Minet Schindehutte

• Professor (Associate) at Syracuse University

The present study examines entrepreneurship in established firms holistically and critically. The authors start by reviewing previous research and highlight a variety of definitional, conceptual, methodological, contextual, and temporal factors that have been confounding the research. The authors then present a multidimensional framework that speci...

Although entrepreneurship is not a new phenomenon, attempts to study it in a systematic manner are fairly recent. The field of entrepreneurship has evolved in a rather disjointed or seemingly random manner, and entrepreneurship has developed as a business discipline by borrowing, building upon, and adapting theoretical and conceptual work from such...

The paper seeks to address the tension between apparently context-free entrepreneurship theories and context-bound and context-laden entrepreneurship practices. Two primary sets of issues are addressed: the meaning and use of context, and how, where, when, why and for whom does one ‘contextualize’. The manner in which entrepreneurship scholars curr...

Triggering events in corporate entrepreneurship are explored, with particular attention to the ways in which triggers impact upon and are impacted by the marketing function, types of triggers, key ways for classifying them and how the role of marketing might vary depending upon the type or category of trigger.

'This scholarly, theoretical, and thought-provoking volume examines the intertwined nature of business ventures and the entrepreneurs who undertake them, underscoring how both change based on the experiences encountered during the development of a venture. . . This work can be used as the basis for research on the entrepreneurial experience to bett...

Building on affective events theory (AET), an experiential perspective for conceptualizing entrepreneurship is introduced. As a “lived experience,” entrepreneurship represents a cumulative series of interdependent events that takes on properties rooted in affect and emotion. Unique characteristics of entrepreneurial experiences are examined. The en...

The potential transformative impact of university-based entrepreneurship programs on local economic development is examined using the example of a multifaceted inner city initiative. Using complex adaptive systems theory as a guiding framework, core elements of the South Side Entrepreneurial Connect Program (SSECP) are summarized. The emergence of...

The Red Queen effect is examined as a common scenario affecting contemporary marketers. Entrepreneurial marketing (EM) is posited as an organisational response to threatening, turbulent conditions. Work on EM is extended in this article to include entrepreneurial marketing strategy. Characteristics of such strategies are explored. It is argued that...

Five areas are identified wherein more development might enhance the current model of strategic entrepreneurship (SE): exploration–exploitation, opportunity, newness, micro–macro interaction, and dynamics. Complexity science is presented as an alternative theoretical lens for addressing these issues, and enhancing the potential of SE in a world cha...

The experiential nature of entrepreneurship is receiving increased scholarly attention. Kreft and Sobel (2005) characterize venture creation as a trial and error experience, while Sarasvathy (2004) suggests the ability to effectuate outcomes is rooted in ongoing experiences. Politis (2005) argues that entrepreneurial learning results from the manne...

In recent years, the marketing literature has placed significant emphasis on market-driving and proactive market-driven behavior within firms in attempts to reconceptualize the meaning of market orientation. For their part, market-driving firms such as Starbucks, Amazon.com, Dell, and Southwest Airlines are demonstrating how business model innovati...

While heavily emphasized within for-profit organizations, little is understood regarding the role of entrepreneurial leadership in the development, growth, and sustainability of non-profit enterprises. The fundamental logic of entrepreneurship is less apparent in this context given the social mission and multiple stakeholders involved. Building on...

A “thinking-doing” link is central to prevailing views on entrepreneurial cognition (Mitchell, et al, 2007) as an antecedent of entrepreneurial action (McMullen & Shepherd, 2006) in which the entrepreneurial mindset (McGrath & MacMillan, 2000) is a dispositional characteristic of the person-in-situation. A boundedly rational, satisficing thinker (S...

Entrepreneurship scholars have focused primarily on the rewards of entrepreneuring behaviors. As an alternative to this perspective, we examine serial entrepreneurship through the lens of psychological addiction, and demonstrate how such a frame can yield important insights into behaviors that represent a possible ‘dark side’ of entrepreneurial act...

