Abstract
The main aim of this study was to clarify the current literary inconsistencies regarding the characteristics of entrepreneurial leadership and its impact on sustainability. Additionally, another aim was to establish the framework of entrepreneurial leadership and to highlight the main gaps in the entrepreneurial leadership literature. The entrepreneurial leadership literature started to develop recently as a new leadership style that is required to fulfill the current business changes in the fourth industrial revolution. The researchers conducted a narrative literature review to assess the status of entrepreneurial leadership in academia, literature gaps, and the impact of entrepreneurial leadership on the sustainability performance of organizations. Furthermore, the researchers main aim was to investigate the following research question: is entrepreneurial leadership a fixed or a multidimensional concept that differs based on industry, context, and firm size? Regarding the answer to this question, the current study found that entrepreneurial leadership is a multidimensional concept as it is reflected in different perspectives, which indicates the inconsistency of the characteristics of entrepreneurial leadership claimed in the literature. Research limitations—the current study focused on assessing the literature review status of entrepreneurial leadership. Based on that, this study’s limitation is represented in not focusing on testing entrepreneurial leadership’s impact on sustainability either quantitatively or qualitatively. On the contrary, it contributed by analyzing the status of the entrepreneurial leadership literature. Future studies need to further assess this relationship between both concepts and reach an agreement about the common characteristics of entrepreneurial leadership. Originality/value—the current study contributes to the entrepreneurial leadership literature as it highlighted the existing gaps and the inconsistency in the literature. Additionally, it contributed theoretically by connecting entrepreneurial leadership to the existing literature. Furthermore, empirically, it highlighted the contribution of entrepreneurial leadership by emphasizing the impact of it on organizational sustainable development performance. This study represents a call for scholars to focus more on entrepreneurial leadership given its contribution to organizational performance.
Highlights
The world is transforming rapidly, and everything starting from products, technologies, and economies are developing
Entrepreneurial leadership is a mix between entrepreneurship traits and leadership characteristics and has become one of the emerging concepts in the business literature
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Summary
The world is transforming rapidly, and everything starting from products, technologies, and economies are developing. Business managers who have leadership traits or entrepreneurship traits only 4.0/). Sustainability 2021, 13, 11695 are not sufficient to compete in the current business context [1]. In other words, having entrepreneurship characteristics or leadership characteristics only is not sufficient for managers to achieve firms’ development and sustainability goals and strategies. Scholars [2] declared that the effect of the global entrepreneurial revolution is stronger than the industrial revolution’s impact. They considers entrepreneurial leadership a crucial factor in the current global economy. Entrepreneurial leadership is a mix between entrepreneurship traits and leadership characteristics and has become one of the emerging concepts in the business literature
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