TY - JOUR
T1 - Entrepreneurial orientation dimensions and the performance of high-tech and low-tech firms
T2 - A configurational approach
AU - Huang, Shuangfa
AU - Huang, Qihai
AU - Soetanto, Danny
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 72032007 and 71810107002 ).
Publisher Copyright:
© 2022
PY - 2023/6/1
Y1 - 2023/6/1
N2 - Building on the entrepreneurial orientation (EO)-as-experimentation perspective, we examine how configurations of the EO dimensions (innovativeness, risk-taking, and proactiveness) might lead to high and low firm performance, and how the configurations differ under different firm contexts. We adopted a configurational approach and applied fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA) to a sample of 110 UK small and medium-sized enterprises. Our findings show that three (four) configurations can result in high (low)-firm performance, demonstrating that the EO dimensions can contribute to as well as hinder firm performance. Moreover, the configurations leading to the same outcome are distinct between high-tech and low-tech firms, indicating that the impacts of the EO dimensions on firm performance depend on the firm context. Our findings offer useful insights for managers on how to configure the portfolio of firms' entrepreneurial activities to achieve superior performance.
AB - Building on the entrepreneurial orientation (EO)-as-experimentation perspective, we examine how configurations of the EO dimensions (innovativeness, risk-taking, and proactiveness) might lead to high and low firm performance, and how the configurations differ under different firm contexts. We adopted a configurational approach and applied fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA) to a sample of 110 UK small and medium-sized enterprises. Our findings show that three (four) configurations can result in high (low)-firm performance, demonstrating that the EO dimensions can contribute to as well as hinder firm performance. Moreover, the configurations leading to the same outcome are distinct between high-tech and low-tech firms, indicating that the impacts of the EO dimensions on firm performance depend on the firm context. Our findings offer useful insights for managers on how to configure the portfolio of firms' entrepreneurial activities to achieve superior performance.
KW - Entrepreneurial orientation
KW - Configurational approach
KW - Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs)
KW - Firm performance
KW - fsQCA
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U2 - 10.1016/j.emj.2022.03.002
DO - 10.1016/j.emj.2022.03.002
M3 - Article
VL - 41
SP - 375
EP - 384
JO - European Management Journal
JF - European Management Journal
SN - 0263-2373
IS - 3
ER -
