Entrepreneurial behavior and firm performance: The mediating role of business model novelty

Rakesh Pati, Abby Ghobadian, M.K. Nandakumar, Michael A. Hitt, Nicholas O’Regan

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Abstract

Bricolage and effectuation have emerged as new theoretical perspectives describing entrepreneurial behavior (EB). Bricolage emphasizes the creative use of available resources, while effectuation uses available means as a starting point and encourages firms to engage in affordable loss, pre‐commitment, flexibility, and experimentation as independent dimensions for entrepreneurial actions. This study examines the influence of each dimension of EB, namely bricolage, affordable loss, pre‐commitment, flexibility, and experimentation on business model novelty (BMN). It further assesses the EB – firm performance relationship and examines the mediating effect of BMN on the relationship between each dimension of EB and firm performance. We surveyed 238 small and medium enterprises in India. Our results indicate that bricolage, pre‐commitment, flexibility, and experimentation positively influence BMN. However, affordable loss behavior had a negative impact on BMN. Moreover, our findings indicate that BMN mediates the EB‐firm performance relationship. Our study enriches the extant literature by demonstrating the impact of each dimension of EB on BMN – an aspect not covered by the extant literature. Furthermore, our study adds to the literature by highlighting BMN as an important mediator explaining EB’s impact on firm performance.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)551-567
Number of pages17
JournalR&D Management
Volume51
Issue number5
Early online date23 Mar 2021
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 18 Nov 2021

Bibliographical note

This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Pati, R., Ghobadian, A., Nandakumar, M., Hitt, M.A. and O’Regan, N. (2021), Entrepreneurial behavior and firm performance: The mediating role of business model novelty. R&D Management, which has been published in final form at https://doi.org/10.1111/radm.12466.  This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance With Wiley Terms and Conditions for self-archiving.

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