The impact of scholars’ guanxi networks on entrepreneurial performance—The mediating effect of resource acquisition

2019 ◽  
Vol 521 ◽  
pp. 9-17 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wei Ju ◽  
Xiaohu Zhou ◽  
Shuaibin Wang
Keyword(s):  
Mediating Effect ◽  
Resource Acquisition ◽  
Entrepreneurial Performance ◽  
Guanxi Networks ◽  
The Impact

scholarly journals Openness and Entrepreneurial Performance During COVID-19 Pandemic: Strategic Decision Comprehensiveness as an Inconsistent Mediator

2022 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Weiqi Mu ◽  
Jie Xu ◽  
Fugui Li ◽  
Siying Li ◽  
Xue Li ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Positive Impact ◽  
Mediating Effect ◽  
Strategic Decision ◽  
Practical Significance ◽  
Big Five Personality ◽  
Information Uncertainty ◽  
Strategic Decisions ◽  
Online Questionnaire ◽  
Entrepreneurial Performance ◽  
The Impact

The COVID-19 pandemic severely hit small and micro-businesses. In the face of the impact of the pandemic, how to help entrepreneurs, especially small- and micro-businesses that are more sensitive to the impact of the pandemic, make decisions to reduce losses has become an issue worth paying attention to. From the perspective of personality approach, this article studied openness, which is the strongest predictor of entrepreneurial performance among the big five personality traits, and explored the impact of entrepreneurs’ openness on entrepreneurial performance during the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as the inconsistent mediating role of strategic decision comprehensiveness on entrepreneurial performance. An online questionnaire survey was conducted among 238 entrepreneurs of small- and micro-businesses when China was recovering from the pandemic and starting to resume work and production (February 18 – February 26, 2020). Entrepreneurial performance during the COVID-19 pandemic was measured by comparing the business conditions before and after the pandemic. The results showed that entrepreneurs’ openness positively impacted strategic decision comprehensiveness and entrepreneurial performance during the COVID-19 pandemic. Among the two competing hypotheses proposed by summarizing previous research, the results supported that strategic decision comprehensiveness negatively affected entrepreneurial performance. It indicated that entrepreneurs who tend to collect and analyze information extensively and then make decisions during the pandemic could not seize opportunities and improve their entrepreneurial performance. The results further supported that strategic decision comprehensiveness was an inconsistent mediator between openness and entrepreneurial performance, showing that entrepreneurs with low openness can also reduce the loss of entrepreneurial performance during the pandemic by making incomplete but rapid strategic decisions. This study found that the openness of entrepreneurs had a positive impact on strategic decision comprehensiveness for the first time and provided more empirical evidence for the negative effect of strategic decision comprehensiveness on entrepreneurial performance in the context of information uncertainty and unanalyzable situations. The inconsistent mediating effect of strategic decision comprehensiveness revealed in this study also has practical significance for helping entrepreneurs make correct decisions to reduce the losses caused by the pandemic.

An Empirical Study on the Impact of Team Entrepreneurship Passion on the Tobacco Products Entrepreneurial Performance of New Ventures: Mediating Effect Test Based on Bootstrap Model

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (5) ◽  
pp. 2373-2384
Author(s):  
Shen Yuyan ◽  
Ke Limin ◽  
Yan Qian
Keyword(s):  
New Ventures ◽  
Mediating Effect ◽  
Tobacco Products ◽  
Entrepreneurial Learning ◽  
Entrepreneurial Performance ◽  
Entrepreneurial Passion ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Entrepreneurial Team ◽  
Bootstrap Model ◽  
The Impact

