Does the CEO matter? An empirical study of small Swedish firms operating in turbulent environments

Westerberg, Mats; Singh, Jagdip; Häckner, Einar

doi:10.1016/s0956-5221(97)00011-0

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“…Tolerance of ambiguity: Four items initially proposed by Lorsch and Morse (1974) and adapted by Westerberg, Singh, and Hackner (1997) and Acedo and Jones (2007) were used to test tolerance for ambiguity. Acedo and Jones (2007) report a 0.76 composite reliability for the measure.…”

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confidence: 99%

Tourism students’ entrepreneurial intentions

Gürel

Altınay

Daniele

2010

Annals of Tourism Research

226

167

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This study aims to investigate the relationship between entrepreneurial traits, socio-cultural background and entrepreneurial intention of university students in the UK and Turkey. 409 tourism students were surveyed to measure entrepreneurial intention, entrepreneurial traits including risk-taking propensity, innovativeness, tolerance of ambiguity and locus of control and socio-cultural factors. The findings indicate that there is a statistically significant relationship between innovation, propensity to take risks, entrepreneurial family and entrepreneurial intention. Education does not seem to play an important role in fostering entrepreneurial traits and intentions of university students.

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Section: Study Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Tourism students’ entrepreneurial intentions

Gürel

Altınay

Daniele

2010

Annals of Tourism Research

226

167

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“…It has been argued that, when studying new relations (exploratory study), such as in this case, it is advisable to focus on a limited context to control contingencies. According to Westerberg, Singh, and Häckner (1997), such a focus would make the data less vulnerable to the effects of uncontrolled variables because sample firms are from a common environment. Nevertheless, further evidence from large multinational firms would be useful.…”

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Non-linear relationship between industrial service offering and sales growth: The moderating role of network capabilities

Kohtamäki

Partanen

Parida

et al. 2013

Industrial Marketing Management

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In an effort to approach the mixed findings regarding the relationship between a firm's industrial service offering and its performance, this study analyzes the impact of the industrial service offering on sales growth and the moderating role of network capabilities. The proposed research model is tested based on data from 91 Finnish manufacturing firms. Our results demonstrate a non-linear effect of the service offering on sales growth. We also find that network capabilities enhance the effect of the service offering on sales growth. For managers of manufacturing firms, the results imply that the active development of a comprehensive service offering should be implemented in conjunction with the development of organizational capabilities, such as network capabilities, to create value and promote improved performance.

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“…The AT concept has been applied in numerous related studies, such as the following areas of research: psychometrics (Furnham & Ribchester, 1995;McLain, 1993), situational perception and decision making (McLain, 2009;Yurtsever, 2001), sociological variables (Hofstede, 1984), anxiety (Birrell, Meares, Wilkinson, & Freeston, 2011;Ladouceur, Gosselin, & Dugas, 2000), correlational studies in curiosity (Litman, 2010), ethical norms (Weisbrod, 2009), openness (Bardi, Guerra, & Ramdeny, 2009;Caligiuri & Tarique, 2012;Rajagopal & Hamouz, 2009), cultural phenomena (Abbe et al, 2007;Caligiuri & Tarique, 2012;Tapanes, Smith, & White, 2009), decision making (Iyer, McBride, & Reckers, 2012), worry (Buhr & Dugas, 2006), safety competencies (Ironside, Jeffries, & Martin, 2009), identity conflict (Leong & Ward, 2000), thinking styles (Ie, Haller, Langer, & Courvoisier, 2012), financial performance (Westerberg, Singh, & Hackner, 1997), and novelty (Rajagopal & Hamouz, 2009) (for detailed reviews, see Furnham & Marks, 2013). AT has attracted considerable attention in research fields, and a considerable number of studies have explored various aspects of AT.…”

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A Study of Interactions among Ambiguity Tolerance, Classroom Work Styles, and English Proficiency

Chiang¹

2016

ELT

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This article presents a preliminary investigation of the inter-relationships between English learners' tolerance for ambiguity, their classroom work styles, and their level of English proficiency. The study population comprised 46 English as a foreign language (EFL) students attending a technical college in Taiwan. The findings indicated that a large percentage of these students had moderate to high levels of tolerance for ambiguity. In contrast to the findings of previous studies, our results showed no significant relationship between ambiguity tolerance and classroom work styles. The relationship between ambiguity tolerance and English proficiency in terms of the Test of English for International Communication (TOEIC) scores was almost statistically significant. However, tolerance for ambiguity and classroom work styles showed a statistically significant association with English proficiency. Recommended extensions of the study are discussed, and general directions for future research are suggested. Teaching implementations are also proposed.

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Does the CEO matter? An empirical study of small Swedish firms operating in turbulent environments

Cited by 74 publications

References 34 publications

Tourism students’ entrepreneurial intentions

Tourism students’ entrepreneurial intentions

Non-linear relationship between industrial service offering and sales growth: The moderating role of network capabilities

A Study of Interactions among Ambiguity Tolerance, Classroom Work Styles, and English Proficiency

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