Exploring an Inverted U–Shape Relationship between Entrepreneurial Orientation and Performance in Chinese Ventures

By Jintong Tang, Zhi Tang, Louis D. Marino, Yuli Zhang, Qianwen Li. 2007

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Subfields: Accounting, Management of Technology and Innovation, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management

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Entrepreneurial orientation: A review and synthesis of promising research directions (2016, background): “The notion of non-linearity and diminishing returns to increases in EO within certain contexts has been recently examined in the EO literature with important results (Su et al., 2011; Tang et al., 2008; Wales et al., 2013d).”
Entrepreneurial Orientation, Firm Performance, and the Moderating Role of Transformational Leadership Behaviors (2015, background): “For example, Tang et al. (2008) contend that EO may not always be effective outside the United States.”
Entrepreneurial Orientation and Firm Performance: The Unique Impact of Innovativeness, Proactiveness, and Risk-taking (2010, background): “This may help to explain some of the mixed findings on the EO-performance relationship, such as the curvilinear relationship between EO and performance found by Tang et al. (2008).”
Entrepreneurial orientation and firm performance in Indian SMEs: Universal and contingency perspectives (2016, result): “Furthermore, EO research conducted within China has also yielded mixed results, with evidence indicating that the direct relationship between EO and firm performance in Chinese firms is positively linear (Tang et al., 2007), curvilinear inverted U-shaped (Tang et al., 2008), or non-existent (Zhao et”
What really happens to small and medium-sized enterprises in a global economic recession? UK evidence on sales and job dynamics (2015, unknown): “Whilst most studies on EO is focused on developed countries especially the US, the same relationship is often not found in emerging economies (e.g., Tang et al., 2008; Wang, 2008).”
Nonlinear Effects of Entrepreneurial Orientation on Small Firm Performance: The Moderating Role of Resource Orchestration Capabilities (2013, methodology): “Although previous research suggests that the EO-performance relationship may be subject to diminishing returns in certain industrial environmental contexts (Su, Xie, and Li, 2011a; Tang et al., 2008), this study represents a starting point in examining potential curvilinearity in the small firm cont”