Entrepreneurially oriented in what? A business model approach to entrepreneurship

Abstract

Purpose:The aim of this article is to illustrate and argue for the necessity of deconstructing the entrepreneurship concept by analyzing entrepreneurial orientation (EO) at various levels of the business model. Design/methodology/approach:Literature review supplemented with five illustrative cases. Findings:A business model approach to entrepreneurship enables identification of the component of the business model in which entrepreneurship was started. This has several implications for analysis of the EO-performance relationship and for the identification of antecedents to EO. Originality/value:The EO of firms has generally been analyzed at a generic level, i.e. the concept has been used to measure and analyze the overall entrepreneurship of firms. In this paper, we argue that EO can be present in various dimensions of a business and that firms can be entrepreneurial in certain areas and conservative in other areas.

Innovativeness, risk-taking, and proactiveness in startups: a case study and conceptual development

“…For instance, Pérez-Luño et al (2011) note the importance of each of the EO sub-dimensions and especially highlight that innovativeness has been defined too broadly without defining if a firm, for example, adopts or generates innovations. In the same fashion, Andersén et al (2015) argue that the sub-dimensions of EO can be different for different parts of the firm. For example, a firm can be innovative in its marketing while conservative in its product development, and vice versa.…”

“…Indeed, the current literature on EO and its sub-dimensions of innovativeness, risk-taking, and proactiveness has been conceptualized to capture a wide range of phenomena for each sub-dimension. This is highlighted by Andersén et al (2015), who contend that EO needs to be further clarified and that there is value in deconstructing the view of EO, which is often seen at an overall and generic level. This overall view of EO is theoretically modeled as the sub-dimensions reflect the overall EO, and changes in the sub-dimensions are due to a change in the overall EO.…”

A taxonomy of ecopreneurship in small manufacturing firms: A multidimensional cluster analysis

“…Another criticism stresses that EO research only measures outcomes, not the underlying processes, and does not provide a holistic understanding of EO (Randerson, 2016). Furthermore, Andersén et al (2015) argued that EO is generally measured on the generic level, that is, the overall EO of the firm, ignoring fluctuations following the business model components of the firm. Nevertheless, the EO measurements do estimate behavioral practices, forming patterns over time, in turn forming the basis for the firm's strategic decision making (Rauch et al, 2009).…”

Orientación emprendedora en la innovación de las pequeñas y medianas empresas en México/ Entrepreneurial orientation in the innovation of small and medium-sized companies in Mexico

“…4, 2020 _______________________________________________________________________97-114 en el papel que juega la OE en la estrategia y otras actividades emprendedoras; no obstante, un desafío importante en el tema ha sido la dimensionalidad, puesto que tratar al constructo OE como de alto orden agregado no permite la cuantificación de los efectos individuales de las dimensiones de éste (Emőke-Szidónia, 2015). Al respecto, algunos autores ubican a la OE como un concepto fundamentalmente teórico y no empírico (Lumpkin y Dess, 1996;Andersén, Ljungkvist y Svensson, 2015;Linton, 2019), y señalan que solo los datos como resultado de los estudios empíricos puedan validar el cómo se relacionan las dimensiones que la conforman. Por su parte, Wales (2016) señala que implica un análisis tanto para conocer el constructo general de la OE, así como observar los efectos independientes de sus dimensiones.…”