This refers the 13 traits and skills of entrepreneurial people. They are determination and perseverance., drive to achieve, opportunity orientation, persistent problem-solving, seeking feedback, internal locus of control, tolerance for ambiguity, calculated risk taking, high energy level, creativity and innovativeness, vision, passion, and team building.
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Career Re-Invention Through Entrepreneurial Mindset and Entrepreneurial Orientation in the Post-Pandemic Era: Multiple Cases from the Developed and Developing Countries
Lukman Raimi (School of Business and Economics, Universiti Brunei Darussalam, Brunei) and Jainaba M. L. Kah (Department of Strategic Policy and Delivery, Office of the President, Gambia)
Copyright: © 2022
|Pages: 26
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-8626-6.ch011
Abstract
The chapter explicates how career reinvention is leveraged for saving jobs and ensuring business continuity in readiness for the post-pandemic era. The employees exploited entrepreneurial mindset (EM) as a resilience strategy to save current jobs and create new jobs, while employers adopted the entrepreneurial orientation (EO) to keep their businesses afloat and meet their bottom-line. In the 20 multiple cases reviewed, some of the EM characteristics that employees manifested include determination, drive to achieve, opportunity orientation, persistent problem-solving, internal locus of control, tolerance for ambiguity, calculated risk-taking, high energy level, innovativeness, vision, passion, and team building. Comparatively, the EO dimensions that employees utilised include innovativeness, proactiveness, risk-taking, competitive aggressiveness, and autonomy. The chapter enriches the EM and EO concepts by explicating both as career re-invention strategies for saving existing jobs, creating new jobs, and ensuring business continuity in the post-pandemic era.