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## Meet the editor

Mladen Turuk, Ph.D., is currently an Assistant Professor at the University of Zagreb, Croatia. He earned his postgraduate specialist degree in Strategic Entrepreneurship in 2009 and his Ph.D. in Business Economics in 2016. He has authored or co-authored over 20 scientific papers, has acted as a reviewer, and has been engaged as a visiting professor at Macquarie University of Sydney, Shanghai University of International Business

and Economics, and the University of Johannesburg. He has participated in several domestic and international projects. In addition to his academic career, he has more than ten years of experience in the industrial sector and is active in civil society organizations. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Contemporary Business and Entrepreneurship and the President of The Entrepreneurship Club.

Contents

**Section 1**

*by Ribin Seo*

**Section 2**

Opportunities

*by Alexander Tabares*

Alliance Perspective

*by Herring Shava*

of Impact Entrepreneurship

*by Felipe Baeta and Tales Andreassi*

to the Pursuit of International Opportunities

*by Moha Asri Abdullah and Md. Siddique E Azam*

**Preface XI**

Entrepreneurial Strategy **1**

**Chapter 1 3**

**Chapter 2 23**

**Chapter 3 39**

**Chapter 4 53**

Entrepreneurial Education and Opportunities **77**

**Chapter 5 79**

**Chapter 6 91**

**Chapter 7 113**

The Role of Prior Knowledge in the Process of Recognizing Entrepreneurial

International Entrepreneurship: An Entrepreneurial Behavior Oriented

Halal Entrepreneurship: Concept and Business Opportunities

Collaborative Entrepreneurship for Continuous Innovation: A Strategic

Domination of Value Creation Networking and Closeness to the Market Dimensions on Entrepreneurial Marketing Behavior: An Analysis from the

Measuring a Blended Performance: Managerial Insights from the Field

Perspective of Start-Up Companies and Scale-Up Companies

Business Harvesting Strategies for Entrepreneurs

*by Christina Whidya Utami and Hendro Susanto*

*by Irene Bengo, Veronica Chiodo and Valentina Tosi*

## Contents



Preface

Entrepreneurship plays an important role in the development of economies and is a vital source of change in all aspects of society. Throughout history, successful entrepreneurs have created great businesses and contributed to economic and social development, created jobs, increased productivity, and contributed to a higher quality of life. This book attempts to address a number of contemporary entrepreneurship issues critical for understanding entrepreneurship and business

While this book empowers academics interested in entrepreneurial research, it is not only for them. Any student who reads this book will learn about the entrepreneurial process, the role of entrepreneurship in the economy, and its contemporary issues. This book also encourages would-be entrepreneurs to start

The book consists of 12 chapters systematically organized into 4 sections: "Entrepreneurial Strategy", "Entrepreneurial Education and Opportunities", "Entrepreneurial Finance" and "Entrepreneurial Dynamics, and Innovation".

Chapter 1 explains how strategic alliances act as a platform to implement collaborative entrepreneurship while exposing a range of challenges. The objective of the chapter is to explore how to deal with the potential coordination issues that can make an alliance vulnerable and its returns diminished through a preliminary integrative approach to the interface between collaborative entrepreneurship and strategic alliances. The chapter contributes to a better understanding of how firms can enact collaborative entrepreneurship productively to gain greater benefit from the alliance configuration

Business harvesting strategies are examined in Chapter 2. Entity harvesting is as equally important as setting up a new entrepreneurial venture and this chapter explores this issue. During the harvesting process, the entrepreneur recovers value through the sale of an entrepreneurial entity or its assets. Having spent several years building and adding value to the business, the entrepreneur must design an entity harvesting strategy that would provide maximum returns on the investment of time, effort, and money. Several reasons may compel the entrepreneur to harvest the business and this chapter provides some of these reasons based on extant literature and primary data collected from small and medium-sized entity (SME) owners in Sub-Saharan Africa. Further, the chapter outlines various entity harvesting strategies preferred by SME owners in Sub-Saharan Africa and

The entrepreneurial marketing behavior of start-up and scale-up companies and their dominant dimensions are the focus of Chapter 3. The results of the study suggest that there is no difference in entrepreneurial marketing behavior between start-up companies and scale-up companies. Value creation networking is shown to be the most dominant dimension for start-up companies in terms of its impact on

What follows is a brief synopsis of what each chapter entails.

circumstances in which they deem appropriate to apply such.

creation.

and grow their new ventures.

for collaborative advantage.
