Entrepreneurship and innovativeness of small and medium-sized construction enterprises

Staniewski, Marcin W.; Nowacki, Robert; Awruk, Katarzyna

doi:10.1007/s11365-016-0385-8

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“…More specifically it plays an important role at the firm level. For example, Staniewski et al [52] suggested that a strong leadership and a highly qualified educated manager would contribute to the innovative activity of construction enterprises. The majority of researchers referred to transformational leadership and transactional leadership as the core effective leadership behavior in organizations.…”

Section: Ambidextrous Leadership and Sustainability-based Project Permentioning

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Ambidextrous Leadership and Sustainability-Based Project Performance: The Role of Project Culture

Zheng

Xie

et al. 2017

Sustainability

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Most studies in the project management field emphasized the effects of leaders or managers, but these effects have rarely been examined at the project level. To cover this research gap, this study applies organizational ambidexterity theory to examine the effects among ambidextrous leadership, ambidextrous culture and sustainability-based project performance. Using a valid sample of 217 project leaders and members from Chinese construction projects, the method of multiple linear regression was adopted to assess the direct relationship among ambidextrous leadership, ambidextrous culture and project performance. Moreover, the bootstrapping technique through structural equation modeling, has been used to analyze the mediating effect of ambidextrous culture. Additionally, the sample data was divided into different groups according to the median value of the variables to conduct the ANOVA and to assess the within-group differences. The results indicated a positive and direct relationship that ambidextrous leadership has on project performance and ambidextrous culture. In addition, there was also a mediating impact of ambidextrous leadership on project performance via ambidextrous culture. Thus, ambidextrous leadership combined with transformational leadership as well as transactional leadership likely has a stronger positive impact on project performance through fostering the adaptive culture and consistent culture. Our findings contribute to an in-depth understanding of the role of the leader and culture for project outcomes. The project-based organization in construction projects could train project leaders' ambidextrous leadership behavior to facilitate the formation of an ambidextrous culture and to increase project performance. Moreover, this study enriches the existing literature on leadership and project management by highlighting the important path of ambidextrous leadership and ambidextrous culture on the performance at the project level and going beyond the single leadership behavior or single culture.

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Section: Ambidextrous Leadership and Sustainability-based Project Permentioning

confidence: 99%

Ambidextrous Leadership and Sustainability-Based Project Performance: The Role of Project Culture

Zheng

Xie

et al. 2017

Sustainability

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“…Available reports also suggest that most of the operators in the manufacturing sector are SMEs engaged in processing, production and delivery of goods [37]. Consequently, to achieve optimal economic development and to reduce dependency on crude oil for redistribution of economic wealth, the government of Nigeria seeks rescue from the SME sector by employing economic diversification [40][41][42][43][44][45][46][47][48][49][50][51].…”

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Determinants of Small and Medium Enterprises Performance in Nigeria: The Role of Government Support Policy

Ibrahim¹,

Mustapha²

2019

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Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) play a significant social and economic role in both developed and developing nations. Despite the relevance and important of SMEs, the literature indicates there are very few studies that attempted to investigate the factors that influence the performance of SMEs in Nigeria, particularly the relationship between entrepreneurial orientation (EO), contemporary marketing (CM) and government support policyand the performance of small and medium enterprises (SMEs). The study used structured questionnaires; data was collected from 240 SMEs in northeast Nigeria. The findings of the study indicate a significant positive relationship between EO and CM on the Performance of SMEs. In addition, the results of the study validate that government support policy moderates the relationship between EO and CM on the performance of SMEs in Nigeria. The study implications for policy makers, government, regulators and SMEs owner-managers is to look at government support policy as it affects SMEs performance by providing conducive environment for business operation.

