Samuel Adomako

TL;DR: In this article, the authors draw on natural resource-based theory to introduce competitive strategies as moderators in the ESO-performance nexus, and find that firms pursuing the differentiation strategy can positively boost performance outcomes with ESO than without differentiation strategy.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined how and when EO enhances new venture performance by considering ESO as mediator and stakeholder integration as an important contingent factor, and found that the indirect relationship between EO and new-venture performance is strengthened at high levels of stakeholder involvement.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors draw on resource-based view to introduce financial literacy as a moderator of the relationship between access to finance and firm growth, and empirically test the theoretically derived research model is empirically tested using survey data from 201 small and medium-sized enterprises in Ghana.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that variations in new venture performance are a function of levels of entrepreneurial alertness and networking capabilities, and that under conditions of increased use of social and business networking capabilities the potency of entrepreneur alertness as a driver of new venture success is amplified.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors found empirical support for their contention that the link between stakeholder integration and financial performance is mediated by a firm's environmental sustainability orientation (ESO), and they also demonstrated that competitive intensity moderates the indirect relationship between stake-holder integration, in such a way that the indirect effect through environmental sustainability orientations is stronger for higher levels of industry competition.