The entrepreneurial director

• Main Author: Bruce C. Sherony
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Emerald Publishing 2007-03-01
• Series: New England Journal of Entrepreneurship
• Online Access: https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/NEJE-10-02-2007-B005/full/pdf?title=the-entrepreneurial-director

The argument that the board of directors can be a helpful tool for entrepreneurships and small businesses derives from the rationale for using boards from both a macro and a micro perspective.Society depends on boards to provide overall checks and balances in the running of businesses.This could not be more evident from the role of the board in Enron’s collapse (U.S. Senate 2002). The boardʼs value to the entrepreneur is found in the application of the micro perspective.Two sets of recommendations are developed to formulate an improved model of directorship actions and behaviors. First, duties and responsibilities of the board of directors are expanded to help guide entrepreneurs.Second, five unique behavior patterns are then proposed that can be particularly helpful in carrying out the duties and activities of the board for guiding entrepreneurial success.