SME Entrepreneurial Orientation, Performance, and the Moderating Role of Firm Resources

2017

Master's thesis Business Administration BE501 - University of Agder 2017 The effects of entrepreneurial orientation on firm performance are grounded and well established. However, when accounting for potential factors having a moderating effect on this relationship, most scholarly attention has been given environmental factors, thus consequently, potential organizational implications on this relationship have been neglected. In response, this article discusses what role specific organizational factors play in moderating the relationship between entrepreneurial orientation and performance. Representing firm resources, data on intellectual and financial resources are analyzed. A conceptual fr…