关键词: 战略创业, 新兴经济, 创业心智, 创业领导, 战略选择理论, 动态能力, strategic entrepreneurship, emerging economy, entrepreneurial mindset, entrepreneurial leadership, strategic choice theory, dynamic capability

Abstract: Building on the definition of strategic entrepreneurship, this paper proposes that strategic entrepreneurship involves two dimensions—obtaining advantages in existing businesses and entering into new businesses. Afterwards, this paper builds a strategic entrepreneurship process model by investigating a Chinese privately-owned company (the Wanda Group) through a longitudinal case study. The results show that in emerging economies, the strategic entrepreneurship is a strategic choice by entrepreneurs under environmental constraints. In the ‘top-down’ strategic entrepreneurship, entrepreneurs play pivotal roles with their entrepreneurial mindsets, which are the driving forces of strategic entrepreneurship. Firms ensure first-mover advantages of new business through the product innovation and resource preemption. Strategic entrepreneurship in emerging economies is a process involves successive ‘advantages seeking’ and ‘opportunities seeking’, which enables firms to balance the resource demands from both activities.