Managed Ownership Systems: An Integrative Framework of Entrepreneurial Creation, Development, and Expansion
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https://doi.org/10.66203/directiva.01206Keywords:
entrepreneurial ownership, managed ownership systems, franchising, capability development, resource orchestration, organizational scalingAbstract
Entrepreneurship, franchising, capability development, and organizational growth research have generated substantial insights into venture creation, organizational performance, and scaling processes. However, scholarly understanding of entrepreneurial ownership remains fragmented because prevailing theories primarily emphasize ventures, firms, governance structures, or growth outcomes rather than ownership itself as a distinct theoretical construct. This conceptual paper addresses that gap by proposing the Managed Ownership Systems (MOS) framework, an integrative perspective explaining how entrepreneurial ownership is systematically created, developed, expanded, and sustained through organizational mechanisms. Drawing on entrepreneurship theory, franchising research, resource-based and dynamic capability perspectives, resource orchestration theory, organizational learning, and replication research, the study synthesizes previously disconnected streams of literature into a unified ownership-centered framework. The proposed model conceptualizes entrepreneurial ownership as a developmental trajectory consisting of four interrelated dimensions: ownership creation, capability development, ownership scaling, and ownership sustainability. Six propositions are developed to explain the relationships among these dimensions and the mechanisms through which ownership evolves over time. The study contributes to entrepreneurship and management scholarship by positioning ownership as an explicit theoretical construct, integrating fragmented perspectives, and introducing an ownership-centered lens for understanding entrepreneurial development, organizational growth, and scalable entrepreneurial participation. The framework also provides a foundation for future empirical research.
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