Organizations of Social Entrepreneurship in Croatia

Positive Relationship ◽

Social Economic ◽

Research Field ◽

Overall Performance ◽

High Level ◽

The Relationship ◽

Commercial Entrepreneurship

This chapter focuses on organizations of social entrepreneurship (SE) in Croatia. It primarily aims to 1) measure the level of their entrepreneurial orientation (EO), and social, economic, and overall performance; 2) explore the relationship between organizational EO and these three types of performance. While the topic represents a heavily investigated research field in the context of commercial entrepreneurship, it hasn't caught much attention among researchers of SE. So far, none of the above-mentioned variables have been empirically investigated within the SE scene in Croatia. The sample included 46 organizations, each represented by one highly ranked executive. The main findings revealed a relatively high level of organizational EO and social, economic, and overall performance, as well as a positive relationship among the variables.

Entrepreneurial orientation and firm performance: the mediating role of functional performances

Management Research Review ◽

10.1108/mrr-03-2017-0092 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 41 (7) ◽

pp. 878-900 ◽

Cited By ~ 14

Author(s):

Jafar Rezaei ◽

Roland Ortt

Keyword(s):

Firm Performance ◽

Risk Taking ◽

Positive Relationship ◽

Sales Performance ◽

Production Performance ◽

Equation Modeling ◽

Content Type ◽

Overall Performance ◽

Purpose Earlier studies have generally shown a positive relationship between entrepreneurial orientation (EO) and the overall performance of the firm. The purpose of this paper is to understand in more detail how EO influences firm performance. It adds to the literature by distinguishing performances of different functions in a firm and by exploring how the dimensions of EO influence these functional performances and, in turn, overall firm performance. Design/methodology/approach This study examined the relationship between three dimensions of EO (innovativeness, proactiveness, risk-taking), three types of functional performances of firms (R&D performance, production performance, marketing and sales performance) and the overall performance of firms. The data are collected from 279 high-tech small-to-medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) using a postal survey. The proposed hypotheses are tested using structural equation modeling (SEM). Findings The results indicate that the dimensions of (EO) are related in different ways to the performance of functions in a firm. A positive relationship is observed between innovativeness and R&D performance and between proactiveness and marketing and sales performance. A negative relationship exists between risk-taking and production performance. The results also show a sequential positive relationship from R&D via production and marketing and sales to overall performance of firms. Therefore, it is concluded that the R&D, production and marketing and sales functions reinforce each other in a logic order and are complementary in their effect on overall firm performance. Practical implications The results imply that the three functions, R&D, production and marketing and sales, in a firm play different roles, both in the firm’s EO and in their contribution to overall performance. Managers can use the findings to monitor and influence the performance of different functions in a firm to increase overall firm performance. Originality/value The first contribution of this study is that it unravels (i) which dimensions of EO have an effect on the performance of separate functions in a firm, indicating that functions contribute in different ways to entrepreneurial orientation of the firm. A second contribution is assessing how the performance of these functions influence the firm’s overall performance. This paper fills a gap in the literature by exploring internal firm variables mediating the relationship between EO and overall firm performance and contributes to the discussion on the contradictory results regarding the relationship between risk-taking and firm performance.

Supervisor Knowledge Sharing and Employee Knowledge Sharing: The Moderating Roles of Learning Goal Orientation and Affective Organizational Commitment

Sustainability ◽

10.3390/su13084176 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 13 (8) ◽

pp. 4176

Author(s):

Seckyoung Loretta Kim

Keyword(s):

