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Creativity and Entrepreneurial Performance

A General Scientific Theory

Authors:

  1. W. Edward McMullan

    1. University of Calgary, Haskayne School of Business, Calgary, Canada

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  2. Thomas P. Kenworthy

    1. Management & Marketing Department, University of Dayton School of Business Administration, Dayton, USA

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  • Develops a new and more accurate scientific theory of entrepreneurial performance based in entrepreneurial creativity
  • Builds on pre-existing, established theory from Economics/Entrepreneurship (Schumpeter) and Psychology/Creativity (Sternberg & Lubart)
  • Reviews related empirical research and provides a predictive model of entrepreneurial outcomes
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Exploring Diversity in Entrepreneurship (EDE)

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
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  2. Introduction

    • W. Edward McMullan, Thomas P. Kenworthy
    Pages 1-14

  3. Understanding Entrepreneurial Problems

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 15-15
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    2. Entrepreneurial Work Experience

      • W. Edward McMullan, Thomas P. Kenworthy
      Pages 17-24

  4. Major Entrepreneurial Paradigms

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 25-25
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    2. Small Business Entrepreneurship: Is a Caterpillar a Butterfly?

      • W. Edward McMullan, Thomas P. Kenworthy
      Pages 27-42

    3. The Positivistic Social Science of Entrepreneurship

      • W. Edward McMullan, Thomas P. Kenworthy
      Pages 43-54

  5. A General Scientific Theory of Entrepreneurial Creativity

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 55-55
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    2. Modernizing Schumpeter: Toward a New General Theory of Entrepreneurship

      • W. Edward McMullan, Thomas P. Kenworthy
      Pages 57-72

    3. The Core Evidence

      • W. Edward McMullan, Thomas P. Kenworthy
      Pages 73-98

    4. A General Theory and Its Explanatory Power

      • W. Edward McMullan, Thomas P. Kenworthy
      Pages 99-111

  6. Auxiliary Theories

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 113-113
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    2. Entrepreneurial Creativity

      • W. Edward McMullan, Thomas P. Kenworthy
      Pages 115-135

    3. Entrepreneurial Dynamics

      • W. Edward McMullan, Thomas P. Kenworthy
      Pages 137-148

    4. Developing Entrepreneurial Creativity

      • W. Edward McMullan, Thomas P. Kenworthy
      Pages 149-154

    5. Towards a Macro Theory of Entrepreneurial Creativity

      • W. Edward McMullan, Thomas P. Kenworthy
      Pages 155-163

    6. Some Implications and Conclusions

      • W. Edward McMullan, Thomas P. Kenworthy
      Pages 165-178

  7. Back Matter

    Pages 179-207
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About this book

The essential problem in entrepreneurship is improving the performance of entrepreneurs. The most important theories will be the ones that most enable us to predict and then ultimately influence entrepreneurial performance. This book develops a new and more accurate theory of entrepreneurial performance based in entrepreneurial creativity. The field of entrepreneurship has a long tradition of expecting entrepreneurial performance to be influenced by creativity, tracing back even before the pioneering work of Joseph Schumpeter (1883 to 1950), who defined entrepreneurship as creative-destruction—creating the new by supplanting or destroying the old. Subsequently, psychologist Robert Sternberg defined creativity as broadly encompassing creative aspects of personality, motivation, intellect, thinking style and relevant knowledge. Using Sternberg’s definition of creativity, the authors reviewed the evidence directly linking entrepreneurial creativity and entrepreneurial performance, concluding that the linkage is both statistically and practically significant. In order to scientifically tie entrepreneurship to creativity the book pursues a number of major objectives: In parts one and two, the authors remind us of our scientific challenge in the light of the depressing levels of performance typically to be found in the real world of entrepreneurship and explores the limitations of the dominant paradigms driving research in the field of entrepreneurship today. In part three, they bring together existing evidence to demonstrate the predictive and explanatory powers of creativity in relation to entrepreneurship. In part four, they further explore correlations between creativity and entrepreneurial performance at the individual and macro or society, levels. In summary, the book offers a bold predictive theory linking entrepreneurial creativity to entrepreneurial performance, however neither as boldly as a definitional linkage nor as timidly as one in a hundred or sofactors potentially explaining entrepreneurial performance. This result is a general scientific theory that offers a serious challenge to entrepreneurial scholars who are pursuing other means for understanding the causality of entrepreneurial performance.
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Authors and Affiliations

  • University of Calgary, Haskayne School of Business, Calgary, Canada

    W. Edward McMullan

  • Management & Marketing Department, University of Dayton School of Business Administration, Dayton, USA

    Thomas P. Kenworthy

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Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Creativity and Entrepreneurial Performance

  • Book Subtitle: A General Scientific Theory

  • Authors: W. Edward McMullan, Thomas P. Kenworthy

  • Series Title: Exploring Diversity in Entrepreneurship

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-04726-3

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Business and Economics, Business and Management (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2015

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-04725-6Published: 05 November 2014

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-35598-6Published: 22 September 2016

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-04726-3Published: 18 October 2014

  • Series ISSN: 2567-7357

  • Series E-ISSN: 2567-7659

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIV, 207

  • Number of Illustrations: 7 b/w illustrations, 5 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Entrepreneurship, Organization, Business Strategy/Leadership, Industrial and Organizational Psychology

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