Strategic Entrepreneurship
Creating a New Mindset
Strategic Management Society

1. Edition April 2002
384 Pages, Hardcover
Wiley & Sons Ltd
This volume introduces a new concept - strategic entrepreneurship -
which integrates the insights of entrepreneurship and strategic
management.
* * This volume describes a new concept - strategic
entrepreneurship - which fuses the insights of
entrepreneurship and strategic management.
* The editors have invited the world's finest entrepreneurship
and strategic management scholars to contribute chapters on key
issues that are influencing research in both fields, and to
integrate findings across the two.
* Investigates the overlap between entrepreneurship and strategic
management in the context of six distinct domains: resources and
organizational learning, innovation, alliances and networks,
internationalization, strategic leadership, and growth.
* The contributors use both traditional and new theoretical
approaches in order to further the reader's understanding
of wealth creation in the current business environment.
List of Tables.
List of Contributors.
. Strategic Entrepreneurship: Integrating Entrepreneurial and
Strategic Management Perspectives: Michael A. Hitt (Arizona State
University, USA), R. Duane Ireland (University of Richmond, USA),
S. Michael Camp (Kauffman Center for Entrepreneurship, USA), Donald
L. Sexton (Nova Southeastern University & Kauffman Center for
Entrepreneurial Leadership, USA).
Part I: Entrepreneurship and Strategic Management:.
2. The Entrepreneurship: Strategic Management Interface: G. Dale
Meyer (University of Colorado at Boulder, USA), Heidi M. Neck
(University of Colorado at Boulder, USA), Michael D. Meeks
(University of Colorado at Boulder, USA).
3. Discovery and Coordination in Strategic Management and
Entrepreneurship: Steven Michael (University of Illinois, USA),
David Storey (Open University, UK), Howard Thomas (University of
Illinois, USA).
4. A Framework for Entrepreneurial Strategy: Scott Johnson
(University of Minnesota, USA), Andrew H. Van de Ven (University of
Minnesota, USA).
Part II: Entrepreneurial Resources:.
5. Resource-Based Theory and the Entrepreneurial Firm: Sharon A.
Alvarez (Ohio State University, USA).
6. Overcoming Resource Disadvantages in Entrepreneurial Firms:
When Less is More: Elaine Mosakowski (Purdue University, USA).
Part III: Innovation:.
7. Bisociation, Discovery, and the Role of Entrepreneurial
Action: Ken G. Smith (University of Maryland, USA), Dante Di
Gregorio (University of Maryland, USA), Robert O. Anderson.
8. Market Uncertainty and Learning Distance in Corporate
Entrepreneurship Entry Mode Choice: Robert E. Hoskisson (University
of Oklahoma, USA), Lowell W. Busenitz (Ohio State University,
USA).
9. Implementing Strategies for Corporate Entrepreneurship: A
Knowledge-Based Perspective: Robert K. Kazanjian (Emory University,
USA), Robert Drazin (Emory University, USA), Mary Ann Glynn (Emory
University, USA).
Part IV: Alliances and Networks:.
10. Networks, Alliances and Entrepreneurship: Arnold C. Cooper
(Purdue University, USA).
11. Small Entrepreneurial Firms and Large Companies in
Inter-firm R&D Networks: The International Biotechnology
Industry: John Hagedoorn (University of Maastricht, The
Netherlands), Nadine Roijakkers (University of Maastricht, The
Netherlands).
Part V: International Entrepreneurship:.
12. International Entrepreneurship: The Current Status of the
Field and Future Research Agenda: Shaker A. Zahra (Georgia State
University, USA), Gerard George (University of Wisconsin-Madison,
USA).
13. What Sort of Top Management Team is Needed at the Helm of
Internationally Diversified Firms? Harry Barkema (Tilburg
University, The Netherlands), Oleg Chvyrkov (Tilburg University,
The Netherlands).
Part VI: Strategic Leadership and Growth:.
14. The Entrepreneurial Imperatives of Strategic Leadership:
Jeffrey G. Covin (Indiana University, USA), Dennis P. Slevin
(University of Pittsburgh, USA).
15. Entrepreneurship as Growth; Growth as Entrepreneurship: Per
Davidsson (Jönköping International Business School,
Sweden), Frédéric Delmar (Entrepreneurship and Small
Business Research Institute, Sweden), Johan Wiklund
(Jönköping International Business School, Sweden).
Author Index.
Subject Index.
the Joseph Foster Chair in Business Leadership and the C.W. and
Dorothy Conn Chair in New Ventures at Texas A&M University. He
received his Ph.D. from the University of Colorado. Recently, he
has co-authored Mergers and Acquisitions: A Guide to Creating
Value for Stakeholders (2001) and Strategic Management:
Competitiveness and Globalization (Fourth Edition, 2001). He is
also the co-editor of many volumes, including The Handbook of
Strategic Management (Blackwell Publishers, 2001) and
Creating Value (Blackwell Publishers, 2002). He is a Past
President of the Academy of Management and has served as Editor of
the Academy of Management Journal.
R. Duane Ireland is W. David Robbins Chair in Business
Policy and Professor of Management Systems at the E. Claiborne
Robins School of Business, University of Richmond. He has recently
co-authored Strategic Management: Competitiveness and
Globalization (Fourth Edition, 2001) and Mergers and
Acquisitions: A Guide to Creating Value for Stakeholders
(2001). He is serving or has served as a member of the editorial
review board for Academy of Management Journal, Academy of
Management Review, Academy of Management Executive, and
Journal of Management.
S. Michael Camp is Vice President of Research at the
Kauffman Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership in Kansas City. He
designs and administers the Center's research program in
collaboration with many of the world's leading scholars.
Donald L. Sexton retired as Professor Emeritus from the
Ohio State University in 1994. While at Ohio State University he
held the William H. Davis Chair in Entrepreneurship. He is the
co-author or co-editor of numerous publications including
Leadership and Entrepreneurship (1996), Entrepreneurship
2000 (1997), and The Blackwell Handbook of
Enterpreneurship (Blackwell Publishers, 2000).