Vajihe Baghersad; Ali Davari; Taraneh Farrokhmanesh
Volume 26, Issue 1 , April 2022, , Pages 88-110
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Purposefulness, feasibility and performance of entrepreneurial businessesAbstractPurposefulness (causality) and possibilityism (effectiveness) are two decision logics that entrepreneurs use in doing activities. Over the past two decades, much attention has been paid to these two behavioral logics that ...
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Purposefulness, feasibility and performance of entrepreneurial businessesAbstractPurposefulness (causality) and possibilityism (effectiveness) are two decision logics that entrepreneurs use in doing activities. Over the past two decades, much attention has been paid to these two behavioral logics that entrepreneurs use to start and develop new companies. Existing research suggests that business performance is associated with purposefulness and feasibility. The purpose of this paper is to examine the purposefulness and feasibility (with four dimensions of experimentation, tolerable loss, flexibility and pre-commitment) on business performance using structural equation modeling. This research is applied from the perspective of purpose and the data are collected by descriptive-correlation method. The statistical population of the study is businesses active in the information technology industry. The statistical sample through Cochran's formula includes 175 entrepreneurs active in this field who have been selected by random sampling method. The collected data were analyzed by SPSS26 and SmartPLS3 software. Research findings show that flexibility, goal orientation, experimentation have a positive and significant relationship with entrepreneurial performance; And tolerable losses and pre-commitments have a negative and significant relationship with performance. In other words, the relationship between tolerable losses and pre-commitments is inversely related to performance, and with the increase of either of these, the performance of the business decreases. The reason for this discrepancy may be explained in the results due to differences, and finally some suggestions for research are provided.
mohammad Zali; - -; - -; - -
Volume 16, Issue 2 , July 2012, , Pages 91-111
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Abstract This article investigates the impact of social network size on business performance based on GEM (Global Entrepreneurship Monitor) data of Iran, Croatia and Denmark in 2008-2010. A sample of 1801 owner-managers participated in the GEM interviews is used. Social network of an entrepreneur is ...
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Abstract This article investigates the impact of social network size on business performance based on GEM (Global Entrepreneurship Monitor) data of Iran, Croatia and Denmark in 2008-2010. A sample of 1801 owner-managers participated in the GEM interviews is used. Social network of an entrepreneur is made up of private, job, experience, professional and market networks. Exploratory factor analysis shows that the experience network and private network have the highest and lowest factor loadings respectively (0.9 and 0.37). Similarly, in factor analysis of performance as a latent variable the highest factor loading is for export (0.33) and the lowest is for growth expectation (0.05). The results show that Danish entrepreneurs establish their business mostly to exploit opportunities (75%) rather than having no better job option. Most of them also have role models (more than 70%). In these regards Denmark has higher rank than Iran and Croatia. On average the entrepreneurs’ social network size in Iran is 2.9 while in two other countries, it is 6. The size of private network is higher than size of other networks in Iran (1.61). The result of structural equation modelling shows that business performance (innovation, export and growth expectation) is affected significantly by social network size (74%) and this effect is moderated by role model (0.07%) and opportunity motivation (7.2%). Keywords: Social Networks, Business Performance, Opportunity Motivation, Role Model.
Hossein Rezaie Dolat Abady; Ahmad Ali Khaef Alahi
Volume 10, Issue 1 , April 2006, , Pages 131-131
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Market orientation and it’s impact on the business performance is an important subject in customer and market management field. At first, this paper investigates various view points and models of market orientation and it examines the effects of market orientation on business performance with respect ...
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Market orientation and it’s impact on the business performance is an important subject in customer and market management field. At first, this paper investigates various view points and models of market orientation and it examines the effects of market orientation on business performance with respect to marketing capability. Then we investigate the key causal linkages among “market orientation culture”, “intelligence market”, “marketing capabilities” and “business performance”. A decision-oriented and conceptual model is proposed and tested based on data from industrial environment using structural equation modelling technique. The results support the notion that business performance in current competitive environment is under the influence of integration market orientation and marketing capabilities.
