Entrepreneurial Leadership in the Micro and Small Enterprises (MSES) Research Context: A Literature Review

Suraiya  Ishak; Ahmad Raflis  Che Omar; Azima  Abd. Manaf

The review aims to provide an understanding of the recent concepts in leadership for managing turbulent and dynamic business contexts. The objective of this paper is to disseminate a rigorous understanding of the Entrepreneurial Leadership (EL) concept through a narrative literature review covering definitions, dimensions and trends of recent studies on the topic. The effort expected to encourage more studies on EL and organizational performance within the specific context of the Micro and Small Enterprises (MSEs) in developing countries. The discussion uses the narrative or traditional type of literature review. Based on the review, EL is a stimulative type of leadership that inspires towards an entrepreneurial orientation behaviours throughout an entire organization. Entrepreneurial leaders are individuals who, through an understanding of themselves and the contexts in which they work, act on and shape opportunities that create value for their organizations, their stakeholders and the wider society. The EL field is still evolving and there are many areas for future researchers to engage in studying the effects of EL. Currently, research trends on EL can be segregated into two stages. The current trend is now focusing on the 2nd stage involving empirical studies on the process model related to the effects of EL on small business performance. This study contributes to the existing literature on Entrepreneurial Leadership (EL) that is essential to sustain and re-develop micro and small businesses.

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