In this paper, following the research logic of Emotion/Feature-Behavior-Result, the focus is put on how the entrepreneurial passion of interactive-oriented teams in the tobacco products entrepreneurial can improve corporate performance by affecting entrepreneurial learning. The multiple regression method is used to test 238 valid questionnaires of new ventures, and the Bootstrap model is used to verify the mediating effect of entrepreneurial learning according to the multiple mediating effect analysis method proposed by scholars. The results show that: (1) The entrepreneurial passion of the team will affect the tobacco products entrepreneurial process of the new venture team, and the team with high passion atmosphere is more likely to improve the performance of the new enterprise. As a strong positive emotion experienced by the entrepreneurial team in their entrepreneurial activities, can not only influence the entrepreneurial team to identify with their entrepreneurial identity sharing, but also promote the growth of enterprises. (2) There is a significant mediating effect of exploratory learning and exploitative learning in the process of the impact of team entrepreneurial passion on the performance of the innovator but no significant difference in the mediating effects of the two. Entrepreneurial passion drives the tobacco products entrepreneurs to make a strong emotional commitment to the new innovator and invest much effort, and entrepreneurial learning is an effective way to help solve the problem of the new innovator. The research results can help to further interpret the mechanism of the role of the tobacco products entrepreneurial enthusiasm on the performance of innovators, expand the mediating factors between the two from psychological to behavioral factors, enrich the research on the performance promotion mechanism of new innovators, promote the organization learning behavior combined with entrepreneurship research, and also provide references and suggestions for the tobacco products entrepreneurs to improve their entrepreneurial performance through learning behaviors.

Mediating Effect of Organizational Commitment Between Islamic Human Resource Practices and Organizational Performance Among Islamic Banks of Bangladesh

2018 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 54-65
Author(s):  
Bablu Kumar Dhar ◽  
Rosnia Masruki ◽  
Mahazan Mutalib ◽  
Hatem Mohammed Rahouma ◽  
Farid A. Sobhani ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Commitment ◽  
Organizational Performance ◽  
Human Resource ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Stock Exchange ◽  
Reliability And Validity ◽  
Mediating Effect ◽  
Islamic Banks ◽  
Hr Practices ◽  
The Impact

This paper aims at exploring the impact of Islamic human resource (HR) practices on organizational performance though organizational commitment. Data were collected from randomly selected 170 branch managers of six Islamic Banks listed on Dhaka Stock Exchange of Bangladesh. After collecting data, descriptive analysis and structural equation model were done to examine reliability and validity of the model. By analysis, the study finds that Islamic HR practices have more significant impact on organizational performance though organizational commitment rather than the direct effect of Islamic HR practices to organizational performance. The findings of the study advocate that Islamic banks should emphasize more on Islamic HR practices and organizational commitment to uphold their organizational performance.

Test of Mediation and Moderation between Employee Empathy and Customers’ Advocacy

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sajjad Ahmad Afridi ◽  
Asad Shahjehan ◽  
Maqsood Haider ◽  
Dr Uzma Munawar
Keyword(s):  
Factor Analysis ◽  
Customer Loyalty ◽  
Service Sector ◽  
Mediating Effect ◽  
First Line ◽  
Private Hospitals ◽  
Proposed Model ◽  
Confirmatory Factor ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Significant Moderator

This study examined the impact of employee empathy on customers’ advocacy directly and indirectly through customers’ loyalty. Moreover, the interacting effect of customers’ trust was verified between the association of customers’ loyalty and advocacy. The attributes of the proposed model were examined in the context of first line employee and patients’ interactions. A total of 220 responses were collected for analysis from the private hospitals of Peshawar. The model fitness was confirmed through confirmatory factor analysis and hypotheses were examined. Findings confirmed the positive and significant impact of employee empathy on customers’ advocacy. Further, the mediating effect was examined and found that loyalty partially mediates employee empathy and customers’ advocacy. Additionally, trust was found a significant moderator between the association of customer loyalty and advocacy. Furthermore, findings revealed that trust based loyalty significantly and positively mediates employee empathy and customers’ advocacy. Findings of the present study provide understanding for the service sector, particularly in healthcare, to enhance customers’ loyalty, advocacy, and trust through service employee’s empathic aptitude. Keywords: Employee empathy, Service Eco-system, Customers’ Loyalty, Customers’ Advocacy, Trust-Based Loyalty, Healthcare, S-D Logic

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