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Entrepreneurial Project Management. Developing and Testing the Concept

2012

In this Master's thesis the knowledge and theory of entrepreneurship is applied to the project management discipline. As a result, a wide range of the entrepreneurship literature is reviewed and the concept of entrepreneurial project management (EPM) is developed. The concept consist of three interrelated parts: (1) the antecedents of EPM, (2) the elements of EPM and (3) the outcomes of EPM. The research part of the dissertation analyses the relation between the antecendents and the elements of EPM. The former is modelled along the four project type dimensions: (1) novelty, (2) technology, (3) pace and (4) complexity of scope. The latter consists of three elements: (1) entrepreneurial project governance, (2) entrepreneurial project management architecture and (3) entrepreneurial project processes and behaviour. It is hypothesized that the proclivity towards EPM is stronger when the novelty, technology and pace is higher and the complexity of scope is lower. The research results revealed that the novelty and pace factors have a small effect on the proclivity towards EPM. It is conlcuded that technology is potentialy the determining factor when embracing EPM. The effects of the complexity factor provided results that were consistently against the hypothesized entrepreneurial direction, which was subsequently reversed. The results of this dissertation research are by no means generalized and apply only to the obtained sample of 83 responses by project managers to the online questionnaire.

Entrepreneurship and project management relationships

International Journal of Managing Projects in Business, 2018

Purpose Both project investments and entrepreneurial ventures are considered powerful catalysts of economic prosperity and social progress. But these ventures and investments come with their inherent challenges and risks. Observing this situation, academics have paid close attention to the fields of entrepreneurship and project management (E&PM). Thus, for over 30 years, the two fields have witnessed remarkable developments among management and organization studies. The historical perspective reveals that these two multidisciplinary fields were built in parallel, on very distinct mindsets and cultures. The purpose of this paper is to offer a wider dialogic conversation between two distinct perspectives and related propositions: E&PM should stay separated; and E&PM should converge. Design/methodology/approach In order to guide the investigation of these propositions, the authors call for Luhmann and a systemic-discursive perspective of both fields discourses. Ultimately, the purpose ...

Entrepreneurship in search of its foundations

in the fields of social science, economics, sociology or management are incomplete to understand and analyze the essence, aims and functions of entrepreneurship ; they tend to focus on one facet of entrepreneurial behaviour with regard to their predominant concern : for the economists : market and equilibrium, social production of the entrepreneur, profitable development of the activity ; for the sociologists, the influence of social norms, cultural values and structures. Collectively, however, much progress has been made. Our position, in this article, is that the problem of entrepreneurship is part of a broader theory of the firm, based on an epistemology of collective action (Hatchuel, 2005). According to Hatchuel, in this general theory of collective action, the foundation stone of what an enterprise really is, should be the major issue and result of management sciences, and not of sociology or economics which deal with restricted interpretations of collective action. In this perspective, a collective action theory requires combining two main dimensions : the design and the regulation of action. In this purpose, we propose to articulate the artificialist perspective defended by Herbert Simon in the 1960s with the Sciences of Design and the regulationist approach or rule-based approach from Jean-Daniel Reynaud in his social regulation theory. Through this position this article searchs to open a dialogue between the social sciences by introducing a Project-Based View (PBV).

Discussion on Promise of Entrepreneurship as a Field of Research

International Journal of Managerial Studies and Research, 2017

The paper aimed to explain the promise of entrepreneurship as a field of research. In entrepreneurship research, there are many disciplines primarily economics, management/business administration, sociology, psychology, economic and cultural anthropology, business history, strategy, marketing, finance, and geography representing a variety of research traditions, perspectives, and methods. The study is divides into four part, conceptual framework, previous study, results and recommendations. The study aimed at identifies the reasons why studying entrepreneurship is necessary as a field of research. This paper was examined using research articles, peer-reviewed, journals, books, empirical study, and other credible published materials by professional in the field of entrepreneurial studies, business, and history as well as other related fields. The study explores that field of entrepreneurship is concerned with discovering and exploitation of entrepreneurial opportunities. There are many recommendations such as researchers should give more priority and consider entrepreneurship as a field of research, as this will give them more knowledge on how to discover and exploit entrepreneurial opportunities lying within their country and even abroad.

Interactive entrepreneurship : Studying entrepreneurship as projects, in projects

2002

While the development of mainstream entrepreneurship research has been quite successful in academic terms, the field has adopted some taken-for-granted assumptions and views hampering its further development, e.g. the polarisation between individual voluntarism and institutional determinism, the focus on single individuals, the focus on enterprise start-ups etc. Contrary to that, we propose a social constructionist epistemology in entrepreneurship research, according to which entrepreneurship is collectively organised by individuals in interaction, i.e. as projects. In this paper, two issues connected to the notion of 'interactive entrepreneurship' are discussed; the meaning of innovative social processes and the empirical inquiry on innovative projects. It is concluded by a discussion on how recent developments in project management can be beneficial to entrepreneurship research.