TY - JOUR N2 - The objective of this research is to investigate the perception of owner – managers and their employees regarding entrepreneurial leadership. To develop the research, two questions are raised related to the similarities or differences of the perceptions of both groups with what is established in the literature and between the self – evaluation of the owner – managers and their employees on whether the former perform as an entrepreneurial leader. As a research method, both groups are asked to perform, first individual evaluations and then to match certain behaviours and the levels at which they should appear at certain levels of entrepreneurial leadership capacity. The data gathered during the investigation were processed using the Categorical Principal Components Analysis and revealed the similarities and differences between the perceptions of the owner-managers and their employees on entrepreneurial leadership. In spite of not finding significant differences between what is established in the literature and among the perceptions of the groups under study, interesting nuances stand out that, if not identified and understood, could have a negative effect on the performance of SMEs. The results of the research demonstrated the importance of the approach of behaviour and perception in the study of entrepreneurial leadership. L1 - http://journals.pan.pl/Content/113118/PDF/10-305.pdf L2 - http://journals.pan.pl/Content/113118 PY - 2019 IS - No 3 DO - 10.24425/mper.2019.129603 KW - Entrepreneurial leadership KW - perceptions evaluation KW - SMEs KW - owner – managers KW - employees A1 - Garcıa-Vidal, Gelmar A1 - Sanchez-Rodrıguez, Alexander A1 - Perez-Campdesuner, Reyner A1 - Martınez-Vivar, Rodobaldo PB - Production Engineering Committee of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Polish Association for Production Management VL - vol. 10 DA - 26.09.2019 T1 - Entrepreneurial leadership in SMEs: perceptions of owner – managers vs. employees UR - http://journals.pan.pl/dlibra/publication/edition/113118 T2 - Management and Production Engineering Review ER -