Developing entrepreneurial competencies through dilemma reconciliation
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2009
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Seet, Pi-Shen
Ahmad, Nazir
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International perspectives on competence in the workplace: Implications for research, policy and practice / Christine R. Velde (ed.), Ch.8 pp.139-157
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Pi-Shen Seet and Noor Hazlina Ahmad
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Dilemmas or paradoxes are increasingly being investigated in management research. Lewis (2000) attributes this intensification to increasing technological change, global competition, and workforce diversity. Business leaders, for example, are asked to increase efficiency and foster creativity, build individualistic teams, and think globally while acting locally. The intensification has led to some claiming that ‘It’s a paradox,’ and is rapidly becoming the management cliché of our time – overused and underspecified (Handy 1994).
The entrepreneurial process has been recognised to be an untidy, non-linear, inconsistent, and unpredictable one and also paradoxical in nature (Ropo and Hunt 1995; Prenkert 2002). These processes may be complex and diverse and even chaotic and confounding (Timmons 1989). However, there is little research on dilemmas or paradoxes in entrepreneurship, and this chapter attempts to address this shortcoming by mapping some of the paradoxical or dilemma-like patterns in the entrepreneurial process as entrepreneurs seek to create predictability and value out of the ambiguity, chaos, and uncertainty.
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© Springer Science + Business Media B.V. 2009