Individual and team entrepreneurial orientation: Scale development and configurations for success

By Jeffrey G. Covin, J. Rigtering, Mathew Hughes, Sascha Kraus, Cheng-Feng Cheng, Ricarda B. Bouncken. 2020

255 citations recorded by the source corpus.

While entrepreneurial orientation (EO) has traditionally been defined and operationalized as a firm-level phenomenon, recent studies extended the construct to the individual-level (IEO). We theorize how teams might draw on the EO of their individual members, forming what we call Team EO, and pose that EO will manifest in corollary attitudes and behaviors among employees to enable its organizational pervasiveness. Building on social exchange theory, theories of organizational citizenship and extra-role behavior, we conceive and explore how risk-taking, proactiveness, and innovativeness within a team, in conjunction with its trust in the manager and commitment to company goals, affect performance. Results from an fsQCA analysis with 71 teams from a large service-sector company show that proactiveness and innovativeness serve as substitutes and need to be combined with a commitment to company goals to achieve high performance.

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

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/932b86a345763423f53371f21904566788e522b5

How researchers see this paper

The researchers whose trusted networks rank it highest, strongest advocate first. Every researcher gets a different order.

In Management of Technology and Innovation

1. Robert J. Pidduck
2. Daniel R. Clark
3. G. Lumpkin
4. W. Wales
5. P. Ganotakis
6. Sascha Kraus

In Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management

1. Robert J. Pidduck
2. S. Naz
3. Daniel R. Clark
4. G. Lumpkin
5. W. Wales

In Strategy and Management

1. S. Naz
2. G. Lumpkin

Citations in the corpus

• Entrepreneurial mindset: Dispositional beliefs, opportunity beliefs, and entrepreneurial behavior (2021, background): “Although prior EO literature is dominated by firm-level analyses (White et al., 2021), we draw attention to the increasingly universal applications of EO by researchers and its substantial applicability to the individual-level analysis of entrepreneurship (for example, Covin et al., 2020).”
• Linking Entrepreneurial Orientation with Innovation Performance in SMEs; the Role of Organizational Commitment and Transformational Leadership Using Smart PLS-SEM (2021, background): “The same is found by Covin, Rigtering [55] in their study where entrepreneurial orientation and organizational commitment, jointly engendered, improved innovation performance.”