Revisiting the Mediating Effect of Entrepreneurial Behaviour onn Proactiveness - Performance Relationship: The Role of Business Ties andn Competitive Intensity

摘要

Drawing on previous literature proposing that entrepreneurial orientation (EO) - performance relationship is mediated by entrepreneurial activity, we examine the mediating role that exploratory and exploitative innovation plays in proactiveness-new product performance association. We complement the literature concerning the EO-performance relationship with the introduction of business ties and competitive intensity that the mediation effect is conditioned to. While data from 344 small-medium ent