The Entrepreneurial Imperatives of Strategic Leadership

Abstract

The phenomenon of leadership has been the focus of systematic social science research since the early 1930s. However, it wasn't until approximately the mid-1980s that social scientists began to widely recognize the distinctive-ness and significance of that portion of the leadership domain known today as strategic leadership, defined by Hitt, Ireland, and Hoskisson (2001: 489) as “the ability to anticipate, envision, maintain flexibility, and empower others to create strategic change as necessary.” It's not that the “new” phenomenon of strategic leadership emerged in the mid-1980s. Rather, the unique domain of strategic leadership started to clarify during this time period. Specific ways in which general managers must be leaders, not simply administrators, were increasingly recognized and debated.

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