Abstract
The current study presents the review on entrepreneurial leadership since year 1980. Concept of entrepreneurial leadership, and its development so far were captured. Drawing on the comprehensive literature review of 50 studies, we have presented the measures used in the prior literature to capture the main construct of entrepreneurial leadership. Dimensions such as strategic factors, communicative factors, personal factors, motivational factors and leadership behaviors contribute to form entrepreneurial leadership. Various antecedents of entrepreneurial leadership such as human capital, social capital, entrepreneurial mindset, ambidexterity, and uncertainty absorbing, challenge framing, clearing path, commitment building and limits specification were identified. Outcomes such as wealth creation, strategic management of resources, innovation performance, startup performance and creativity were also identified. The possible traits of entrepreneurial leaders such as performance oriented, ambitious, informed, extra insight visionary foresight, confidence builder, diplomatic, effective bargainer, convincing, encourage, inspirational, enthusiastic, team builder, improvement-oriented, integrator, intellectual stimulation and positive attitudes are found.
Highlights
The term entrepreneur originates due to emergence of new business or startups
Innovation is a vital function of entrepreneurial leadership whether the business is existing, early growth or public service institutions (Durker, 2015)
The objective of the present study is to examining the literature on entrepreneurial leadership, identifying measures to capture the construct of entrepreneurial leadership and the related construct, describing the precursors, outcomes and moderators of an entrepreneurial leaders
Summary
Entrepreneur is defined as individual who has started a novel firm or company (Cunningham & Lischeron, 1991). Entrepreneurs are considered to be a great person as they are always active in presenting notion or novel ideas. Their novel ideas let other find engrossment with their new beliefs. Cunningham & Lischeron (1991) have presented schools of thought on entrepreneurship. Having the ability to innovate and creative mind mold their entrepreneurial behavior for early growth business and start-up. They are considered to be good at planning, capitalizing, organizing people and preparing budgets. In line with leadership school of thought, having the ability to motivate, direct and lead, makes them leaders of humankind
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