An Empirical Study on Entrepreneurial Orientation, Absorptive Capacity, and SMEs’ Innovation Performance: A Sustainable Perspective

By Yuming Zhai, Wan-Qin Sun, Sang-Bing Tsai, Zhen Wang, Yu Zhao, Quan Chen. 2018

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Using a survey of 324 small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) of the Yangtze River Delta in China, this study discusses the relationship between entrepreneurial orientation, absorptive capacity, environmental dynamism, and corporate technological innovation performance. The results based on a moderated moderation model show that the relationship between entrepreneurial orientation and innovation performance is significantly positive. The absorptive capacity can positively moderate this relationship. When the external environment is in high dynamism, the moderating effect of absorptive capacity will be stronger than when the environment is in low dynamism.

Subfields: Business and International Management, Management of Technology and Innovation, Marketing

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Citations in the corpus

• Linking Entrepreneurial Orientation with Innovation Performance in SMEs; the Role of Organizational Commitment and Transformational Leadership Using Smart PLS-SEM (2021, background): “This study validates that dimensions of entrepreneurial orientation such as innovativeness (SMEs willingness to support innovative ideas, experiments for product and service development and novel research and development), risk-taking (risk-taking capability to enter new markets and investment on ne”
• Big data analytics and artificial intelligence pathway to operational performance under the effects of entrepreneurial orientation and environmental dynamism: A study of manufacturing organisations (2020, background): “Scholars argue that technological innovation is not only the key success factor in global competitive markets but also plays an important role in the operations of an enterprise (see Lin et al., 2016; Zhai et al., 2018; Ivanov et al., 2018).”
• Impact of Entrepreneurial Orientation on Innovation Capability: The Mediating Role of Absorptive Capability and Organizational Learning Capabilities (2021, background): “Furthermore, high AC increases innovation activities and speed, developing new products and services responding to market opportunities [48].”