Entrepreneurial firms are vital to economic growth because they bring creative insights and unique capabilities to the marketplace. The content of entrepreneurial firm strategies reflect the unique opportunities that the technological breakthroughs, operational efficiencies, and/or marketing...

Clarifies the nature of the entrepreneurial orientation (EO) construct and proposes contingency models for investigating the relationship between EO and firm performance. EO is contrasted to entrepreneurship. Entrepreneurship is new entry. Entrepreneurial orientation is the processes, practices,...

Both scholarly literature and the popular press havestressed the importance of entrepreneurial activities, often assuming positive relations between entrepreneurship and performance outcomes. The author ssuggest that entrepreneurial processes may not always be associated with strong performance....

The goal of this study is to discover why entrepreneursperceive risk contexts differently than their non-entrepreneurial peers do.First, the definition of "risk" in entrepreneurial contexts must beclarified. After a discussion of risk as variance, risk as downside loss, andrisk as...