This inspirational small business story is based on an ‘abstract’ form of entrepreneurial leadership demonstrated by James Watt and Martin Dickie, two young Scottish entrepreneurs who formed the hugely successful brewery BrewDog in 2007. Their rise has been rapid in the global recession. Their avowed ‘Punk business ethos’ flouts business convention but they are not entrepreneurial leaders in the accepted iconic, idolatry sense we expect from those so titled. This chapter examines entrepreneurship in a small or medium-sized enterprise context through investigating abstract phenomenon associated with this confusing concept. The author looks at the company and iconic brand as an abstract, protean form of entrepreneurial leadership. The theoretical basis used is that of Johnston and Scholes’s cultural web, to present stories and images associated with their particular ethos of leadership.
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Front Matter
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PART I: INTRODUCTION
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PART II: THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES ON ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND LEADERSHIP
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PART III: LEADERSHIP IN ENTREPRENEURIAL CONTEXTS
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PART IV: APPLICATIONS OF ENTREPRENEURIAL LEADERSHIP
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PART V: ENTREPRENEURIAL LEADERSHIP AND LEARNING
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PART VI: FUTURE DIRECTIONS
