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posted on 2017-09-01, 08:31 authored by Paul Hughes, Ian HodgkinsonIan Hodgkinson, Mathew Hughes, Darwina A. ArshadResearch has established the relevance of entrepreneurial orientation (EO) to firm performance but skepticism remains because of the ambiguity surrounding how EO might improve firm performance. We examine the key concepts of absorptive capacity and improvisation as two alternative learning modes serving as intermediate steps between EO and firm performance. Locating our study within manufacturing SMEs in Malaysia, we find that absorptive capacity enhances the EO–performance relationship, both as a moderator and a mediator. In contrast to expectations, however, improvisation showed no such effects but conferred its own separate benefits instead. We further discuss the different effects of these learning modes on high performance and low performance groups.
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School
- Business and Economics
Department
- Business
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Asia Pacific Journal of ManagementVolume
35Issue
4Pages
1025-1053Citation
HUGHES, P. ... et al, 2017. Explaining the entrepreneurial orientation-performance relationship in emerging economies: The intermediate roles of absorptive capacity and improvisation. Asia Pacific Journal of Management, 35(4), pp. 1025–1053.Publisher
© SpringerVersion
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This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/Acceptance date
2017-08-23Publication date
2017-10-07Notes
This is a post-peer-review, pre-copyedit version of an article published in Asia Pacific Journal of Management. The final authenticated version is available online at: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10490-017-9539-7ISSN
0217-4561eISSN
1572-9958Publisher version
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