Prospecting for Strategic Advantage: The Proactive Entrepreneurial Personality and Small Firm Innovation

By Jill R. Kickul, Lisa K. Gundry. 2002

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Subfields: Management of Technology and Innovation, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management

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Psychological Resilience and Its Downstream Effects for Business Survival in Nascent Entrepreneurship (2018, background): “For example, Kickul and Gundry (2002) found that small business owners who were more proactive were more likely to have a strategic orientation for their firms that enabled them to be more innovative and flexible in the face of changing conditions.”
CEO humility, narcissism and firm innovation: A paradox perspective on CEO traits ☆ ☆☆ ★ (2017, background): “Perhaps the driving force is proactive personality (Kickul & Gundry, 2002), overconfidence (Galasso & Simcoe, 2011), quest for gaining future attention (Yadav, Prabhu, & Chandy, 2007), or self-directive values (Berson, Oreg, & Dvir, 2008).”
The Impact of Environmental Turbulence on the Perceived Importance of Innovation and Innovativeness in SMEs (2019, background): “Kickul and Gundry (2002) also found that a prospector strategy (the importance of innovation is high in firms with this type of strategy) mediates the relationship between a proactive enterpreneurial orientation and innovation in small firms.”
The Uncertainty of Innovation: A Systematic Review of the Literature (2011, background): “…case study 5 Jun & Weare (2010) To examine the institutional motivations underlying innovation Institutional motivations; innovation dissemination Survey 4 Kickul & Gundry (2002) To propose and test an entrepreneurial process model that examines the Entrepreneurship ; strategic orientation; Survey…”
Intervening to Enhance Proactivity in Organizations: Improving the Present or Changing the Future (2018, background): “A proactive approach towards work has been linked to many positive outcomes (for meta-analyses, see Fuller & Marler, 2009; Thomas, Whitman, & Viswesvaran, 2010), including job performance (Thompson, 2005) and innovation (Kickul & Gundy, 2002).”
An entrepreneurial cognition perspective on the internationalization of SMEs (2006, result): “Another study found a significant relationship between proactive disposition of small business owners and the level of innovation of their implemented strategies ( Kickul and Gundry, 2002 ), providing further support for the proactive/entrepreneurship relationship.”
Opportunity recognition and product innovation in entrepreneurial hi-tech start-ups: a new perspective and supporting case study (2005, background): “Kickul and Gundry (2002 ) demonstrate how a proactive entrepreneurial personality can precipitate a number of Schumpeterian innovations (new markets, products or organisational systems) as a result of their involvement in the firm.”
Fostering Entrepreneurial Drive in Business Education: An Attitudinal Approach (2007, background): “Another study found a significant relationship between proactive disposition of small business owners and the level of innovation of their implemented strategies (Kickul & Gundry, 2002), providing further support for the proactive-entrepreneurship relationship.”
The role of intuition and improvisation in project management (2006, methodology): “In order to test the mediated model of the type that we outlined earlier, we used the definitive guidelines developed by Baron and Kenny [47] which have been widely applied [48].”
Modeling the antecedents of proactive behavior at work. (2006, background): “Proactivity in the Workplace Proactive concepts have been operationalized at the individual level (e.g., Ashford & Tsui, 1991), team level (e.g., Simard & Marchand, 1995), and organizational level (e.g., Kickul & Gundry, 2002).”
Entrepreneurial leadership practices and school innovativeness (2014, background): “Proactiveness highly influences entrepreneurial leaders’ creativity, opportunity recognition ability, desire and intention to initiate entrepreneurial activities and perseverance in achieving their visions (Zampetakis, 2008; Kuratko et al., 2007; Kickul & Gundry, 2002).”
The relationship between high performance work systems and employee proactive behaviour: role breadth self-efficacy and flexible role orientation as mediating mechanisms (2017, background): “They are also beneficial for organisational innovation and success (e.g. Kickul and Gundry, 2002), since they induce individuals to study their environments thoroughly and help them to anticipate potential problems (Thomas et al., 2010).”