Strategic Entrepreneurship

• This volume describes a new concept – strategic entrepreneurship – which fuses the insights of entrepreneurship and strategic management.

• The editors have invited the world's finest entrepreneurship and strategic management scholars to contribute chapters on key issues that are influencing research in both fields, and to integrate findings across the two.

• Investigates the overlap between entrepreneurship and strategic management in the context of six distinct domains: resources and organizational learning, innovation, alliances and networks, internationalization, strategic leadership, and growth.

• The contributors use both traditional and new theoretical approaches in order to further the reader's understanding of wealth creation in the current business environment.

This volume describes a new concept – strategic entrepreneurship – which fuses the insights of entrepreneurship and strategic management. The editors believe that in the competitive landscape of the new millennium, those who wish to succeed will have to combine opportunity-seeking and advantage-seeking behaviors. To illustrate this mindset, they have invited the world's finest entrepreneurship and strategic management scholars to contribute chapters on key issues that are influencing research in both fields, and to integrate findings across the two.

The collection investigates the overlap between entrepreneurship and strategic management in the context of six distinct domains: resources and organizational learning, innovation, alliances and networks, internationalization, strategic leadership, and growth. Within this framework, the contributors use both traditional and new theoretical approaches in order to further the reader's understanding of wealth creation in the current business environment. What emerges is an exciting new perspective that will shape future research and managerial practice.

Michael A. Hitt is a Distinguished Professor and holds the Joseph Foster Chair in Business Leadership and the C.W. and Dorothy Conn Chair in New Ventures at Texas A&M University. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Colorado. Recently, he has co-authored Mergers and Acquisitions: A Guide to Creating Value for Stakeholders (2001) and Strategic Management: Competitiveness and Globalization (Fourth Edition, 2001). He is also the co-editor of many volumes, including The Handbook of Strategic Management (Blackwell Publishers, 2001) and Creating Value (Blackwell Publishers, 2002). He is a Past President of the Academy of Management and has served as Editor of the Academy of Management Journal.

R. Duane Ireland is W. David Robbins Chair in Business Policy and Professor of Management Systems at the E. Claiborne Robins School of Business, University of Richmond. He has recently co-authored Strategic Management: Competitiveness and Globalization (Fourth Edition, 2001) and Mergers and Acquisitions: A Guide to Creating Value for Stakeholders (2001). He is serving or has served as a member of the editorial review board for Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Academy of Management Executive, and Journal of Management.

S. Michael Camp is Vice President of Research at the Kauffman Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership in Kansas City. He designs and administers the Center's research program in collaboration with many of the world's leading scholars.

Donald L. Sexton retired as Professor Emeritus from the Ohio State University in 1994. While at Ohio State University he held the William H. Davis Chair in Entrepreneurship. He is the co-author or co-editor of numerous publications including Leadership and Entrepreneurship (1996), Entrepreneurship 2000 (1997), and The Blackwell Handbook of Enterpreneurship (Blackwell Publishers, 2000).