Team Entrepreneurship
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Entrepreneurship has typically been described in terms of the drama of venture start ups, leveraged buy-outs, acts of risk and personal vision. Entrepreneurship, however, exists in more forms and in more places than the more dramatic examples would lead us to believe. In this innovative volume, Alex Stewart examines an emerging approach to managing: collective entrepreneurship by employees. Based on research conducted from the inside of a fast-growing firm, Stewart shows that entrepreneurship is both collective, a team-based activity and individual, a leader-made creation. Team Entrepreneurship focuses on the management within a small but highly successful division of an automotive manufacturing firm and considers competitiveness, nonunionization, strategy, labor markets, manufacturing, and organizational politics. The success of collective entrepreneurship is shown to result from a unique approach to both market and organizational challenges--"running hot." Stewart describes how a company can "run hot" by seizing opportunities in serving a difficult market upon which the business must then depend. He first looks at the market and at employees as an internally nurtured team; then, he describes "running hot" in a discussion of work action, management authority, and the transformational capabilities necessary for the company to succeed. Finally, he relates the concept to cross-cultural studies of entrepreneurship. Although not a unique concept, team entrepreneurship is an important development for understanding entrepreneurial activities by employees in profit-seeking firms. Accessible and comprehensive, Team Entrepreneurship is necessary reading for scholars and professionals in the areas of business and management, as well as anthropology and sociology.
ISBN
9780803934931
Publication Date
1989
Publisher
Sage Publications
City
Newbury Park
Keywords
Entrepreneurship
Disciplines
Business | Entrepreneurial and Small Business Operations | Strategic Management Policy
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Table of Contents
Prologue for Practitioners (and Other Busy People)
PART ONE: SETTING THE STAGE FOR RUNNING HOT
Market Focus
Focused Employees
An Internally Nurtured Team
PART TWO: RUNNING HOT
Growth with Limited Resources
Community with a Mission
The Internal Politics of External Service
Surely They Can't Keep It Up?
Running Right on the Course
A Trip to the `Big Men'
Entrepreneurship Cross-Culturally