Overview
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W. Edward McMullan
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University of Calgary, Haskayne School of Business, Calgary, Canada
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Thomas P. Kenworthy
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Management & Marketing Department, University of Dayton School of Business Administration, Dayton, USA
- Develops a new and more accurate scientific theory of entrepreneurial performance based in entrepreneurial creativity
- Builds on pre-existing, established theory from Economics/Entrepreneurship (Schumpeter) and Psychology/Creativity (Sternberg & Lubart)
- Reviews related empirical research and provides a predictive model of entrepreneurial outcomes
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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- W. Edward McMullan, Thomas P. Kenworthy
Pages 1-14
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Understanding Entrepreneurial Problems
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Pages 17-24
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Major Entrepreneurial Paradigms
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Pages 27-42
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Pages 43-54
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A General Scientific Theory of Entrepreneurial Creativity
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Pages 57-72
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Pages 73-98
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Pages 99-111
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Auxiliary Theories
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Front Matter
Pages 113-113
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- W. Edward McMullan, Thomas P. Kenworthy
Pages 115-135
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- W. Edward McMullan, Thomas P. Kenworthy
Pages 137-148
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- W. Edward McMullan, Thomas P. Kenworthy
Pages 149-154
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- W. Edward McMullan, Thomas P. Kenworthy
Pages 155-163
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- W. Edward McMullan, Thomas P. Kenworthy
Pages 165-178
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Back Matter
Pages 179-207
About this book
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 linking entrepreneurial creativity to entrepreneurial performance, however neither as boldly as a definitional linkage nor as timidly as one in a hundred or sofactors potentially explaining entrepreneurial performance. This result is a general scientific theory that offers a serious challenge to entrepreneurial scholars who are pursuing other means for understanding the causality of entrepreneurial performance.
Authors and Affiliations
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University of Calgary, Haskayne School of Business, Calgary, Canada
W. Edward McMullan
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Management & Marketing Department, University of Dayton School of Business Administration, Dayton, USA
Thomas P. Kenworthy