Browsing by Author "Skarmeas, Dionysis"
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- Entrepreneurial orientation pathways to performance: A fuzzy-set analysisPublication . Lisboa, Ana; Skarmeas, Dionysis; Saridakis, CharalamposMost prior research on entrepreneurial orientation (EO) aggregates its features into a gestalt construct to investigate its influence on firm performance. This study deconstructs EO into innovativeness, proactiveness, and risktaking dimensions and focuses on the causalmechanisms bywhich those factors collectively affect performance. By drawing on the resource-based view of the firm and its dynamic capabilities extension, the study identifies multiple paths of complex causal recipes that can lead to certain organizational capabilities, competitive advantages, and performance. To do that, the study uses fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA), a technique that provides a holistic view of the examined interrelationships, compared to traditional net effect approaches that assumesymmetric and linear relationships among variables. The study provides key conclusions and insightful implications for managers and researchers.
- Export performance as a function of market learning capabilities and intrapreneurship: SEM and FsQCA findingsPublication . Skarmeas, Dionysis; Lisboa, Ana; Saridakis, CharalamposThis study draws on the resource-based, dynamic capabilities, and organization learning theories to investigate the internal mechanisms through which intrapreneurship influences current and future export performance. Specifically, this approach views the four distinct dimensions of intrapreneurship, namely new business venturing, innovativeness, self-renewal, and proactiveness, as critical resources, and export market exploitation and exploration as important market learning capabilities. The study posits that such resources and capabilities collectively contribute to improve export performance outcomes. The study develops a theoretically anchored model and employs both structural equation modeling and fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis to test the model relationships. These two techniques have different foci: the net effect of an independent variable on an outcome variable and the conditions that lead to a given outcome, respectively. The study results provide substantial support for the theoretical framework and a valuable addition to the scant literature on the roles of intrapreneurship and market exploitation and exploration in exporting.