Managerial ties and firm performance in an emerging economy: Tests of the mediating and moderating effects

Wang, Gang; Jiang, Xu; Yuan, Changhong; Yi, Yaqun

doi:10.1007/s10490-011-9254-8

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“…These weak and inefficient formal institutions can impose contradictory demands on new ventures [39], increase difficulties of identifying growth opportunities [11], create higher transaction costs [40], and make them difficult to survive, threatening their successful growth [29]. Business ties may help new ventures overcome this disadvantageous condition by completing market information, learning about competitors' behaviors, and identifying potential opportunities [29,41].…”

Section: Entrepreneurial Business Ties and New Venture Growthmentioning

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Entrepreneurial Business Ties and New Venture Growth: The Mediating Role of Resource Acquiring, Bundling and Leveraging

Wang

Jiang

2019

Sustainability

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Adopting insights from a resource management perspective, this study investigates how entrepreneurs utilize their business ties to promote new venture growth. We propose a multiple mediator model in which different resource management processes (i.e., resource acquiring, resource bundling, and resource leveraging) act as critical mediating mechanisms. We undertook a two-stage survey design, and collected data during the period from 2013 to 2016. Drawing on a longitudinal sample of 229 new ventures in China, we tested the hypotheses through the optimal scaling regression (OSR) analysis. We find empirical support for the mediated effects of entrepreneurial business ties via resource bundling and resource leveraging to promote new venture growth. However, our results find the mediating effect of resource acquiring non-significant. These findings will deepen understanding of the role of entrepreneurial business ties in the new venture growth process and expand resource management perspective into the entrepreneurial field.

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Entrepreneurial Business Ties and New Venture Growth: The Mediating Role of Resource Acquiring, Bundling and Leveraging

Wang

Jiang

2019

Sustainability

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“…There are certain reasons that may help to explain that entrepreneurial business ties may directly enhance new venture growth. First, business ties may help to overcome barriers to a new venture in resource acquisition, opportunities identification, lower transaction costs and expert opinions (Zhang et al 2017;Pache and Santos, 2010;Sobel and Coyne, 2011;Batjargal et al 2012;Wang et al 2013). Second, such business ties may help new venture to pursue their business legally or acquire legitimacy.…”

Section: Related Literature Entrepreneurial Business Ties and New Venmentioning

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“…Finally, we believe that testing multiple mediations simultaneously gives complete understanding about how business ties help new ventures growth. Wang et al (2013) explored only resource acquisition as a possible mediator that business ties used to help new ventures. However, Wang et al (2019) used all three resources i.e.…”

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A Multiple Mediation Analysis of the Growth in New Ventures

Rahman

Saeed

Afridi³

2019

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The objective of this study was finding the relationship between emotional intelligence and academic achievement. 384 students from secondary and high secondary school participated in this study. A significant relationship was found between academic achievement and Emotional Intelligence with the p-value = 0.01. The mean difference in emotional intelligence score of the students who secured high academic scores were found high. i.e. 58.57 as compared to the mean of emotional intelligence score of the students who secured low academic scores i.e. 56.93. A significant correlation was also found between Emotional Intelligence and academic scores(r=0.130). The results of the study suggest that higher emotional intelligence leads to better educational outcomes. An individual with a high level of Emotional Intelligence could have a strong, stable, and positive state of emotional well-being. Students who have a positive state of emotional wellbeing are more open to new experiences, which research has shown to lead to more learning.

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“…In addition, several studies investigate the relationship between managerial networking and organisational outcomes such as performance. For example, Li () finds support for a positive association between managerial networking and firm performance among foreign‐invested firms in China, and Wang et al () conclude that managerial ties are positively related to the performance of firms operating in China. In light of these arguments, we state our first hypothesis: Hypothesis 1: Subsidiary embeddedness is positively related to subsidiary performance . …”

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Does the Interactive Use of Headquarter Performance Measurement Systems in Foreign Subsidiaries Endanger the Potential to Profit from Local Relationships?

Schäffer

Mahlendorf

Rehring

2014

Australian Accounting Review

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Managing distant subsidiaries is a challenge for headquarters of multinational companies. Performance measurement systems (PMS) can assist in this task. Taking a business network perspective, we study the moderating effect of the interactive use of PMS implemented by headquarters at subsidiaries on the relationship between subsidiary embeddedness and subsidiary performance. We test our hypotheses using survey data from 110 subsidiary managers in China. The results suggest that the multinational network surrounding the subsidiary affects overall headquarter control possibilities. Specifically, while interactive use may be helpful in situations of low local embeddedness of the subsidiary, it seems to have negative side effects on the subsidiaries' ability to benefit from high local embeddedness.

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Managerial ties and firm performance in an emerging economy: Tests of the mediating and moderating effects

Cited by 72 publications

References 52 publications

Entrepreneurial Business Ties and New Venture Growth: The Mediating Role of Resource Acquiring, Bundling and Leveraging

Entrepreneurial Business Ties and New Venture Growth: The Mediating Role of Resource Acquiring, Bundling and Leveraging

A Multiple Mediation Analysis of the Growth in New Ventures

Does the Interactive Use of Headquarter Performance Measurement Systems in Foreign Subsidiaries Endanger the Potential to Profit from Local Relationships?

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