Leading in an entrepreneurial context — present and future perspectives

This article introduces the special issue on entrepreneurial leadership, comprising six papers. Through this special issue, our principal aim as guest editors is to promote the progress of this field by deepening our knowledge of leading in an entrepreneurial context. In doing so, we invited submissions that will enhance our present and future perspectives on leading in an entrepreneurial context. We welcomed ‘research for’ rather than ‘research about’ entrepreneurial leadership. We focused especially on empirical research on particular topics within the broad area of entrepreneurial leadership. Yet we also sought studies that promote the value of entrepreneurial leadership in education programmes. The resulting collection of six articles gives the readers wide exposure to different thoughts and brings together a multidisciplinary perspective on the intersection between entrepreneurship and leadership.