Entrepreneurial Orientation - Nested in Organisation Structure?: A Learning Style Association

Abstract

Human beings are adaptive by nature and epitomize what we have evolutionarily termed 'survival'. We are uniquely endowed with what we call the learning 'gene', or the desire to fleet past the natural order by shaping and in many ways creating the world, as we know it. Such adaptation has marked the history of mankind, sometimes by anger and bloodshed in military conquest, at other times quite altruistically in gregarious sharing and reflection. We are privileged In industrial and intellectually advanced societies to have interacted with the modern 'institution of the business organization and its variants. Most inhabitants of what we journalistically euphemism the corporate world are themselves intellectually distinct from agrarian and suburban societies. They have specialized formal educational qualifications and are assessed in some way or the other on such grounding to be competent for their occupations. Learning therein is recognized as baggage for survival. Learning can be an action word as in verb, representing process; it can also be a result - an outcome, viz. an achievement indicator because of the content of learning. It is therefore no surprise or special knowledge that social transformations at any level, individual, group' or organizational; are underpinned by specific learning patterns or processes. The verb, an action word is a transitive grammatical entity. The manner of acting the verb represents the style in action. Business organizations to undergo learning and attain therefore resultant forms. These organizational processes are still ill mapped and not fully intelligible. Attempts are underway, nevertheless, to explain the social construction of Organizational Learning (Nicolini & Meznar, 1995; Hall, 1997).