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Entrepreneurial orientation and new venture resource acquisition: why context matters

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posted on 2020-04-21, 12:50 authored by Miaomiao Yin, Mathew Hughes, Qilin Hu
Resource acquisition is vital for new venture survival and growth. However, surprisingly little is known about how the entrepreneurial orientation (EO) of the new venture affects its resource acquisition. Drawing on the resource-based view of the firm, we articulate a theory and treatment of EO that address this oversight and remedy for the routine absence of context among studies of EO. Accounting for the simultaneous effect of environmental dynamism and an opportunistic orientation (OO), a tendency among Chinese new ventures to imitate technology and profit through market information asymmetry, as important contextual variables reflecting the Chinese business context, we provide insights on the contingency effects of contextual variables. Results from a quantitative study of 361 Chinese new ventures show that EO positively influences resource acquisition. However, this relationship is context sensitive. In a low dynamic environment, OO negatively moderates this relationship. However, in a highly dynamic environment, OO exhibits no effect on the relationship between EO and new venture resource acquisition. Our results contribute to a resource-based theory of EO and reveal its context sensitivity. Our study is a step in moving the scholarship of EO forward and away from the performance debate towards greater predictive accuracy of EO and its systems of effects.

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  • Business and Economics

Department

  • Business

Published in

Asia Pacific Journal of Management

Volume

38

Pages

1369-1398

Publisher

Springer (part of Springer Nature)

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  • VoR (Version of Record)

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© The Authors

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Acceptance date

2020-04-15

Publication date

2020-05-01

Copyright date

2021

ISSN

0217-4561

eISSN

1572-9958

Language

  • en

Depositor

Prof Mat Hughes Deposit date: 15 April 2020

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