Entrepreneurial Orientation and Innovation Ecosystems in the Industrial Sector, Central Region, Kampala, Uganda: A Review

This review explores entrepreneurial orientation and innovation ecosystems in the industrial sector of the Central Region, Kampala, Uganda, through an analysis of ten scholarly articles. The study contextualizes the research within the regional landscape and establishes a theoretical framework through a focused literature review. Key findings highlight the intersection of entrepreneurial activities and innovation dynamics, emphasizing the region’s unique contributions to the broader field. Discussions on discrepancies and unexplored territories within the articles offer insights into limitations and research gaps. The manuscript concludes by identifying future research avenues, providing a roadmap for ongoing inquiry into the entrepreneurial and innovative dimensions of the Central Region’s industrial sector. This synthesis underscores the importance of cultivating an entrepreneurial mindset and collaborative innovation strategies for sustainable industrial development in the region.

Entrepreneurial Leadership, Market Orientation, and Firm Performance

This paper explores entrepreneurial leadership, market orientation, and firm performance. It sorts to ascertain through the literature whether entrepreneurial leadership has an influence on market orientation decision and firm performance. The review points to the fact that entrepreneurial leadership creates visionary scenarios which they used to assemble and mobilize a “supporting cast” of participants who become committed to the vision and the discovery of strategic value creation by influencing market orientation decision and thus enhancing firm performance. The study thus developed a process model as a result of the literature reviewed. The study concludes that, entrepreneurial leadership influences the market orientation decision of a firm with the help of the “supporting cast” and this helps the firm to increase its performance.

Entrepreneurial Orientation, Creativity, and Productivity： The Influence of Self-leadership Strategies

This study examines the influence of self-leadership strategies on the dimensions of entrepreneurial orientation, creativity, and productivity. It also investigates the psychometric properties of the relatively newly developed self-leadership measurement instrument. The study involves a questionnaire-based survey of employees from a perceived innovative organisation operating in the United Arab Emirates. A total of 255 employees participated in the study. The responses were subject to a serious of factor, correlation and regression analyses using SPSS and structural equation modeling. The findings indicate that the second order factor of self-leadership behavioural-focused strategies has a significant and strong effect on entrepreneurial orientation, which in turn enhances influences on creativity and productivity. Furthermore, the second order factor of self-leadership natural reward strategies has no effect on entrepreneurial orientation, suggesting that strategies that seek work activities which are pleasant and enjoyable neither affect the dimensions of entrepreneurial orientation, nor the dimensions of creativity and productivity. Results also showed that self-leadership behavioural-focused strategies accounted for 51% of the variance in entrepreneurial orientation, and 40% and 52% of the variance in creativity and productivity, respectively. The findings also showed that entrepreneurial orientation impacts significantly the dimensions of creativity and productivity. In conclusion, the findings clearly suggest that organisations should train and/or hire those employees who encompass strategies that are intended to strengthen positive, desirable behaviours, such as self-goal setting, self-observation, self-reward, self-punishment, and self-practice, if they wish to maintain and/or increase innovativeness, pro-activeness, creativity, and productivity. Directions for future research and practical implications for leadership and business approaches are discussed.

Entrepreneurial Orientation,Knowledge creation process and New Product Development Performance

This paper analyzed the relationship between entrepreneurial orientation and new product development perlormance based on the perspective of knowledge creation process. Through a questionnaire survey, we found that entrepreneurial orientation is positively related to new product performance, and knowledge creation process plays a mediating role in this relationship. This article examines the role of entrepreneurial orientation on new product innovation performance in Chinese situations, and it is the first time to check the intermediary functions on each dimension of knowledge test between entrepreneurial orientation and new product development performance.

