Disaggregating entrepreneurial orientation: the non-linear impact of innovativeness, proactiveness and risk-taking on SME performance
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...For example, innovativeness involves upfront investments (Kreiser et al., 2013), proactiveness entails high search, learning, and retaliation costs (Bell, 1995), and risk-taking requires greater slack for potential losses (Shrader et al., 2000)....
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...Our results are also complementary to those found in Kreiser et al. (2013), who showed that in small firms, innovativeness and proactiveness displayed positive U-shaped relationships with SME perceived sales growth, while risk-taking assumed a predominantly negative U-shaped relationship....
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...…example, the extent of trial and error that underlies innovation has the potential to limit the ability of firms to meet short-term financial obligations (Kreiser et al., 2013), and in turn drain resources from other value-creating activities critical to venturing abroad (Rosenbusch et al., 2011)....
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...Indeed, potentially diminishing returns have been found to characterize the entrepreneurial orientation dimensions (Kreiser et al., 2013 and Wales et al., 2013)....
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...November, 2017 987 EO, but there is initial evidence for possibly nonlinear effects of the dimensions of EO on firm performance (cf. Tang et al., 2008; Wales, Patel, Parida, & Kreiser, 2013; Kreiser et al., 2013)....
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...First, focusing on linear effects is quite common in research conducted on EO, but there is initial evidence for possibly non-linear effects of the dimensions of EO on firm performance (cf. Tang et al., 2008; Wales, Patel, Parida, & Kreiser, 2013b; Kreiser et al., 2013)....
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...We employed the eightitem version of the instrument with responses from one to five, which has been used in several studies before (e.g., Kreiser et al., 2002; Tang, Tang, Marino, Zhang, & Li, 2008; Kreiser et al., 2013)....
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...Consistent with the majority of the extant EO research, we consider EO to encompass three dimensions, namely innovativeness, proactiveness, and risk taking (cf. Kreiser et al., 2013; see also the recent literature reviews by Wales, Gupta, et al. and Wales, 2016)....
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...We employed the eight-item version of the instrument with responses from one to five, which has been used in several studies before (e.g., Kreiser et al., 2002; Tang et al., 2008; Kreiser et al., 2013)....
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