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  title info:
    title: Creativity and Entrepreneurial Performance
    sub title: A General Scientific Theory
  name:
    name part: McMullan, W. Edward.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Kenworthy, Thomas P.
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2015
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XIV, 207 p. 12 illus., 5 illus. in color. online resource.
  abstract: The essential problem in entrepreneurship is improving the performance of entrepreneurs. The most important theories will be the ones that most enable us to predict and then ultimately influence entrepreneurial performance. This book develops a new and more accurate theory of entrepreneurial performance based in entrepreneurial creativity. The field of entrepreneurship has a long tradition of expecting entrepreneurial performance to be influenced by creativity, tracing back even before the pioneering work of Joseph Schumpeter (1883 to 1950), who defined entrepreneurship as creative-destruction—creating the new by supplanting or destroying the old. Subsequently, psychologist Robert Sternberg defined creativity as broadly encompassing creative aspects of personality, motivation, intellect, thinking style and relevant knowledge. Using Sternberg’s definition of creativity, the authors reviewed the evidence directly linking entrepreneurial creativity and entrepreneurial performance, concluding that the linkage is both statistically and practically significant. In order to scientifically tie entrepreneurship to creativity the book pursues a number of major objectives: In parts one and two, the authors remind us of our scientific challenge in the light of the depressing levels of performance typically to be found in the real world of entrepreneurship, and explores the limitations of the dominant paradigms driving research in the field of entrepreneurship today. In part three, they bring together existing evidence to demonstrate the predictive and explanatory powers of creativity in relation to entrepreneurship. In part four, they further explore correlations between creativity and entrepreneurial performance at the individual and macro, or society, levels. In summary, the book offers a bold predictive theory claiming to predict 30 to 50% of entrepreneurial performance variance. This result is a general scientific theory that offers a serious challenge to entrepreneurial sc…
  table of contents: 1 Introduction -- Part A Understanding Entrepreneurial Problems -- 2 Entrepreneurial Work Experience -- Part B Major Entrepreneurial Paradigms -- 3 Small Business Entrepreneurship -- 4 The Social Science of Entrepreneurship -- Part C A General Scientific Theory of Entrepreneurial Creativity -- 5 Modernizing Schumpeter -- 6 Entrepreneurial Creativity and Venture Performance -- 7 Explanatory Power -- Part D Elaborating the Model -- 8 Entrepreneurial Creativity -- 9 Entrepreneurial Dynamics -- 10 Developing Entrepreneurial Creativity -- 11 Towards a Macro Theory of Entrepreneurial Creativity.
  note: by W. Edward McMullan, Thomas P. Kenworthy.
  subject:
    topic: Business
  subject:
    topic: Entrepreneurship
  subject:
    topic: Leadership
  subject:
    topic: Organization
  subject:
    topic: Planning
  subject:
    topic: Industrial psychology
  subject:
    topic: Business and Management
  subject:
    topic: Entrepreneurship
  subject:
    topic: Organization
  subject:
    topic: Business Strategy/Leadership
  subject:
    topic: Industrial, Organisational and Economic Psychology
  classification: HB615
  classification: 658.421
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      title: Springer eBooks
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    title info:
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  identifier: 9783319047263
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-04726-3
  record info:
    record creation date: 141018
    record change date: 20151204155449.0
    record identifier: 978-3-319-04726-3