{"title":"Network Insight and Entrepreneurial Performance of New Ventures: Understanding the Roles of Resource Integration and Dynamic Management Capability","authors":"T. Lyu, Yuli Guo, Hao Chen, Huanling Lin, De Yu","doi":"10.1515/erj-2022-0110","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/erj-2022-0110","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This study integrates social network theory and dynamic capability theory to explore the influence of network insight on entrepreneurial performance under the mediating role of resource integration, and the influence path of dynamic management capability. We test a series of hypotheses using survey data from 228 Chinese enterprises and applying partial least squares based structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM). Our study provides knowledge to understand new ventures’ performance promotion from a new perspective of network insight. We empirically found a mechanism between structural insight, relational insight, and environmental insight on entrepreneurial performance. Besides, this study also revealed a boundary condition of dynamic management capability to understand how organizational resource integration motivates entrepreneurial performance.","PeriodicalId":45658,"journal":{"name":"Entrepreneurship Research Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2022-10-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86463012","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Richard Hanage, M. Davies, Pekka Stenholm, J. Scott
{"title":"Extending the Theory of Planned Behavior – A Longitudinal Study of Entrepreneurial Intentions","authors":"Richard Hanage, M. Davies, Pekka Stenholm, J. Scott","doi":"10.1515/erj-2022-0142","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/erj-2022-0142","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Most recent research about entrepreneurial intent (EI) examines EI and its determinants as a one-time event, but whether and how EI is continuously changing during early-stage entrepreneurship has not been adequately addressed. We track the shifts in the EI of young creative sector early-stage entrepreneurs vis-à-vis their changing external circumstances and their developing perceptions of the realities of business start-up. Our findings of 11 established and 10 new determinants of EI contribute to the Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB), and guide our appreciation of EI as a dynamic, longitudinal construct, which is the link between intent and realized action. Our findings have profound implications for policy-makers and practitioners, for instance those wishing to help early-stage entrepreneurs to establish businesses when they only possess limited entrepreneurial experience. This research study, therefore, responds to calls for more longitudinal qualitative research into the determinants of EI, entrepreneurial processes, and early business exit.","PeriodicalId":45658,"journal":{"name":"Entrepreneurship Research Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2022-10-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88878735","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Patterns of Technological Entrepreneurship and Their Determinants: Evidence from Technology-Based Manufacturing Firms in China","authors":"Jingjiang Liu, Jianhao Hu, Dong Wu, Jin Chen","doi":"10.1515/erj-2021-0256","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/erj-2021-0256","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract In this study, we argue that managing technological entrepreneurship effectively is crucial for firms’ competitive advantage and high performance. By using an inductive approach of a multiple-case study of Chinese technology-based manufacturing firms, we identify four complementary patterns of technological entrepreneurship (i.e. in-house R&D, R&D acquisition, R&D alliance, and R&D contracting) and find that possessing the uniqueness of knowledge assets and technological capabilities and capturing the value of knowledge assets and technological capabilities are the major determinants for firms to choose these patterns. Our study develops an integrative framework of technological entrepreneurship for emerging economy firms. Implications for theory, practice, and policy are discussed.","PeriodicalId":45658,"journal":{"name":"Entrepreneurship Research Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2022-10-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84591709","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Sufia Mohand-Amar, Matilde Ruiz-Arroyo, M. M. Fuentes-Fuentes
{"title":"The Relationship between Cognitive and Contextual Factors: A Self-Regulatory Mechanism Underlying Persistence in Nascent Entrepreneurs","authors":"Sufia Mohand-Amar, Matilde Ruiz-Arroyo, M. M. Fuentes-Fuentes","doi":"10.1515/erj-2021-0442","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/erj-2021-0442","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract In this study, we present a new approach to understanding the persistence of nascent entrepreneurs, by examining the role played by context and cognition through the mediation of a self-regulatory mechanism. Drawing on a sample of 316 nascent entrepreneurs from the Panel Study of Entrepreneurial Dynamics (PSED II), we first consider whether entrepreneurial self-efficacy and goal commitment predict persistence in nascent entrepreneurs. We then evaluate the role of perceived institutional support, both formal and informal. Finally, we examine the relationships between cognitive and contextual variables and their impact on entrepreneurial persistence. Our results show that goal commitment has a direct effect on entrepreneurial persistence, while self-efficacy acts indirectly through goal commitment, from which we infer the existence of a self-regulatory mechanism impacting on persistence in nascent entrepreneurs. Among the contextual factors, only informal institutional support presents a direct relationship to persistence, while perceived formal support exerts an indirect influence through cognitive self-regulation. From a practical standpoint, our findings may be useful for institutions that design policies and programmes to foster sustained economic growth through the promotion of entrepreneurship.","PeriodicalId":45658,"journal":{"name":"Entrepreneurship Research Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2022-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72405172","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Why Peer Support Matters: Entrepreneurial Stressors, Emotional Exhaustion, and Growth Intentions of Women Entrepreneurs","authors":"B. N. Neneh","doi":"10.1515/erj-2021-0501","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/erj-2021-0501","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This article builds on the stressor-strain-outcome framework to explain how entrepreneurial stressors (stressor) and emotional exhaustion (strain) hinder the growth intentions of women entrepreneurs (outcome). A stress-buffering hypothesis is also used to explain how peer support can buffer the entrepreneurial stressor – emotional exhaustion – growth intention relationship. Using a sample of 300 South African women entrepreneurs, our evidence demonstrates that in addition to a significant direct effect on growth intentions, entrepreneurial stressors also contribute to an increase in emotional exhaustion. This, in turn, hinders the growth intentions of women entrepreneurs. We argue that peer support plays a vital buffering role by significantly reducing the effect of entrepreneurial stressors on emotional exhaustion, shielding women entrepreneurs from the adverse effects of entrepreneurial stressors upon venture growth intentions. Finally, implications for theory and practice are discussed.","PeriodicalId":45658,"journal":{"name":"Entrepreneurship