As organizations evolve, a variety of procedures, planning requirements, budgetary policies, and operating guidelines are put in place in order to facilitate control of operations. The system of controls within an organization can be an important inhibitor or facilitator of a firm's strategic initiatives. Entrepreneuriai initiatives represent a cas...

How do entrepreneurs experience entrepreneurship, and what are the implications? The cognitive and emotional experiences of the entrepreneur as he/she performs the tasks associated with venture creation and high growth have received limited attention from researchers. The entrepreneurial context can be characterized in terms of peaks and valleys, o...

A vital question receiving only limited attention in the extant research concerns the implications of culturally based values for the successful creation and growth of entrepreneurial ventures. This study explores core values held by entrepreneurs in growth-oriented firms belonging to six subcultures based in the state of Hawaii. Thirty first-gener...

Highly emphasized in entrepreneurial practice, business models have received limited attention from researchers. No consensus exists regarding the definition, nature, structure, and evolution of business models. Still, the business model holds promise as a unifying unit of analysis that can facilitate theory development in entrepreneurship. This ar...

Attempts to understand the heterogeneous nature of the population of entrepreneurs are relatively few in number, and focus largely on gender, race, ethnicity, age and educational differences. The experiences of many other key cohorts have been ignored, including those of gay, lesbian and bisexual (GLB) individuals. This paper examines the concept o...

Although female entrepreneurs struggle to balance work and family life, little attention has been paid to the effects of the entrepreneurial lifestyle on their children.A study of women entrepreneurs from the United States, a developed nation, and South Africa, a developing nation, promises to illuminate the impact of women's entrepreneurial activi...

Business models are presented as a powerful but frequently misunderstood and underemphasized pedagogical tool for entrepreneurship educators. Diverse perspectives regarding the nature of a business model are examined, and a strategically-focused approach is proposed. Different roles for a model in an entrepreneurial context are outlined. The availa...

The aim of this study is to increase our understanding of the ethical climate of entrepreneurial firms as they grow and develop. A developmental framework is introduced to describe the formal and informal ethical structures that emerge in entrepreneurial firms over time. Factors influencing where firms are within the developmental framework are pos...

The purpose of this paper is to critically explore the construct of entrepreneurial marketing (EM). This term is used as an integrative conceptualization that reflects such alternative perspectives as guerrilla marketing, radical marketing, expeditionary marketing, disruptive marketing and others. Seven core dimensions of EM are identified, and an...

While considerable attention has been devoted to the personality traits of entrepreneurs, less attention has been given to their values, especially outside of a Western context. Values are instrumental in the decision to pursue entrepreneurship, and have implications for the entrepreneurʼs approach to creating and managing the venture. The role of...

Examines the concept of adaptation as it relates to the start-up and survival of small businesses over time. Adaptation is approached as the making of appropriate adjustments to the business and its strategic focus, as the venture evolves from an initial idea to a successful business. It is proposed that adaptation has three relevant components: th...

While the area of entrepreneurship has grown dramatically in recent years, both in terms of courses taught and the volume of research undertaken, the field has historically relied heavily on other disciplines for much of its content. More recently, a body of core content has emerged within the field of entrepreneurship, although in a somewhat disjo...

The interface between entrepreneurship and marketing in established companies is explored. It is argued that the conventional role of marketing varies with the type of entrepreneurship, but that the role tends to be reactive or adaptive. An entrepreneurial perspective on marketing is introduced. Factors that initiate entrepreneurial events are exam...

This chapter examines the factors that promote entrepreneurial projects in established companies. A set of forty triggers is proposed and ways in which triggers can be classified are suggested. A conceptual model links types of triggers to specific types of entrepreneurial projects and to outcomes. To test the model, surveys were conducted with com...

