Strategy is not what it used to be. To compete effectively, large businesses must respond quickly, creatively and innovatively to develop an entrepreneurial environment to assist this response. Strategic leadership is crucial to develop the organizational environment needed to increase the entrepreneurial orientation in established businesses. The purpose of this paper is to determine if the sa...

Entrepreneurial orientation (EO) can generate substantial gains and losses, exhausting firm resources straining a firm’s ability to sustain its activities. We develop test resource exhaustion theory of failure, conceptualizing conditions under which EO increases the risk failure by generating unsustainable amounts entrepreneurial entropy. Using panel data on 804 large U.S. high-technology firms...

The interplay between strategic orientations has received limited attention in manufacturing small and medium enterprises (SMEs).The existing studies have repeatedly called for investigating the impacts of multiple on organizational performance. Moreover, prior research disintegrating orientation assessing their effects Thus, this study is first its nature – market (MO) construct using data fro...