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The Foundations of Entrepreneurship

The Foundations of Entrepreneurship. Sergey Anokhin, Ph.D. Kent State University January 12, 2009. Presentation highlights. Introduction Definitions of entrepreneurship Entrepreneurial revolution Leadership vs. Management vs. Entrepreneurship Pros & Cons of Entrepreneurship

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The Foundations of Entrepreneurship

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  1. The Foundations of Entrepreneurship Sergey Anokhin, Ph.D. Kent State University January 12, 2009

  2. Presentation highlights • Introduction • Definitions of entrepreneurship • Entrepreneurial revolution • Leadership vs. Management vs. Entrepreneurship • Pros & Cons of Entrepreneurship • Ethics and leadership • Q&A

  3. How much would it be worth today (picture taken in 1997)?

  4. Elements of entrepreneurship • Opening example: Bill Gates, Michael Dell, Sergey Brin • Innovative opportunity • Growing industry • Individual characteristics • Individual-opportunity nexus • New venture creation • Risks

  5. Opportunities • Opportunities are associated with changes in the external environment: • Political/legal • Economic • Socio-cultural • Demographic • Technological (innovative) • Importance of industry

  6. Understanding innovation • New product or service • New way of organizing • New market • New method of production • New raw material

  7. Towards the definition • Entrepreneurship is about: • Individuals exploiting new value-creating opportunities via various means to produce a wide range of effects • Baron-Shane definitional exercise

  8. What entrepreneurship is not • Being small does not make you entrepreneurial automatically • Being a young company is not necessarily entrepreneurship • Being a business owner does not by itself make you an entrepreneur

  9. Types of entrepreneurial ventures • Hisrich’s classification: • Lifestyle: 30-40 employees, $2M sales • Foundational: 40-400 employees, $10-20M sales • High potential (gazelles): about 500 employees, $20-30M sales

  10. Why people do it? • Money • Lifestyle • Independence • Necessity

  11. Do people get what they want? • Money: entrepreneurship vs. corporate career • Lifestyle: working hours, family responsibilities • Independence: employers vs. employees • Net balance: drive

  12. What kind of people do it? • Independence/Need for achievement • Locus of control • Risk-taking • Tolerance for ambiguity • Focus: promotion, prevention • Skills: technical, business management, personal entrepreneurial skills

  13. Exercise • How good are your ideas about entrepreneurship? Hisrich, p. 30-31, explanation p. 32, 34 • Do you have what it takes to become an entrepreneur? Hisrich, p. 33, explanation p. 32 • Test yourself: locus of control, independence, risk taking. Hisrich, p. 66-69.

  14. Entrepreneurial revolution (Babson) • New management paradigm • Flat, fast, flexible, innovation-driven • Principle- and value-based management • Opportunity- and customer-focused • Resource parsimonious (which eliminated loyalty) • Living with and managing chaos/change • People- and team-centered management • New education paradigm • Not-for-profit world • Beyond business schools

  15. Leadership, management, entrepreneurship • Leadership is essential for both management (top management) and entrepreneurship (founder team): • Determining strategic direction • Establishing organizational control • Effectively managing resource portfolio • Sustaining an effective organizational culture • Emphasizing ethical practices • Leadership and followership • Unique question for entrepreneurial firms: leadership succession

  16. Management vs. entrepreneurship • Entrepreneurship: exploration and growth • Management: optimizing, exploitation, and efficiency • Dimensions on which they differ: • Strategic orientation • Commitment to opportunity • Commitment of resources • Control of resources • Management structure • Management begins where entrepreneurship ends: stages of evolution

  17. Managers, entrepreneurs, intrapreneurs • Important dimensions • Primary motives • Time orientation • Activity • Risk • Status • Failure and mistakes • Decisions • Who serves • Family history • Relationship with others

  18. Pros and Cons of Entrepreneurship • Pros • Job creation • Creative destruction (radical innovation) – 95% are introduced by new firms • Entrepreneurship and economic development • May become a billionaire, own boss • Cons • Risk (failure; culture specific) • Emotional toll • “Chronically entrepreneurial” industries: scale argument • Ethical considerations

  19. Entrepreneurship and Ethics • There are a number of specific ethical issues facing small companies • Entrepreneurs routinely report having to make decisions based on their judgment of what’s right and wrong. Disturbing statistics.

  20. Questions?

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