Organizational Commitment ◽

Knowledge Sharing ◽

Goal Orientation ◽

Social Exchange ◽

Positive Relationship ◽

Affective Organizational Commitment ◽

Learning Goal ◽

Learning Goal Orientation ◽

High Level ◽

Recognizing the importance of knowledge sharing, this study adopted social learning and social exchange perspectives to understand when employees may engage in knowledge sharing. Using data collected from 192 employees in various South Korean organizations, the findings demonstrate that there is a positive relationship between supervisor knowledge sharing and employee knowledge sharing. As employees perceive a high level of supervisor knowledge sharing, they are likely to engage in knowledge sharing based on social learning and social exchange theories. Furthermore, the study explores the moderating effects of learning goal orientation and affective organizational commitment in the relationship between supervisor knowledge sharing and employee knowledge sharing. The result supports the hypothesis that the relationship between supervisor knowledge sharing and employee knowledge sharing is strengthened when there is a high level of affective organizational commitment. Employees who obtain valuable knowledge from their supervisors are likely to engage in knowledge sharing when they are emotionally attached to their organization. However, in contrast to the hypothesis, the positive relationship between supervisor knowledge sharing and employee knowledge sharing was stronger at the lower levels of learning goal orientation (LGO) than at the higher levels of LGO.

Career Plateau and Turnover Intention in Chinese Employees: Career Anchor as Moderator

Social Behavior and Personality An International Journal ◽

10.2224/sbp.2015.43.5.757 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 43 (5) ◽

pp. 757-766 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

Yueran Wen ◽

Liu Liu

Keyword(s):

Turnover Intention ◽

Positive Relationship ◽

Management Practices ◽

Career Anchor ◽

Career Plateau ◽

Strong Positive Relationship ◽

High Level ◽

The Relationship ◽

Moderating Role

Based on a survey of 147 Chinese employees, we examined the relationship between perceived career plateau and turnover intention, and the moderating role of career anchor in challenge in this process. We hypothesized that perceived career plateau would be positively related to turnover intention, and that this relationship would be stronger in employees with a higher level of career anchor in challenge than in those with a lower level. The results showed that perceived career plateau had a strong positive relationship with turnover intention, especially in employees with a high level of career anchor in challenge. These findings have implications for research in career development and turnover intention, as well as in management practices.

Terrorism and Democracy

Comparative Sociology ◽

10.1163/15691330-bja10033 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 20 (3) ◽

pp. 344-379

Author(s):

Andrey Korotayev ◽

Ilya Vaskin ◽

Daniil Romanov

Keyword(s):

Positive Relationship ◽

The Other ◽

Terrorist Attacks ◽

Democratic Regime ◽

Political Regimes ◽

Powerful Factor ◽

Terrorist Activity ◽

Low Intensity ◽

High Level ◽

Abstract This article proposes a new explanation of the positive correlation between democracy and terrorism detected in many previous studies. It is shown that this might be accounted for by the fact that factional democracies are subjected to more terrorist attacks than the other political regimes. A positive relationship between the democratic regime and the level of terrorist activity can be obtained due to the inclusion of factional democracies in the sample of democratic states. If factional democracies are excluded from the sample, the relationship between the level of terrorist activity and the democratic regime is negative. The analysis allows to maintain that factional democracy is a rather powerful factor of a high level of terrorist activity, while non-factional democracy turns out to be rather a statistically significant predictor of a relatively low intensity of terrorist attacks.

Green Economic Efficiency Evaluation Based on the GMM Model

Mathematical Problems in Engineering ◽

10.1155/2021/7573355 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 2021 ◽

pp. 1-8

Author(s):

Haohui Wang ◽

Gang Peng

Keyword(s):

Economic Growth ◽

Economic Efficiency ◽

Positive Relationship ◽

Efficiency Evaluation ◽

Significant Positive Relationship ◽

Economic Growth Model ◽

Green Development ◽

The Difference ◽

High Level ◽

This paper uses a panel data sample of 30 resource-based cities (hereinafter referred to as R-B cities) in China from 2009 to 2019, constructs the green economic efficiency level (hereinafter referred to as GEE) using the super-SBM model, incorporates the GEE value into the endogenous economic growth model, combines the difference equation and the level equation, and estimates the relationship between the green efficiency level and economic growth using the systematic GMM method. The study came to the following major conclusions: First, green development in Chinese resource-based cities is moderately high, and green economic efficiency varies by region, with a relatively low level of GEE in the central region and a relatively high level of GEE in the eastern and western regions. Second, on both static and dynamic dimensions, Chinese resource-based cities can be classified into seven types based on their level of green development. Third, the GEE of Chinese resource-based cities has a significant positive relationship with economic growth, with the effect of green economic efficiency on economic growth being stronger in the central and northeastern regions.

