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The development of entrepreneurship theory states that entrepreneurship as a mindset. Some other literature has even linked strategy management with entrepreneurship into an inseparable construct. One of the equations contained that entrepreneurship related to produce wealth, while strategic management related to the create competitive advantage which ultimately plays an important role in wealth creation. With similarities, talking about entrepreneurial mindset certainly cannot be separated from the strategic mindset itself. Generally, strategic mindset here can be classify into two orientation, artist and scientist. Given that the mindset here is related to way of gathering information or way of thinking, the research here attempts to identify what kind pattern of thinking that can create high entrepreneurial orientation. Research here is more focus about entrepreneurs at the individual level, not in the context of companies or organizations. The final output in this paper is to build proposition and conceptual model abour entrepreneurial artist and scientist to be testing in further research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The optimal distinctiveness perspective argues that firms face competing pressures to be both 'like' and 'different from' their peers. On the one hand, institutional scholars assert that firms need to be similar to peers in order to gain legitimacy. On the other hand, strategy scholars insist that firms need to strive to be different to gain competitive advantage. In order to enrich the optimal distinctiveness perspective, the present study builds a conceptual model that addresses the relationships among organisational regulatory legitimacy, entrepreneurial orientation, and SME innovation under the context of China's transition economy. Our empirical results show that organisational regulatory legitimacy has an inverted-U relationship with SME innovation. Further, entrepreneurial orientation strengthens this inverse-U shaped relationship. That is, entrepreneurial orientation magnifies both the positive and the negative effect of organisational regulatory legitimacy on SME innovation. This study echoes to the call to conduct broader optimal distinctiveness research by integrating institutional theory and strategic management. Furthermore, our findings provide new evidence for the strategic balance perspective of optimal distinctiveness. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The purpose of this research is to develop a conceptual model dealing the relationship between EO and sales growth performance by proposing the Pareto sales network asset as a reliable bridge for mediating EO and sales growth performance in SMEs in Indonesia. Lending the network theory and the Pareto concept, we propose a concept on The Pareto sales network asset as a strategic asset for enhancing sales growth performance. The main finding of this study is that an entrepreneurial oriented firm who success in accessing the Pareto sales network which by nature is outside of the firm will get the networked power. Having, maintaining and using the networked power getting from a Pareto sales network asset will be a key asset for enhancing sales growth performance. The acceptance of the hypotheses on the role of the Pareto sales network asset demonstrated the importance of this strategic asset for SMEs in enhancing performance. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]