The EO Challenge

Brian S. Anderson ()
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Brian S. Anderson: University of Missouri–Kansas City

Chapter Chapter 1 in Entrepreneurial Orientation and Strategic Leadership, 2021, pp 1-15 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract This chapter introduces the entrepreneurial orientation (EO) construct and touches briefly on critical debates in the literature regarding EO’s epistemological base and the ontological assumptions of various EO conceptualizations. I then turn to key assumptions of various EO conceptualizations in the context of leadership research, centering on temporal stability. An interesting paradox, when studying EO antecedents the critical question for researchers is to identify predictors that effect a construct that, by definition, does not vary much over time. I then discuss critical measurement issues in the EO literature, specifically focusing on antecedent-to-EO models. This leads to a discussion of causal inference in this context, and challenges to establishing a causal claim in strategic leadership-EO research.

Keywords: Antecedents to Entrepreneurial Orientation; Temporal stability; Causal inference; Measurement theory (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-87300-4_1

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