The Relationship between Job Satisfaction and Organizational Commitment among Employees of a Selected Tertiary Educational Institution in Northwest Haiti

EAST AFRICAN JOURNAL OF EDUCATION AND SOCIAL SCIENCES ◽

10.46606/eajess2021v02i01.0063 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 2 (Issue 1 (January to March 2021)) ◽

pp. 33-40

Author(s):

Willy Lima ◽

Daniel Allida

Keyword(s):

Job Satisfaction ◽

Organizational Commitment ◽

Affective Commitment ◽

Positive Relationship ◽

Educational Institution ◽

Motivating Factors ◽

Normative Commitment ◽

Strong Positive Relationship ◽

High Level ◽

This study sought to investigate the relationship between job satisfaction and organizational commitment among employees of a selected tertiary educational institution at Northwest of Haiti. A questionnaire was used to collect data from 55 employees. It was found that there is a moderate level of job satisfaction and high level of continuance and normative commitment among employees. It was also found that there is a strong positive relationship between job satisfaction and affective commitment and a weak positive relationship between job satisfaction and normative commitment. It was therefore recommended that administrators should seek to find ways and means to provide extrinsic and intrinsic motivating factors in order to prevent job dissatisfaction with regrettable consequences for the institution when employees may decide to leave their organization.

Entrepreneurial competencies, entrepreneurial orientation, entrepreneurial network, government business support and SMEs performance. The moderating role of the external environment

Journal of Small Business and Enterprise Development ◽

10.1108/jsbed-12-2018-0390 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽

Author(s):

Buba Musa Pulka ◽

Azahari Ramli ◽

Armanurah Mohamad

Keyword(s):

External Environment ◽

Survey Method ◽

Cross Sectional ◽

Content Type ◽

Business Support ◽

Entrepreneurial Competencies ◽

Multistage Sampling ◽

High Level ◽

PurposeThe purpose of this study is to examine the moderating influence of the external environment on the relationship between entrepreneurial competencies, entrepreneurial orientation, entrepreneurial network, government business support and SMEs performance. The objectives of the study are achieved using the resource-based view and dynamic capability theory.Design/methodology/approachThe survey method of research was used by personally administering questionnaires to the respondents. Multistage sampling techniques are used in selecting 470 SMEs owners/managers that participated in the survey. SPSS 24 and PLS-SEM 3.0 were used in the analysis of the data.FindingsIn the Nigerian context, the findings indicated that EC, EO and GBS directly influence the SMEs performance. Surprisingly, SMEs performance is not influenced by EN. Similarly, EE significantly moderated the relationship between EC, GBS and SMEs performance. On the contrary, EE does not have any moderating influence on the relationship between EO, EN and SMEs performance.Research limitations/implicationsThe study is limited to northeastern Nigeria. The study is limited to the EC, EO, EN GBS EE and SMEs performance and the use of cross-sectional data. The findings imply that SMEs owners/managers need a high level of entrepreneurial competencies and government business support to achieve a better performance especially in an external environment that is characterised by dynamism, diversity, complexity and hostility. Hence, providing support for both RBV and DCT.Practical implicationsThus, the study offers additional empirical evidence from Nigeria and also expands knowledge and understanding in this field. The findings offer owners/managers, government agencies, financial institutions and other stakeholders of SMEs strategies EC, EO, GBS and EE to achieve a better SMEs performance.Originality/valueThe conceptual framework of the study is unique, and the study was conducted in northeastern Nigeria which is grossly underrepresented in the literature. It also provided understanding on the moderating influence of EE on the framework.

