1. Attending to the External Environment to Identify Potential Opportunities -- 2. Co-contructing an Opportunity With a Community of Inquiry -- 3. A Lean Framework for Starting a New Venture -- 4. Managing New Ventures -- 5. Scaling New Ventures.

Entrepreneurial orientation (EO) is considered as an indicator of firm performance. The literature relating to EO is reviewed and a hypothesis of a universal effect model is developed and tested to explain the relationship of EO to the performance of small business. The fact that the...