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Sales Enablement In Entrepreneurial Ventures: Essays On The Role Of Social Capital And Resilience In Disruptive Environments, Ali Anwar Jan 2023

Sales Enablement In Entrepreneurial Ventures: Essays On The Role Of Social Capital And Resilience In Disruptive Environments, Ali Anwar

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Enduring commercial success of entrepreneurial ventures is often associated with effective selling and an ability to navigate dynamic environments. However, two challenges stand out: 1) effectively managing cross-functional integration of sales with other value-creating organizational functions, given that selling in the contemporary organization is a multi-actor, strategic effort, and 2) being resilient to environmental disruptions, given the increasing frequency of their occurrence. I take a sales enablement perspective to focus on themes which are essential to optimizing sales performance in entrepreneurial ventures. The first theme focuses on internal social capital embedded in the cross-functional relationships of the sales, marketing, and …