The effects of coworkers' development idiosyncratic deals on employees' cooperation intention

Social Behavior and Personality An International Journal ◽

10.2224/sbp.10783 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 49 (11) ◽

pp. 1-12

Author(s):

Xiaoyan Zhang ◽

Wenbing Wu ◽

Yihua Zhang ◽

Hui Deng ◽

Yuanyuan Lan ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Social Comparison ◽

Positive Relationship ◽

Equity Theory ◽

Task Interdependence ◽

Idiosyncratic Deals ◽

Comparison Theory ◽

Negative Effect ◽

High Level ◽

The Relationship ◽

And Task

Idiosyncratic deals (i-deals) are individualized agreements of a nonstandard nature negotiated between employers and employees regarding employment terms, which are regarded as being beneficial for the organization. On the bases of social comparison theory and equity theory, we hypothesized that witnessing the development i-deals of their coworkers would trigger employees' feeling of unfairness, causing lower cooperation intention. We further hypothesized that perceived future i-deals and task interdependence would play moderating roles in this reduction. Participants were 284 employees in China. The results show that feelings of unfairness mediated the relationship between witnessing development i-deals and the witnesses' cooperation intention. The positive relationship between witnessing development i-deals and feelings of unfairness was weaker when employees perceived a stronger possibility of themselves obtaining a future i-deal, and a high level of task interdependence weakened the negative effect of feelings of unfairness on employees' cooperation intention.

Relationship Between Word of Mouth (WOM) Communication and Brand Equity of Sport Products Among Consumers in Kuantan, Pahang

International Journal of Social Sciences and Management ◽

10.3126/ijssm.v6i2.23545 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 6 (2) ◽

pp. 28-34

Author(s):

Rozita Abdul Latif ◽

Norlina Ramli ◽

Aishah Nadirah Mohamed Alauddin

Keyword(s):

Brand Equity ◽

Positive Relationship ◽

Word Of Mouth ◽

Perceived Quality ◽

Significant Positive Relationship ◽

R Value ◽

High Level ◽

Study Participants ◽

The main purpose of this study was to determine the relationship between word of mouth (WOM) communication and brand equity of sport products among consumers in Kuantan, Pahang. Four hundred and sixty-one consumers from Kuantan, Pahang participated in the study. Participants completed WOM communication questionnaires originally designed by Uslu et al. (2013), and the brand equity questionnaire originally designed by Yoo and Donthu (2001) and Lassar et al. (1995). The results showed high level of WOM communication of mean of 3.56 and (SD= .72) and the brand equity dimensions indicated highest mean on “perceived quality” 3.73 with (SD= .63). The r-value was (p<.487) and it indicated a significant positive relationship between WOM communication and brand equity. The findings of the study provide theory and understanding for marketers in influencing consumers to have positive WOM communication and brand equity towards sports brands. Int. J. Soc. Sc. Manage. Vol. 6, Issue-2: 28-34

Entrepreneurial Orientation, Resource Orchestration Capability, Environmental Dynamics and Firm Performance: A Test of Three-Way Interaction

Sustainability ◽

10.3390/su12135415 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 12 (13) ◽

pp. 5415

Author(s):

Suk Bong Choi ◽

Wang Ro Lee ◽

Seung-Wan Kang

Keyword(s):

Firm Performance ◽

Interaction Model ◽

Positive Association ◽

Service Firms ◽

High Resource ◽

Resource Orchestration ◽

High Level ◽

The Relationship ◽

Practical Implications

This study investigated the effect of entrepreneurial orientation on firm performance with the firm resource orchestration capability and environmental dynamics in moderating roles. Using survey data collected from 301 Korean manufacturing and service firms, we devised a three-way interaction model to uncover the complex and dynamic conditions that maximize the effect of entrepreneurial orientation on firm performance. We found a positive association between entrepreneurial orientation and firm performance. Moreover, our findings indicated that both the firm resource orchestration capability and environmental dynamics played positive moderating roles in the above relationship. The results also showed that, in the case of a high level of environmental dynamics, entrepreneurial orientation was more positively related to firm performance for firms with a high resource orchestration capability. In addition, in the case of low resource orchestration capability, entrepreneurial orientation was associated more positively with firm performance for firms with high environmental dynamics. Thus, this study confirmed the importance of interaction between the three factors for enhancing firm performance. Furthermore, our investigation of substantial moderators provided key insights regarding the conditions that better explain how entrepreneurial orientation promotes firm performance. In addition to two-way interaction, the support for a three-way interaction suggests that moderators of the relationship interact to further explain the relationship. The theoretical and practical implications are discussed.