Strategic entrepreneurship and dynamicflexibility: Towards an integrativeframework

Strategic entrepreneurship is a growing field within both Entrepreneurship andManagement Science. Dynamic flexibility is a concept originally developed to resolvegeneral business issues (Apter, 1985) and later enhanced to address specific strategicmanagement challenges. Strategic Entrepreneurship deals with a singular strategicmanagement response which is to achieve superior performance via simultaneousopportunity-seeking and advantage-seeking activities (Ireland, Hitt, & Simon, 2003). Theprocess of maintaining superior performance is certainly a longitudinal one and requirescapabilities on both those dimensions (Ireland & Webb, 2007). In this paper, we proposethe use of dynamic flexibility as a useful capability to address strategic entrepreneurshiplongitudinal issue. By exploring the modulation time response model and different otherreferences from both strategic management and strategic entrepreneurship literature, weaim to establish an integrative framework for dynamic strategic entrepreneurship

Keywords:

Strategic Entrepreneurship , Dynamic Flexibility , Change