ABSTRACT

This chapter presents model assumptions of the instrument supporting shareholder decisions. The second part of the chapter presents theoretical and practical implications of the study. The managerial role of shareholders as a tool for strategic and operational management and creating the value of an IT company is concluded. Choices made by shareholders related to the tasks performed for the company and attitudes towards it versus the company’s ability to create its long-term value are discussed. Manager type – a shareholder – entrepreneur or an intrapreneur versus the effectiveness of value creation in the IT sector is shortly described. The final conclusion concerns the leadership skills of shareholders-entrepreneurs versus the effectiveness of value creation of an IT company.