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Entrepreneurial strategy making, resources, and firm performance: evidence from China

verfasst von: Zhongfeng Su, En Xie, Dong Wang, Yuan Li

Erschienen in: Small Business Economics | Ausgabe 2/2011

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This article builds a model to answer a critical but unsolved research question: What are the resources and/or the resource portfolio firms need to achieve the performance implications of entrepreneurial strategy making (ESM)? Based on a survey of Chinese firms, we find that ESM has a significant positive influence on firm performance. In addition, to accomplish the performance implications of ESM, firms need both flexible employed resources and unabsorbed slack, while just one of them does not work. Thus, a resource portfolio composed of high flexible employed resources and unabsorbed slack is the appropriate one to achieve the value of ESM.

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Titel: Entrepreneurial strategy making, resources, and firm performance: evidence from China
verfasst von: Zhongfeng Su
En Xie
Dong Wang
Yuan Li
Publikationsdatum: 01.02.2011
Verlag: Springer US
Erschienen in: Small Business Economics / Ausgabe 2/2011
Print ISSN: 0921-898X
Elektronische ISSN: 1573-0913
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11187-009-9211-9

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