Getting by With a Little Help From Our Friends: Cultural Influences on Entrepreneurial Orientation and Strategic Alliance Portfolio Diversity in SMEs

Q3 Business, Management and Accounting

Journal of Small Business Strategy Pub Date : 2024-05-14 DOI:10.53703/001c.117032

Louis Marino, Patrick M. Kreiser, Younggeun Lee, Jacob Holwerda, Donald Kuratko

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Abstract

We investigate how entrepreneurial orientation (EO) and national culture influence the formation of a diversified strategic alliance portfolio, encompassing various cooperative agreements based on governance mechanisms and partner diversity. A diverse strategic alliance portfolio structured in this manner may be used by smaller firms to derive benefits from social capital and absorb environmental complexities, increasing firms’ ability to survive environmental dynamism. Empirical models are estimated using data from 529 small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) located in five countries – Indonesia, Finland, Mexico, the Netherlands, and Sweden. Our findings indicate that SMEs with stronger EO are more likely to establish diversified strategic alliance portfolios. However, this effect is moderated by various national cultural factors (i.e., uncertainty avoidance, individualism, and masculinity).

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在朋友的帮助下过日子：中小企业创业导向和战略联盟组合多样性的文化影响

我们研究了创业导向（EO）和民族文化如何影响多元化战略联盟组合的形成，包括基于治理机制和合作伙伴多样性的各种合作协议。规模较小的企业可以利用以这种方式构建的多元化战略联盟组合从社会资本中获益，并吸收环境的复杂性，从而提高企业在环境动态中的生存能力。我们利用印度尼西亚、芬兰、墨西哥、荷兰和瑞典五个国家 529 家中小企业的数据对实证模型进行了估算。我们的研究结果表明，具有较强EO的中小企业更有可能建立多元化的战略联盟组合。然而，这种影响受到各种国家文化因素（即不确定性规避、个人主义和男子气概）的调节。

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Journal of Small Business Strategy Business, Management and Accounting-Strategy and Management

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3.60

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审稿时长

4 weeks

期刊介绍： The Journal of Small Business Strategy is an applied research journal. Manuscripts should be written with the small business/entrepreneurship educator, small business consultant in mind. Both conceptual and empirically-based papers are encouraged, but they must have an applied focus. All papers must have a significant literature review, be properly documented, with citations from research-based works rather than popular press or web sites. Since JSBS is an applied research journal, each article should include a substantial "Discussion and Implications" section that details how the research findings are relevant for the journal''s readers. Authors are discouraged from submitting manuscripts with extremely complex statistical analyses and/or a purely theoretical orientation. Case studies are acceptable if they contribute substantial to the understanding of small business strategy and include a significantly to the understanding of small business strategy and include a significant literature review that underscores the issues in the case. We do not accept teaching or pedagogical cases.