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The relevance of slack resource availability and networking effectiveness for entrepreneurial orientation
journal contribution
posted on 2017-09-04, 10:20 authored by Mathew Hughes, Fabian Eggers, Sascha Kraus, Paul HughesMotivated by the resource-based view of the firm and its Penrose-inspired views on resource orchestration, we seek to disentangle how resource availability might affect the emergence of an entrepreneurial orientation within firms, and how firms might redress the resource absorption effects of EO to enhance firm performance. Using a sample of 607 German small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), we investigate: 1) the influence of slack resource availability on the EO of SMEs; 2) the mediating effect of networking effectiveness on the relationship between EO and firm performance; 3) the influence of firm performance on slack resource availability. The results suggest that slack resource availability positively influences EO, networking effectiveness partially mediates the relationship between EO and firm performance, and the firm performance achieved to date positively influences slack resource availability. Our work reconciles EO with the RBV and contributes new knowledge to understand the resource absorption effects and resource refuelling needs contained within the EO-performance relationship - a hitherto ignored consideration.
History
School
- Business and Economics
Department
- Business
Published in
International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Small BusinessVolume
26Issue
1Pages
116 - 138Citation
HUGHES, M. ... et al., 2015. The relevance of slack resource availability and networking effectiveness for entrepreneurial orientation. International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Small Business, 26 (1), pp.116-138.Publisher
© InderscienceVersion
- AM (Accepted Manuscript)
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2015ISSN
1476-1297eISSN
1741-8054Publisher version
Language
- en