Entrepreneurial orientation, environmental sustainability and new venture performance: Does stakeholder integration matter?. (11th July 2018)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Amankwah‐Amoah, Joseph; Danso, Albert; Adomako, Samuel
• Is Part Of: Business strategy and the environment. Volume 28:Number 1(2019)
• Page Start: 79
• Page End: 87
• Publication Date: 2018-07-11
• Subjects: entrepreneurial orientation -- environmental policy -- environmental sustainability orientation -- Ghana -- new venture firms -- stakeholder engagement -- stakeholder integration -- sustainable development; Industrial management -- Environmental aspects -- Periodicals; Industries -- Environmental aspects -- Periodicals; 658.4083
• DOI: 10.1002/bse.2191
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0964-4733

Abstract

Abstract: Previous research has theorised that the link between entrepreneurial orientation (EO) and performance is mediated by environmental sustainability orientation (ESO). However, firm‐level factors that may moderate this relationship are lacking. This paper attempts to fill this gap by examining how and when EO enhances new venture performance by considering ESO as mediator and stakeholder integration as an important contingent factor. Using primary data obtained from 242 chief executive officers/entrepreneurs, it was found that the indirect relationship between EO and new venture performance is strengthened at high levels of stakeholder integration. Theoretical and practical implications are discussed.