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Impact of Entrepreneurial Orientation on Small- and Medium-sized Enterprises' Entrepreneurial Performance: The Mediating Role of Entrepreneurial Knowledge Position  

Kim, Jinyoung (Korea University Business School)
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Asia-Pacific Journal of Business Venturing and Entrepreneurship / v.14, no.2, 2019 , pp. 83-93 More about this Journal
Abstract
Responding to the prior studies' call for further investigating the relationship between entrepreneurial orientation and firm performance, this study proposes a partially mediated model of entrepreneurial orientation, entrepreneurial knowledge position, and firm performance. Survey responses from 3,324 small- and medium-enterprises in South Korea are analyzed to identify a partially mediating role of an organization's entrepreneurial knowledge position. A firm's innovativeness both directly affects its innovation performance and knowledge position in positive ways. On the other hand, risk-taking firms only positively affects knowledge position, whereas a firm's proactiveness positively affects its performance while negatively affecting its entrepreneurial knowledge position. Neither autonomy nor competitiveness show any statistically significant relationships to either entrepreneurial knowledge position or firm performance. A firm's knowledge position is strongly and positively related to its performance. The findings of this study contributes to the research stream of entrepreneurial orientation by delineating the partially mediating role of a firm's knowledge position.
Keywords
Entrepreneurial Orientation; Entrepreneurial Knowledge Position; Entrepreneurial Performance;
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