Analysis of Leadership in Start-ups and Small Businesses: Report

This report provides an analysis of a peer-reviewed journal article focusing on leadership and management within the context of start-ups and small businesses. The report begins by introducing the article, which examines the skills and traits essential for successful leadership. It highlights the article's relevance, considering its publication date and context. The analysis delves into the research questions addressed, such as the link between achievement motivation and success, and the emphasis on specific leadership traits. The study's methodology, involving a questionnaire survey of small business owners and managers in Lebanon, is outlined. The report also acknowledges the study's limitations, including the sample size and cultural considerations. Overall, the report aims to provide a comprehensive understanding of the research and its implications for leadership in start-up environments, emphasizing the importance of specific skills and managerial motivation for long-term success.

Foundational Skills
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Introduction
• The selected peer reviewed journal article is based on the area of
“Leadership and Management of Start-ups, SME and Family
Business”.
• It seeks to demonstrate an understanding of the behaviour of
management and leaders within an organisational context and
especially within the small business and start-up context.

Main Body
• The article is of the year 2012 which depicts that the journal article is
not very current but not too old also.
• It is moderately current and thus can be said to be moderately reliable
and relevant to be studied on the subject of leadership and management
in Start-ups and SME context.
• The article is analysed from various perspectives and domains
afterwards to acknowledge its different aspects.

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• The chosen peer reviewed journal article explores the wide array of
traits as well as skills that are required to be present within the
leaders in order to demonstrate a favourable behavioural pattern.
• Such kind of behaviour demonstration provides due assistance in
managing the small businesses as well as start-ups in an effective
manner.

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The research hypotheses that mainly got addressed via the execution
of this peer reviewed journal article were:-
H1 Successful owners and/or managers of small business and start-
ups will gain satisfaction from encountering success and/or being the
first one to complete a tough task.
H2 Successful owners and/or managers of small business and start-
ups will likely to achieve high standards of excellence by virtue of
giving their full commitment to attainment of business growth.

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•The main research direction in relation to this journal article has
been found to be that there are certain set of skills, knowledge and
traits which are essentially required by a person to gain success as
well as growth in the long term while becoming an entrepreneur.
•The main reason behind such direction has been to gain an
insight into the comprehension of different types of traits and skills
which underpin the behaviour of the leaders while running and
managing a small business or start-up.

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•For conducting this study, sampling method was put to use by
the researcher. This method mainly provides due assistance in
collection of data by way of the usage of a questionnaire survey.
•This was given to 154 managers and/or owners of the small
businesses as well as start-ups of Lebanon to derive knowledge of
their thinking in relation to leadership skill set as well as
effectualness of managerial motivation.

Conclusion
•The main limitation of this study was sample decided for
gathering data was very small and it can’t be said it reflect the
whole Lebanese market which is covers by small businesses.
•Another limitation can be considered as difference within the
culture of Lebanese people and the American where actually the
study is conducted.

References
Fahed-Sreih, J. and Morin-Delerm, S., 2012. A Perspective on
Leadership in Small Businesses: Is the Need for Achievement a
Motive in Predicting Success?. International Journal of
Entrepreneurship, 16, p.1.

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