Entrepreneurship and management in paradoxical relationship: anxiety coming out of left field

Organizational Management reached a watershed in the 1980s when theoretical concerns turned to organizational structure versus individual action. Since then, entrepreneurship theorists have taken a keen interest in management theory informing themselves of insights coming from the organizational field. This paper creates an opportunity to contrast the two approaches which are seen in a paradoxical relationship to each other. In the process existential anxiety is identified as a hindrance to decisionmaking and the flow of day-to-day forward progress. A literature on uncertainty and risk helps to clarify uncertainty which is often behind anxiety while it is being experienced. Two items from recent research give support to managing all such uncertainty.