The mediating role of entrepreneurial orientation in the task-environment-performance relationship: a meta-analysis
Rosenbusch, Nina; Rauch, Andreas; Bausch, Andreas
Date: 16 November 2011
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Journal of Management
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SAGE Publications
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Abstract
Despite the importance of the external task environment for firm performance little is known about the mechanisms that enable firms to benefit from a specific environmental setting. We argue that firms adjust their entrepreneurial orientation (EO) to the external environment and use it as a mechanism to transform the advantages provided ...
Despite the importance of the external task environment for firm performance little is known about the mechanisms that enable firms to benefit from a specific environmental setting. We argue that firms adjust their entrepreneurial orientation (EO) to the external environment and use it as a mechanism to transform the advantages provided by the environment into above-average performance levels. Specifically, we use meta-analysis supplemented by structural equation modeling to explore the links between environmental munificence, hostility, dynamism and complexity, EO, and firm performance in a mediation model. Our results suggest that environmental munificence, dynamism and complexity affect EO and, in turn, firm performance. We discuss our meta-analytical findings with respect to their theoretical contribution and their practical implications.
Management
Faculty of Environment, Science and Economy
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