The bimetallic complex [cis-(CO)4{(MeO)3P}Mn{μ-η1:η6-C6H5C(O)}Cr(CO)3] (1) was obtained by the reaction of [(η6-C6H5Li)Cr(CO)3] with Mn(CO)5Br in the presence of one equivalent of P(OMe)3 at low temperature. The structure of 1, determined by single crystal X-ray diffraction methods, shows the coordination around the manganese atom to be approximate...

New heterobimetallic and trimetallic complexes of titanium, [Ti(eta(5)-C5H5)2(Cl)(mu-eta(1):eta(6)-RC6H4)Cr(CO)3] (R = H (1), omicron-F (2), p-CH3 (3), m-CH3 (4), [Ti(eta(5)-C5H5)2(Cl)(mu-eta(1):eta(6)-C6Me5CH2)Cr(CO)3] (5), and [(mu-{Ti(eta(5)-C5H5)2}){(eta(1):eta(6)-RC6H4)Cr(CO)3}2] (R = H (6), p-CH3 (7), and gold, [Au(PPh3)(mu-eta(1):eta(6)-RC6H...

The complexes [Cr{η6-C6H4XLi}(CO)3] (X = H (a), F (b)) react with [Mn(CO)5Br] to produce novel heterobimetallic compounds with bridging σ,π-benzoyl ligands, (η6-{(CO)5Mn}C(P)C6H 4X)Cr(CO)3 (1). When the reaction was executed in the presence of P(OMe)3, complexes with a bridging benzoyl, (η6-{(CO)4(P-(OMe)3)Mn}C(O)C 6H5)Cr(CO)3 (1c (higher yield)),...

New heterobimetallic and trimetallic complexes of titanium, [Ti(η5-C5H5) 2(Cl)(μ-η1:η6-RC6H 4) Cr(CO)3] (R = H (1), o-F (2), p-CH3 (3), m-CH3 (4), [Ti(η5-C5H5) 2(Cl)(μ-η1:η6-C6Me 5CH2)Cr(CO)3] (5), and [(μ-{Ti(η5-C5H5) 2}){(η1:η6-RC6H 4)Cr(CO)3}2] (R = H (6), p-CH3 (7)), and gold, [Au(PPh3)(μ-η1:η6-RC6H 4)Cr(CO)3] (R = H (9), o-F (10)), were prepar...

This paper reports on the synthesis and characterization of three classes of π-arene complexes of manganese with sulfur-donor ligands. The preparation of neutral mononuclear and cationic dimeric η6-arene complexes of manganese with benzenethiolate, as well as cationic benzenethiol and thioether complexes, is described. The crystal structure of (η6-...

The Me3N generated in the carbonyl labilising reaction of Me3NO with [Mn(η6-C6R6)(CO)3]PF6(R = H, Me) deprotonates the subsequently co-ordinated thiophenol affording the novel neutral complexes [Mn(η6-C6R6)(CO)2SPh].

A carbonyl ligand of π-arenetricarbonylchromiun(0) complexes is photochemically displaced to give π-arenedicarbonyl complexes of chromium(0) with thio-ether ligands. In contrast, irradiation of π-arenetricarbonylchromium compounds with dithio-ester and trithiocarbonate ligands yields only pentacarbonyl complexes. Substitution of the π-arene ring, t...

The π-arene complexes π-benzenedicarbonyl-1,3-dithianechromium(0) and π-methylbenzoatedicarbonyl-1,3-dithianechromium(0) were studied by single crystal X-ray diffraction. These complexes have different conformations with the Cr(CO)2[H2] fragment in a near eclipsed orientation relative to the planar η6-methylbenzoate ligand and in a staggered orient...

The nature and role of entrepreneurship in for-profit companies is fairly well-established. Empirically, the firm’s entrepreneurial orientation (EO) has been associated with various measures of performance, as well as with a number of antecedent variables. In addition, evidence exists of a relationship between EO and the market orientation (MO) of...

Summary in English and Afrikaans. Thesis (DSc)-Universiteit van Pretoria, 1990.