Where do Entrepreneurial Orientations Come From? An Investigation on their Social Origin

Welcome:
Guest

Advances in Entrepreneurship, Firm Emergence and Growth

ISSN: 1074-7540
Series editor(s): Professor Jerome Katz and Professor Andrew C. Corbett

Subject Area: Enterprise and Innovation

Content: Series Volumes | Current Volume RSS

Options: To add Favourites and Table of Contents Alerts please take a Emerald profile

Document Information:
Title:	Where do Entrepreneurial Orientations Come From? An Investigation on their Social Origin
Author(s):	Haibin Yang, Gregory G. Dess
Volume:	10 Editor(s): G.T. Lumpkin, Jerome A. Katz ISBN: 978-0-7623-1429-4 eISBN: 978-1-84950-495-9
Citation:	Haibin Yang, Gregory G. Dess (2007), Where do Entrepreneurial Orientations Come From? An Investigation on their Social Origin, in G.T. Lumpkin, Jerome A. Katz (ed.) Entrepreneurial Strategic Processes (Advances in Entrepreneurship, Firm Emergence and Growth, Volume 10), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, pp.223-247
DOI:	10.1016/S1074-7540(07)10009-X (Permanent URL)
Publisher:	Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Article type:	Chapter Item
Abstract:	This paper explores the origin of entrepreneurial orientations (EO) from an organizational embeddedness perspective. It examines the impacts of firms’ network embeddedness such as structural, positional and relational on three dimensions of EO, namely, risk-taking, proactiveness and innovativeness. After a brief review of the EO construct and social network theory, we derive a set of testable propositions that relate embeddedness properties such as centrality, structural holes, direct/indirect ties, and network density, to the magnitude of three key EO dimensions. We argue that each dimension may vary independently with each other and has its own formation mechanism, which entails rich implications for entrepreneurial network research.