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A Review of Small Contractor Sustainable Growth: Implication for Entrepreneurial Leadership Approach

Luviwe Bikitsha, David Root, Xolani Nghona,
Published in
2010
   
Issue: 2007
Pages: 626 - 632
Abstract
Small contractors remain unsustainable despite the initiatives to enhance their development. This paper attempts to identify the gap betweenentrepreneurial leadership approachandsustainable growthof small contractors. This study focuses only on the literature and identifies the relationship between the sustainable growth and entrepreneurial leadership. In detail, the reviewprovidesthe information about the challenges facedby the small contractors to retain their growth. The literature showed that there is a relationship between the entrepreneurial leadership and the growth of small contractors.Findings further indicated that innovation was essential for growth of an organisation.The study also revealed that there exist a positive relationship between innovation andtransformational leadership.Further, the past research showed that other factors such as calculated risk taking and pro-activeness apart from the innovation of an entrepreneur will enable the small business to be sustainable in the market.The findings uncovered the advantages of transformation leadership style and entrepreneurial capabilityto sustain the growth of small contractors
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