянуто особистісне становлення у взаємозв’язку із самовизначенням особистості під час професійного навчання. Виділено, що професіоналізація у вищому навчальному закладі є процесом самоактуалізації особистості в умовах навчально-професійної діяльності та спілкування, що спрямований на максимальну реалізацію власних можливостей та професійно-особистісних особливостей. Визначено значущість психологічної, соціальної, моральної та духовної ситуації вищого навчального закладу, який впливає на самовизначення майбутнього педагога, формування його світоглядних орієнтацій, здатностей, професійних компетентностей, прийняття та засвоєння ним цінностей, прогнозування життєвих цілей. Обгрунтовано суть професіоналізації в студентів – майбутніх педагогів як цілісного психолого-педагогічного процесу, її впливу на самовизначення та самореалізацію, розвиток готовності до рішення професійних завдань та самовиховання особистісних здатностей, значущих для набуття професіоналізму майбутніми педагогами. Показано, що уже з першого курсу при вивченні предмету загальної психології структура психолого-педагогічного супроводу особистісного розвитку майбутнього педагога має включати: уявлення про професію, знання про вимоги професії до особистості, про особистість як соціальний, психологічний, моральний та духовний феномен. Analyzes the psychological factors of personal future teacher professionalization. We consider the formation of personal relationship with self-identity during training. Highlight that professionalisation in higher education is a process of self-actualization in terms of educational and professional activities and communication that aims to maximize the opportunities and their own professional and personal characteristics. Determined the significance of psychological, social, moral and spiritual situation of the university, which affects the determination of future teachers, the formation of his philosophical orientation, ability, professional competence, acceptance and assimilation of values, life goals forecasting. Grounded in the essence of the professionalization of students - future teachers as a complete psycho-pedagogical process, its impact on self-determination and self-realization, developing preparedness solutions professional tasks and personal self-ability, important for acquiring professional future teachers. It is shown that already with the first course in the study of the subject of psychology structure of psycho-pedagogical support of personal development of future teachers should include: understanding of the profession, knowledge of the requirements of the profession to the personality of the individual as a social, psychological, moral and spiritual phenomenon.


2016 ◽  
Vol 27 (5) ◽  
pp. 640-661 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Margaretha Malm ◽  
Anna Fredriksson ◽  
Kerstin Johansen

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore how capability gaps can be identified and how they can be dealt with in aircraft technology transfers in future offset deals. Design/methodology/approach – The study is based on lessons learned as identified from three case studies of technology transfers from Saab, a Swedish aircraft manufacturing company to South Africa, the Czech Republic, and India. Findings – The capability gap between sender and receiver has to be dealt with on two levels: on an organizational level; and on an individual level. It is proposed that the disseminative capacity constitutes the ability to assess the capability gap between the sender and receiver, and to convert this assessment to adaptations of the product and production process to include in an industrialization process. On the individual level, the capability-raising activities were connected to employees’ knowledge, personal development plans for the transfer of explicit knowledge, as well as on-the-job training to facilitate the exchange of tacit knowledge. Research limitations/implications – The research is based on case studies from one company. Therefore, it is necessary to confirm the proposed propositions through new case studies in other contexts as well as through survey-based research. Originality/value – The paper focusses on the context of offset and reports on actual experiences from a capability perspective of technology transfers within the aircraft manufacturing area. It proposes a structured way of identifying and bridging the capability gap within such transfers.


2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Heru Santosa Hadiyanto

Thedevelopmentofentrepreneurshiptheorystatesthatentrepreneurshipasamindset. Some other literature has even linked strategy management with entrepreneurship into an inseparable construct. One of the equations contained that entrepreneurship-related top roduce wealth,whil estrategic management related to the create competitive advantage which ultimately plays an important role in wealth creation. With similarities, talking about the entrepreneurial mindset certainly cannot be separated from the strategic mindset itself. Generally, strategic mindset here can be classify into two orientation, artist and scientist.Given that the mindset there is related to way of gathering information or way of thinking, the research here attempts to identify what kind pattern of thinking that can create high entrepreneurial orientation. Research here is more focus about entrepreneurs at the individual level, not in the context of companies or organizations. The final output in this paper is to build proposition and conceptual model abour entrepreneurial artist and scientist to be testing in further research. Keywords: entrepreneurial orientation, artist, scientist, way of gathering


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