Research Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2022-09-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84736147","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Is e-Government a Driver to Enhance Entrepreneurship? An Empirical Investigation of European Countries","authors":"Leavitt Ha","doi":"10.1515/erj-2021-0487","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/erj-2021-0487","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This paper investigates the influences of digital public services on the ease of setting up a new business in 28 European countries during the period of 2012–2019. The development of digital public services is reflected in business mobility and key enablers. The digitalization-entrepreneurship nexus is analyzed by using the panel corrected standard error (PCSE) model, while we employ the dynamic fixed effects estimator (DFE) used in the autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) model to measure the short-run and long-run effects. Our results indicate that the online delivery of government services positively affects the density of entrepreneurship in a country. We find robust results utilizing various econometric techniques and adding further explanatory variables. However, the positive effects of offering public services online are only found in the long run. Using digital public services benefits the entrepreneurial sectors by reducing the time and costs required to start a new business. Notably, digital transformation in the public sector acts as a shield to protect enterprises by dampening the detrimental effects of uncertainty on entrepreneurship.","PeriodicalId":45658,"journal":{"name":"Entrepreneurship Research Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2022-09-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81578370","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Investigating the Relationship between Technological Entrepreneurship and National Innovativeness: Moderating Effects of Intellectual Property Protection and R&D Transfer Environment","authors":"Doohee Chung, Seung-lin Yang, K. Marhold","doi":"10.1515/erj-2020-0530","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/erj-2020-0530","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This study examines how technological entrepreneurship affects national innovativeness based on the Knowledge Spillover Theory of Entrepreneurship. It also examines how technological environments related to intellectual property protection and R&D transfer moderate this relationship. Based on data from 82 countries on technological entrepreneurship, intellectual property protection and innovation activities, this study finds that a higher ratio of technological entrepreneurship in the country enhances national innovativeness. In addition, the level of R&D transfer environment is found to negatively moderate this relationship, and evidence is found for a negative moderating effect of the strength of the intellectual property protection environment in a subsample of innovation-driven economies.","PeriodicalId":45658,"journal":{"name":"Entrepreneurship Research Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2022-09-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88795893","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"How Does Subsidiary Autonomy Influence Performance in the Emerging Economy: Different Moderating Effects of Subsidiary Entrepreneurship","authors":"Cheng-Fei Tsai","doi":"10.1515/erj-2021-0346","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/erj-2021-0346","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Previous research has confirmed the overall positive relationship between subsidiary autonomy and performance. However, given the lack of consensus regarding the effect of subsidiary autonomy on performance, contingency is required to understand complex linkages and possible causality in both developed and emerging economies. This study adopts the agency theory and entrepreneurship to address the interplay among subsidiary autonomy, entrepreneurship, and performance in the emerging economy of China. The empirical results indicate that renewal entrepreneurship has a positive moderating effect and venturing entrepreneurship has an inverted U-shaped moderating effect on the positive relationship between subsidiary autonomy and performance. This study extends the research context and contributes to the literature on agency theory and entrepreneurship in the multinational corporation.","PeriodicalId":45658,"journal":{"name":"Entrepreneurship Research Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2022-09-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88274782","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Resource Orchestration in Hub-Based Entrepreneurial Ecosystems: A Case Study on the Seaweed Industry","authors":"Baozhou Lu, Song Zhang","doi":"10.1515/erj-2022-0071","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/erj-2022-0071","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Hub-based entrepreneurial ecosystems (HEEs) have become an important venue for entrepreneurship. This study examines how ecosystem-specific resources and capabilities are orchestrated by ecosystem actors (i.e., hub firms and ecosystem entrepreneurs) to support the development of new ventures in the context of HEEs. Using an explorative single case study approach, we uncover nine distinctive resource orchestration subprocesses that are grouped into three aggregate processes that help sustain enduring entrepreneurship in the HEE context. Our findings extend and complement the literature on entrepreneurship and ecosystems by developing a new resource orchestration model and by illustrating how resource orchestration in an HEE facilitates the synergies across ecosystem ventures as well as the synergies between hub firms and ecosystem entrepreneurs in coexploring and coexploiting new opportunities.","PeriodicalId":45658,"journal":{"name":"Entrepreneurship Research Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2022-08-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82484132","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Yong-Qi Xu, Yevhen Baranchenko, Zhibin Lin, Qin Wu, E. Arakpogun
{"title":"How Does the Combination of Factors Influence Entrepreneurs’ Decision-Making Logic? A Qualitative Comparative analysis","authors":"Yong-Qi Xu, Yevhen Baranchenko, Zhibin Lin, Qin Wu, E. Arakpogun","doi":"10.1515/erj-2021-0249","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/erj-2021-0249","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This study explores the different paths that lead to the effectuation and causation of entrepreneurial decision-making logic. Data were collected from a sample of 300 entrepreneurs in China in January and March 2018 and analyzed using crisp-set qualitative comparative analysis (csQCA). The results reveal various combinations of four key factors, i.e., environmental uncertainty, entrepreneurial experience, organizational slack, and centralization of decision-making factors, determine the effectuation or causation logics. No antecedent condition alone is necessary to produce the outcome, although several factors are identified as sufficient for the presence of effectual or causal decision-making logics. This study advances the entrepreneurship literature by revealing the combinations of factors that Knowledge of how the factors interact in the decision-making process determine entrepreneurial decision-making logic. The study findings can help entrepreneurs to better communicate, discuss and justify their decisions.","PeriodicalId":45658,"journal":{"name":"Entrepreneurship Research Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2022-08-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83744519","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}