Personality characteristics and the process of start-up: the moderating role of institutional environment

DECISION ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 45 (4) ◽  
pp. 287-300
Author(s):  
M. Kannadhasan ◽  
Pankaj Singh ◽  
Parikshit Charan ◽  
Pavan Kumar Balivada
2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (5) ◽  
pp. 1822 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cai Li ◽  
Naveed Ahmed ◽  
Sikandar Ali Qalati ◽  
Asadullah Khan ◽  
Shumaila Naz

Business incubators create value by combining the entrepreneurial spirit of start-ups with the resources that are typically available to new businesses. It is widely recognized that knowledge-based entrepreneurial companies are the main creators of economic growth, and such enterprises require special business development services. Therefore, the study aims to examine the role of business incubators in providing greater services (networking services, capital support, and training programs) in entrepreneurship development. Secondly, it also examines the mediating and moderating role of business start-up and government regulations for entrepreneurship. Using a quantitative methodology, we examine 567 samples through structural equation modeling. We find that the business incubators are playing an effective mediating role in providing networking services, capital support, and training programs to individuals and entrepreneurs, which are significant for entrepreneurship development, whereas business start-up positively mediates the relationship between networking services, capital support, training programs, and entrepreneurship development. Government regulations for entrepreneurship have a direct effect on entrepreneurship development. More importantly, government regulations for entrepreneurship have a positive moderating effect between business start-up and entrepreneurship development. Our study identifies the critical resources needed to improve the quality of business incubators and to ensure the availability of such resources to improve entrepreneurship development.


2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (6) ◽  
pp. 3162
Author(s):  
Juan M. Gil-Barragan ◽  
María José López-Sánchez

This paper examines how the institutional environment (from a multi-level approach) and the moderating role of innovation networks and rural location explain which mechanism (institutional fostering or escapism) underlies the phenomenon of accelerated internationalization of small and medium-sized enterprises. By analyzing a dataset of 2289 firms from Argentina, Colombia, and Peru, the results suggest that the access of strategic resources and capabilities may either reinforce an institutional fostering or institutional escapism effect. The findings show that institutional fostering is associated with formal institutional voids and rural location, while institutional escapism is associated with local informal institutions, corporate sustainability certifications, and innovation networks. The institutional escapism effect is higher for firms that have social or environmental certifications. Implications for theory and practice are discussed.


2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 163-169
Author(s):  
Javed Hussain ◽  
Tariq Mehmood Dar ◽  
Neelofer Tariq

The following study clarifies the role of risk attitude in revolving the relationship between Financing Objectives and personality characteristics and the moderating role of investment savvy between risk attitude and financing objectives by the particular sample size of 200 students. The participants of the study belonged from finance background. To simplify the collected data, the regression analyses was utilized in a flow to implicate the effect upon the dependent variables of the independent variables. To get more enhanced results, the mediator and the moderator were uplifted. Hence by, the results revealed that individuals who are activity, determined, and sympathy towards others are more willing to opt for STFO (short term financing objectives). Whilst, in long run extraversion, openness to experience and agreeableness, and conscientiousness traits are more inclined towards LTFO (long term financing objectives). Moreover, the study further mentions that STFO and LTFO are not much affected by investment savvy of an individuals. Nonetheless, the investment savvy is not really bothered by the relationship of financing objectives and risk attitude.


2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (18) ◽  
pp. 7730
Author(s):  
Qianwen Lu ◽  
Shouming Chen ◽  
Peien Chen

This study links the gender diversity of the top management team (TMT) to corporate social responsibility (CSR) and examines the moderating role of the marketization level in their relationship. According to the token theory, females are “tokens” and have difficulty playing their roles when they are rare in groups, where their presence is used for providing legitimacy. Meanwhile, CSR is implemented to gain legitimacy. Therefore, we predicted that there was a negative relationship between female top managers and CSR, and that the marketization level positively moderated their relationship. The hypotheses were supported by the data from 17,032 manager-year observations of listed companies in China. The results indicated that the female top managers’ presence and CSR performance had the same function of gaining legitimacy. With limited resources, firms added females at the expense of decreasing investment in CSR when under the external pressure of increasing female top managers. Furthermore, this negative relationship was stronger in firms with a less-developed institutional environment because firms with weak institutions have strong incentives to find alternatives to fill the institutional void, which helps to gain access to resources and reduce transaction costs.


Author(s):  
Arezoo SOLEIMANI ◽  
Hossein SAMAVATIAN ◽  
Aboulghasem NOURI ◽  
Mohsen SHARIF RUHANI ◽  
Nasim NAJARI

Background: Petroleum-related industries, including Gas Company are among the major organizations in Iran. Development of these organizations requires advanced technical equipment, which may lead to higher rates of accidents. Methods: The main purpose of this article was to investigate the moderating effect of the selected demographic factors and personality on the relationship of organizational justice with events and pseudo-events in Isfahan Province Gas Company. This descriptive correlational study was conducted over all 72 recorded events and pseudo-events in 2011- 2015. The participants included 32 workers, still working in this company. In order to collect data,   organizational justice, personality (NEO), researcher-made demographic factors, and recorded accident rating questionnaires were used. Results: The results were analyzed using regression and moderated analysis. The findings showed that living location, kind of job, and education had significant relationship with accidents. Furthermore, job antecedent, education, and neurosis moderated the relationship between organizational justice and accidents (p≤0/05). Conclusion: Personality can affect safety and safety affects accidents. So, in order to reduce the number of accidents, personality characteristics should be considered.


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