Journal of Contemporary Issues in Business and Government

Abstract

Today‟s corporates need entrepreneurial leadership. Intricacies in business, coupled with global
transformation, are pushing businesses to prioritize sustainability. And entrepreneurial leadership
requires having a pool of individuals who are up to work given lack of resources or uncertainties
and environmental turbulence and the recent COVID-19 pandemic bedeviling industry.
Ordinarily, the possession of leadership qualities by corporate managers is just not sufficient
enough to maintain growth, development and sustainability of enterprises. It is at this point that
the philosophy of entrepreneurial leadership emerges. The paper explicitly examines
entrepreneurial leadership characteristics and entrepreneurial capabilities of the current leaders in
the small and medium enterprise. In order to achieve this, the paper systematically reviews the
literature to assess the current status of entrepreneurial leaders‟ research, highlights knowledge
gaps and offers prospective directions for future research. Today, the need for entrepreneurial
leaders in businesses is increasing and cannot be overemphasized. The study findings show that
there is a strong relationship between entrepreneurial leadership and organizational performance
with characteristics‟ such as leaders paranoid, confidence, risk taking, proactive, visionary,
decisiveness at the fore of entrepreneurial leaders. The need to produce a crop of leaders with
cognitive ambidexterity, creative in scope and with predictive logic on how the future is likely to
be cannot be overemphasized for corporate sustainability. The present study makes a theoretical
contribution by highlighting the importance of EL in fostering team cohesion in the and
ultimately driving it to perform better and engage in more innovative behavioursthat sustains
organizations.The study further recommends for a crossbreed research on entrepreneurial
leadership versus corporate vision across Sub-Saharan region.