Corporate entrepreneurial leadership, resources, capabilities, and sustainable performance

Abstract

Corporate entrepreneurial leadership (CEL) plays a critical role in promoting innovative behavior that disrupts existing practices in organizations, to say the least, encouraging new policy initiatives that could affect the business and social performance of the organizations under their sustainable development goals (SDGs). CEL can help achieve SDGs by redesigning different contextual factors to help promote various policy initiatives. In this vein, this study identifies the factors which could improve the business and social performance of the organizations helping to achieve SDGs through an amalgam of theoretical lenses, particularly the dynamic capability view. Based on extant literature, we developed, validated, and applied a theoretical model using the partial least square structural equation modeling technique on data collected from 327 respondents from different organizations. The study found that CEL capability significantly and positively impacts the various organizational entities and resources, which in turn affects the business and social performance of the organizations. Theoretical and managerial implications of the findings are also discussed.

Strengthening entrepreneur business performance for South African SMEs by integrating behavioural courses into business skills training

“…Enhancing focus on stakeholder engagement is crucial for strengthening entrepreneur business performance (Anbarasan & Sushil, 2018;Chaudhuri et al, 2024) in South African SMEs by integrating behavioural courses into business skills training. According to Grewatsch and Kleindienst (2018), this approach involves actively engaging with various stakeholders, including customers, suppliers, employees, and the broader community, to better understand their needs and expectations.…”