The Curvilinear Relationship Between Team Identification and New Venture Performance

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 (1) ◽  
pp. 12535
Author(s):  
Hao Ji ◽  
Wencang Zhou
Keyword(s):  
New Venture ◽  
Curvilinear Relationship ◽  
Team Identification ◽  
Venture Performance ◽  
New Venture Performance

The Curvilinear Relationship Between Collective Team Identification and New Venture Performance: The Moderating Effect of Environmental Uncertainty

2021 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Hao Ji ◽  
Wencang Zhou
Keyword(s):  
New Ventures ◽  
Environmental Uncertainty ◽  
Internet Technology ◽  
New Venture ◽  
Curvilinear Relationship ◽  
Team Identification ◽  
Venture Performance ◽  
High Level ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
New Venture Performance

Abstract Many new ventures are founded and developed by teams rather than solo entrepreneurs. Therefore, the extent to which entrepreneurs identify with their teams is likely to have an important impact on the process and outcome of new venture creation in new venture teams. However, most of the relevant studies focus on entrepreneurs’ individual identity, and the identity at the team level has been overlooked. This study seeks to fill this gap by exploring the effect of collective team identification on new venture performance. The relationship between collective team identification and new venture performance was examined using a sample of 54 new venture teams in Internet Technology (IT) industry. The results show that the relationship between collective team identification and new venture performance is inverted U-shaped. Moreover, environmental uncertainty may moderate this curvilinear effect, such that this inverted U-shaped relationship is more salient at a low level of environmental uncertainty rather than at a high level of environmental uncertainty.

The Role of Entrepreneurs’ Empathy in New Venture Performance: The Mediating Effects of Entrepreneurial Orientation

2021 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Wenhong Zhao ◽  
Siyao Lyu ◽  
Tomoki Sekiguchi
Keyword(s):  
Perspective Taking ◽  
Entrepreneurial Orientation ◽  
New Ventures ◽  
Empathic Concern ◽  
New Venture ◽  
Curvilinear Relationship ◽  
Mediating Effects ◽  
Firm Level ◽  
Venture Performance ◽  
New Venture Performance

Abstract Previous research has found that entrepreneurs’ empathy promotes personal opportunity identification. However, the role that entrepreneurs’ empathy plays at the firm level in new ventures is still unclear. This study explores this question by investigating how perspective taking and empathic concern, which respectively represent the cognitive and affective component of entrepreneurs’ empathy, influence new venture performance with the mediating effects of entrepreneurial orientation (EO). Based on an empirical study with 341 new ventures, this research finds a positive relationship between perspective taking and new venture performance and a curvilinear relationship between empathic concern and new venture performance. In addition, both of these relationships are mediated by EO. This study sheds light on distinct impacts of the entrepreneur’s perspective taking and empathic concern at the firm level, enriches the antecedents of EO from the cognitive and affective factors of the entrepreneur, and extends the implications of the entrepreneur’s altruistic dispositions in commercial start-ups.

scholarly journals Entrepreneurial alertness and new venture performance: Facilitating roles of networking capability

2018 ◽  
Vol 36 (5) ◽  
pp. 453-472 ◽  
Author(s):  
Samuel Adomako ◽  
Albert Danso ◽  
Nathaniel Boso ◽  
Bedman Narteh
Keyword(s):  
New Ventures ◽  
Policy Implications ◽  
New Venture ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
Entrepreneurial Alertness ◽  
Venture Performance ◽  
Ability To Act ◽  
Business Networking ◽  
Sub Saharan ◽  
New Venture Performance

An ability to act upon an entrepreneurial opportunity is a major driver of new venture success. However, scholarly knowledge is limited on how and when entrepreneur alertness to entrepreneurial opportunities drives new venture success. This article addresses this gap arguing that variations in new venture performance are a function of levels of entrepreneurial alertness and networking capabilities. Using primary data gathered from 203 new ventures operating in a sub-Saharan African economy, Ghana, we find that increases in the levels of entrepreneurial alertness are related to increases in new venture performance. Additionally, we find that, under conditions of increased use of social and business networking capabilities, the potency of entrepreneurial alertness as a driver of new venture success is amplified. Theoretical, managerial and policy implications of these findings are discussed.

Incubator networks and new venture performance: the roles of entrepreneurial orientation and environmental dynamism

2020 ◽  
Vol 27 (5) ◽  
pp. 727-747
Author(s):  
Wenqing Wu ◽  
Hongxin Wang ◽  
Fu-Sheng Tsai
Keyword(s):  
Entrepreneurial Orientation ◽  
New Ventures ◽  
Mediating Effect ◽  
New Venture ◽  
Environmental Dynamism ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Venture Performance ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Moderating Role ◽  
New Venture Performance

PurposeThis study analyses the relationship between the networks of business incubators (BIs) and new venture performance. It proposes an integrated model for identifying the influence of BIs' internal and external networks on new venture performance through the entrepreneurial orientation (EO) and environmental dynamism.Design/methodology/approachThe study uses multiple regression analysis on a sample of 205 new ventures in Chinese BIs.FindingsBoth the internal and external networks of BIs positively affect new venture performance and EO has a mediating effect in this relationship. Environmental dynamism plays a positive moderating role in the relationship between BIs' internal and external networks and EO.Practical implicationsBased on the results of this study, incubator managers should focus on creating internal and external networks and leveraging network embeddedness to influence new venture performance. Further, new ventures should focus on strengthening their EO and fully consider the impact of environmental dynamism on EO implementation.Originality/valueTo address the research gaps in understanding how BI networks can support new venture growth, this study integrates BIs' internal and external networks and explores their impacts on new venture performance using co-production theory and the resource-based view. It thus opens the black box on how BI's networks affect performance from the EO perspective. Moreover, this study fully clarifies chain relationships by identifying and analysing the moderating role of environmental dynamism.

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