Entrepreneurial Orientation versus Small Business Orientation: What Are Their Relationships to Firm Performance?

By Rodney C. Runyan, C. Droge, Jane L. Swinney. 2008

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

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Tourism Entrepreneurship Performance (2015, background): “Attempting to collect financial data (sales revenues, net profit, etc.) through surveys often results in item nonresponse and even questionnaire nonresponse due to business owners’ reluctance to disclose this type of information (Runyan, Droge, and Swinney 2008).”
How Does Financial Literacy Promote Sustainability in SMEs? A Developing Country Perspective (2019, background): “The owners of SMEs are often reluctant to provide the financial information needed to assess performance [98] and it is difficult to verify the accuracy of SMEs’ financial reports and data [99].”
Empirical research on entrepreneurial orientation: An assessment and suggestions for future research (2013, background): “…as corporate venturing and self-renewal (Antoncic and Hisrich, 2001), and small business orientation, which ‘encompasses the emotional relationship or attachment of the owner to the business’ (Runyan et al., 2008), EO pertains to the strategic posture of the firm as a whole (Basso et al., 2009).”
Success Traps, Dynamic Capabilities and Firm Performance (2015, neutral): “The difficulty of obtaining objective data for SMEs is well acknowledged (Dess and Robinson, 1984; Runyan, Droge, and Swinney, 2008), especially financial data (Stadler et al., 2013).”
The entrepreneurial orientation–performance relationship in private family firms: the moderating role of socioemotional wealth (2014, background): “2006), longevity (Runyan et al. 2008), senior team attributes (Van Doorn and Volberda 2009), and internal social exchange processes (De Clercq et al.”
The Long‐Term Impact of Entrepreneurial Self‐Efficacy and Entrepreneurial Orientation on Venture Performance (2019, background): “For example, Runyan, Droge, and Swinney (2008) reported that younger firms embracing an EO outperformed more established firms but their cross-sectional data collected from a sample of new ventures included firms up to 11 years old.”
Organizational learning, entrepreneurial orientation, and the role of university engagement in SMEs (2016, background): “Hence, EO has been conceptualized as a key strategic resource in prior studies (e.g. Javalgi and Martin, 2007; Runyan et al., 2008).”