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The Relationship Between Social Legitimacy and Performance in Venture Businesses  

Park, Chan Woo (Graduate School, Chung-Ang University)
Choi, Chang Bum (College of Business & Economics, Chung-Ang University)
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Asia-Pacific Journal of Business Venturing and Entrepreneurship / v.16, no.5, 2021 , pp. 61-74 More about this Journal
Abstract
This study investigated the relationship between the social legitimacy and financial performance perceived for venture company. In particular, social legitimacy was classified into prior experiences, organizational competency, market-related, and government-related legitimacy according to the characteristics of venture businesses, and its effect on the financial and non-financial performance of venture businesses was verified. Data were collected by conducting a survey among 300 domestic venture businesses. According to the results it can be understood that social legitimacy affects the financial and non-financial performance of venture businesses. In other words, it was found that the acquisition of resources from external investors and governments which is justified by stakeholder and investors, venture business executives and employees' prior experience such as start-up experience, and retention of outstanding talent, etc., developing trust from the market and consumers through high organizational competency and differentiated product provision, have a positive effect on the financial and non-financial performance of venture companies. It can be interpreted that higher survival is possible through running the venture businesses with social legitimacy. In addition, this study is meaningful in that it presents a new standard for survival through measuring the relationship of the influence on substantial performance of venture businesses by expanding the existing sociological research to business management research.
Keywords
venture businesses; social legitimacy; financial performance; non-financial performance;
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