eBRC Research Report 23

Strategic Management of High Growth Ventures
- a Venture-to-Capital Framework for Professional Entrepreneurship

Jukka Ala-Mutka

What causes a company to become a great company or what is the language to build up the “DNA” of an enterprise from the very beginning? In this study, combining entrepreneurship and strategic management perspectives into a whole is called professional entrepreneurship. Methodologically, the study builds on a synthesis of three different approaches: (1) Conceptual construction; (2) Survey exercise; (3) Case study focus on the Finnish CRM market and comprehensively describing the transition of case firm.

The contribution of the study develops a certain part of strategic management anchored to the cognitive approach and provides managerial implications for the design and implementation of business models in the context of growth venturing. In addition, it can be stated that professional entrepreneurs should be considered as “the geese who develop the golden eggs for societies at large”.

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Distribution
e-Business Research Center eBRC
Tampere University of Technology and University of Tampere

Published by
Tampere University of Technology (TUT) and
University of Tampere (UTA)

Printed edition ISSN 1459-0158 ISBN 952-15-1499-X (TUT) 951-44-6493-1 (UTA)	Electronic edition ISSN 1459-0166 ISBN 952-15-1500-7 (TUT) 951-44-6494-X (UTA)

Printed by Cityoffset Oy, Tampere 2005

Also published in:
Tampere University of Technology. Publication 565.
ISSN: 1459-2045, ISBN: 952-15-1479-5