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“…Elde edilen bulgular incelendiğinde fen bilimleri öğretmen adaylarının bir kısmının iletişim ve yaratıcı düşünme becerilerini belirttikleri görülmektedir. Bu becerilerin yanı sıra girişimcilik becerisine sahip olan bireylerin genellikle risk alma (Chimwai ve Munyanyi, 2019;McCarthy, Puffer ve Lamin, 2018;Zahra, 2018), vizyon sahibi olma (Ratten ve Ferreira, 2017), yenilikçi olma (Dwivedi ve Weerawardena, 2018;Staniewski, Nowacki ve Awruk, 2016;Vnoučková, 2018), rekabet üstünlüğü sağlayabilme (Kadir vd., 2017;Ogunkoya, 2018) gibi temel özellikleri de sahip olması gerekmektedir. Adayların ise çok azının bu özellikleri vurguladıkları dikkat çekmektedir.…”

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Fen Bilimleri Öğretmen Adaylarının Girişimcilik Becerisine Yönelik Mesleki Bilgilerinin Tespit Edilmesi

İnaltekin¹,

Samanci²,

Bilgin³

2019

OPUS Uluslararası Toplum Araştırmaları Dergisi

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ÖzBu araştırmada fen bilimleri 3. sınıf öğretmen adaylarının, girişimcilik becerisi üzerine mesleki bilgilerinin tespit edilmesi amaçlanmaktadır. Alan taraması yöntemi ile yürütülen araştırmaya 141 üçüncü sınıf fen bilimleri öğretmen adayı katılmıştır. Veriler 2017-2018 akademik yılı bahar dönemi sonunda açık uçlu sorulardan oluşan girişimcilik becerisini tanıma testi ile toplanmıştır. Elde edilen veriler girişimcilik becerisi göstergeleri göz önünde bulundurularak, içerik analizi yoluyla çözümlenmiştir. Araştırma sonucunda fen bilimleri öğretmen adaylarının girişimcilik becerisine sahip bireylerin özelliklerini açıklamada ve bu özellikleri geliştirmek için etkinlik tasarlamada yetersiz oldukları tespit edilmiştir. Fen bilimleri öğretmen adayları, ortaokul öğrencilerinin girişimcilik becerilerini geliştirebilmek için herhangi bir etkinlik tasarlayamamışlardır. Adaylar arasında girişimcilik becerisini ölçebilecek bir aracı mesleki açıdan yeterli düzeyde tasarlayan olmamakla birlikte çok azı ölçme aracını yetersiz düzeyde açıklayabilmiştir. Ölçme yapıldıktan sonra değerlendirme işleminin nasıl olması gerektiğini açıklayan öğretmen adayı ise bulunmamaktadır. Genel anlamda mevcut araştırmadan, fen bilimleri öğretmen adaylarının fen bilimleri dersinde ortaokul öğrencilerinin girişimcilik becerisini kazandırmaya, ölçmeye ve değerlendirmeye yönelik süreçler üzerine mesleki bilgilerinin yetersiz olduğu sonucu çıkarılmıştır Anahtar Kelimeler: Girişimcilik becerisi, Fen bilimleri eğitimi, Öğretmen adayı 1 3501 nolu, 117K993 kodlu TÜBİTAK projesinin bir bölümünü oluşturmaktadır. * AbstractIn this research, it is aimed to determine the professional knowledge of the third grade prospective science teachers on entrepreneurship skills. 141 third grade prospective science teachers participated in the study which was conducted by field scanning method. The data were collected with an entrepreneurship skills recognition test consisting of open-ended questions at the end of the spring semester of the 2017-2018 academic year. The data obtained were analyzed through content analysis by taking entrepreneurship skills indicators into account. As a result of the research, it was determined that science teacher candidates were insufficient in explaining the characteristics of individuals with entrepreneurial skills and designing activities to improve these characteristics. Prospective science teachers could not design any activity to develop entrepreneurship skills of secondary school students. Although there is no one among the candidates designing a tool that can measure entrepreneurship skills vocationally enough, few could explain the measurement tool inadequately. There is no prospective teacher explaining how the evaluation process must be after the assessment. In general, it was concluded from the current research that the prospective science teachers' professional knowledge on the processes of bringing secondary school students entrepreneurship skills in the science course, measuring and evaluating was insufficient.

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Entrepreneurship and innovativeness of small and medium-sized construction enterprises

Cited by 56 publications

References 64 publications

Ambidextrous Leadership and Sustainability-Based Project Performance: The Role of Project Culture

Ambidextrous Leadership and Sustainability-Based Project Performance: The Role of Project Culture

Determinants of Small and Medium Enterprises Performance in Nigeria: The Role of Government Support Policy

Fen Bilimleri Öğretmen Adaylarının Girişimcilik Becerisine Yönelik Mesleki Bilgilerinin Tespit Edilmesi

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