Entrepreneurial Orientation and Firm Performance in the Context of Upper Echelon Theory

Gali, N.; Hughes, M.; Mallet, O.; Karam, A.; Domenech, J.; Mas-Tur, A.; Roig-Tierno, N.; Vicente, M.R.

doi:10.4995/carma2016.2016.4355

Entrepreneurial Orientation and Firm Performance in the Context of Upper Echelon Theory

Gali, N.; Hughes, M.; Mallet, O.; Karam, A.; Domenech, J.; Mas-Tur, A.; Roig-Tierno, N.; Vicente, M.R.

Authors

N. Gali

M. Hughes

O. Mallet

A. Karam

J. Domenech

A. Mas-Tur

N. Roig-Tierno

M.R. Vicente

Abstract

Entrepreneurial Orientation (EO) is a firm-level phenomenon, which involves the firm’s prospects to take risks, be proactive, and be innovative. Most of the research assumes a positive EO-performance relationship adopting the EO-as-advantage perspective without providing enough theoretical foundations of the way EO enhances performance. This paper provides insights into the EO and firm performance relationship looking into the EO-as-experimentation perspective. Through EO-as-experimentation perspective, we argue for the importance of looking into the differential effects of each of the EO dimensions on firm performance in active and inactive firms. We hypothesized that the effect of each of the proactiveness and innovativeness dimension of EO on firm performance is positive among active firms and negative among inactive firms. Whereas risk taking dimension of EO is negative among active and inactive firms. Based on the results of firm fixed effect regression some empirical support for the hypotheses is presented and discussed.

Citation

Gali, N., Hughes, M., Mallet, O., Karam, A., Domenech, J., Mas-Tur, A., …Vicente, M. (2016). Entrepreneurial Orientation and Firm Performance in the Context of Upper Echelon Theory. In CARMA 2016 : 1st International Conference on Advanced Research Methods and Analytics, July 6 - 7, 2016, Valencia, Spain. https://doi.org/10.4995/carma2016.2016.4355

Conference Name	CARMA 2016 1st International Conference on Advanced Research Methods and Analytics.
Conference Location	Valencia, Spain
Start Date	Jul 6, 2016
End Date	Jul 7, 2016
Acceptance Date	Apr 18, 2016
Online Publication Date	Jul 6, 2016
Publication Date	Jul 6, 2016
Deposit Date	May 5, 2016
Publicly Available Date	May 12, 2016
Book Title	CARMA 2016 : 1st International Conference on Advanced Research Methods and Analytics, July 6 - 7, 2016, Valencia, Spain.
DOI	https://doi.org/10.4995/carma2016.2016.4355
Public URL	https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1151661
Additional Information	Conference date: 6-7 July 2016