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The entrepreneurship power house of ambition and innovation: exploring German wineries

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  • Marc Dressler

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Increasing competition, globalisation, and supplier concentration - hence changes in the external business environment - stress small entrepreneurs. Indeed, survival is not for granted. In the investigated German wine industry, the number of producers was cut in half since 1980. Resilience, meaning the ability to cope with environmental changes, obviously is a necessary precondition for sustainable success. Survey data of German wineries serve to explore strategic entrepreneurship and the impact on resilience or eventual sustainable growth in a crowding out market. The study explores key entrepreneurial traits of pro-activeness, innovation, and ambition level. Descriptive, variance, and correlation analyses disclose that entrepreneurial behaviour improves performance. Typical entrepreneurial 'bricolage' could be observed. Environmental challenges are interpreted in an optimistic manner, even caesural ones. Despite limiting environmental factors entrepreneurs seize opportunities, are more ambitious, show innovativeness, and thereby profit by higher performance.

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  • Marc Dressler, 2020. "The entrepreneurship power house of ambition and innovation: exploring German wineries," International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Small Business, Inderscience Enterprises Ltd, vol. 41(3), pages 397-430.
    • Handle: RePEc:ids:ijesbu:v:41:y:2020:i:3:p:397-430
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    Cited by:

    1. Marc Dressler, 2023. "Sustainable Business Model Design: A Multi-Case Approach Exploring Generic Strategies and Dynamic Capabilities on the Example of German Wine Estates," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 15(5), pages 1-19, February.
    2. Marc Dressler, 2023. "Generic strategic profiling of entrepreneurial SMEs – environmentalism as hygiene factor," International Entrepreneurship and Management Journal, Springer, vol. 19(1), pages 121-150, March.

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