谈钱真的伤感情吗?创业团队契约治理对成员亲密关系的影响

Does Talking about Money Really Hurt Feelings? The Impact of Entrepreneurial Team Contractual Governance on Team Closeness

创业团队通常拥有亲戚、朋友等亲密关系,实践中却存在不少因权利争斗而导致关系破裂的例子。创业团队契约治理作为一种通过正式、具有法律约束的协议规范契约双方的行为和结果的治理模式,是否能显著提升团队亲密度呢?基于377份主创业者调研问卷,本文发现:(1)创业团队契约治理能够有效提升团队成员亲密度。(2)创业团队契约治理主要通过提升团队成员的分配公平感和程序公平感,从而提升团队成员亲密度。(3)当新创企业绩效水平较高时,分配公平感对亲密度的促进作用越强,而程序公平感对亲密度的促进作用有所削弱;当新创企业绩效水平较低时,程序公平感对亲密度的促进作用越强,而分配公平感对亲密度的促进作用有所削弱。本研究丰富了创业团队治理及亲密度的研究,并对创业实践有直接的指导意义。

Entrepreneurial teams usually have close relationships, such as relatives and friends,which is an important basis for the initial development of a new venture. In close relationships, detailed discussion on the distribution of “power, responsibility, and interest” is usually considered as an act that undermines trust and overestimates interest. Meanwhile, formal contracts represent more monitoring and control over partners, which is not conducive to the maintenance and development of close relationships.But in practice, there are many entrepreneurial teams whose close relationship breaks down due to unclear distribution and power struggle. Based on this, this paper explores the impact of entrepreneurial team contractual governance on team closeness and its mechanism from the perspective of organizational justice theory, and proposes a moderated mediation model with distributive justice perception and procedural justice perception as mediators and new venture performance as a moderator.The results show that: First, entrepreneurial team contractual governance can effectively improve team closeness. Second, entrepreneurial team contractual governance improves team closeness by improving distributive justice perception and procedural justice perception. Third, when the level of new venture performance is higher, the promoting effect of distributive justice perception on closeness is stronger, while that of procedural justice perception on closeness is weakened. When the level of new venture performance is lower, the promoting effect of procedural justice perception on closeness is stronger, while that of distributive justice perception on closeness is weakened.Our study makes several contributions to the literature: First, this paper develops the theory of entrepreneurial team governance by finding that entrepreneurial team contractual governance can effectively improve team closeness, which breaks the conventional sense that formal contracts undermine the development of relationship. Second, the findings are of great significance for how to develop close relationships within entrepreneurial teams and avoid the breakdown of cooperation which are ignored in previous research, and provide reference for entrepreneurial practice. Third, this paper enriches the research on new venture performance by exploring the moderating effect of new venture performance to understand the team interaction process under different levels of new venture performance.