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Future Research Opportunities in the Strategic Leadership-EO Space

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I conclude the book with a discussion of how EO-strategic leadership research theoretically contributes to the EO conversation specifically and the strategic entrepreneurship conversation broadly. I briefly review potential high-impact strategic leadership-EO research questions, then discuss the theoretical foci necessary to shift from descriptive contributions to building predictive theory. I then discuss how a Bayesian approach to modeling empirical strategic leadership-EO research may aid in building predictive theory. I conclude by suggesting guidance for EO researchers to make use of this book in developing new research questions.

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  1. Henry W. Bloch School of Management, University of Missouri–Kansas City, Kansas City, MO, USA

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Anderson, B.S. (2021). Future Research Opportunities in the Strategic Leadership-EO Space. In: Entrepreneurial Orientation and Strategic Leadership. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-87300-4_8

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