CEO建议寻求、关系学习与企业非连续创新:公司创业导向的激活效应

在日益动态复杂不确定模糊的环境下,能否开发和实施非连续创新越来越事关企业生死存亡。然而,目前文献对企业非连续创新的研究多停留在理论探讨层面,对企业如何培育和顺利实现非连续创新还缺乏系统的考察。基于高阶理论和社会认知理论,从CEO建议寻求出发,探索CEO内部和外部两种建议寻求行为对企业非连续创新的影响,并重点引入关系学习作为中介来揭示CEO建议寻求对企业非连续创新的具体影响路径,并深入剖析公司创业导向对不同来源的CEO建议寻求作用路径的影响效应,继而构建企业非连续创新的过程机制模型。通过对289位CEO的问卷调研与深入分析发现:CEO内部建议寻求和外部建议寻求均是企业非连续创新的关键驱动因素;关系学习在CEO两种来源的建议寻求与企业非连续创新的关系中存在着部分中介作用;公司创业导向正向调节了关系学习在CEO内部建议寻求与企业非连续创新关系中的中介作用。研究结论对于深刻理解企业非连续创新的发生机制、CEO建议寻求利用、关系学习能力优化以及公司创业导向的打造均有着重要的指导价值。

Affecting Factors on Entrepreneurial Oriemation in the Industry

In the present age, entrepreneurship at the organizational level and entrepreneurial orientation at the individual level can be considered as competitive advantage in a new age. This study examines the affecting factors on entrepreneurial orientation in a sample of 248 employees in the industry. This article considered employees＇ entrepreneurial orientation as an dependent variable and emotional and organizational intelligences, as independent variables, which may be effected on entrepreneurial orientation. The results of data analysis by LISREL show that employees＇ willingness to act entrepreneurially increases when they have high emotional and organizational intelligences.

数字化转型、动态能力与企业绩效——来自中国制造业上市公司的经验证据

基于资源基础理论和动态能力理论,构建了数字化转型—动态能力—企业绩效模型,并把创业导向作为调节变量引入其中,以A股制造业上市公司为研究样本,通过实证分析发现:数字化转型对企业绩效有显著的积极影响;动态能力在数字化转型与企业绩效关系中起中介作用;创业导向在数字化转型与企业绩效关系中起正向调节作用;数字化转型对企业绩效的影响存在异质性和滞后效应。结论丰富和扩展了数字化转型对企业绩效影响的实证研究,并为企业数字化转型提供了可行性建议。

金融素养高的农户更愿意创业吗?——基于异质性信贷约束视角

基于14528个农户样本数据,实证分析了农户金融素养是否及如何影响其创业进入决策.研究发现:(1)金融素养对农户是否创业存在显著正向影响,金融素养水平较高的农户更愿意创业.(2)信贷约束在金融素养与农户创业决策间发挥中介作用.其中,需求型及供给型信贷约束均发挥中介作用,需求型信贷约束的中介作用贡献度更高,说明金融素养主要通过缓解需求型信贷约束促进农户创业.(3)与金融素养水平较低的农户相比,信贷约束对金融素养较高的农户创业决策抑制作用更显著.该文提出了着力农户金融教育、适当缓解供给型信贷约束、着重缓解需求型信贷约束、实施倾斜性信贷政策等建议.

创业导向与企业高质量发展——数字化转型和内部控制有效性的调节作用

创业导向对企业在数字经济环境中谋求高质量发展具有深远意义。基于战略选择理论和动态能力理论,以2013—2021年中国主板上市公司为样本,实证讨论了创业导向对企业高质量发展的影响。研究发现,创业导向与企业高质量发展间具有倒U形关系。通过数字化转型和内部控制有效性表现出的动态能力正向调节创业导向与企业高质量发展间的非线性关系,即随着数字化转型程度的加深及内部控制有效性的提升,创业导向对企业高质量发展的促进作用区间得以扩大,企业能够达到更高层次的高质量发展水平,且因过度发挥创业导向的作用而对企业高质量发展产生的消极影响也会得到缓解。研究结论为企业通过激发内在活力促进高质量发展提供了理论支持和实践启示。

知识产权保护、创业导向与双元创新

创新型经济以保护知识产权为着力点,以创业企业作为推动经济创新的重要载体。突破创新者困境的关键在于双元创新,因此探究知识产权保护的正负效应对双元创新的差异化影响,以及不同类型创业导向的中介机制具有实践价值。结果发现:①知识产权保护对创业企业探索式创新具有正效应,而对利用式创新具有负效应;②基于战略认知观发现,知识产权保护能够强化自主研发型导向,而抑制技术引进型导向;③知识产权保护通过激发自主研发型导向对探索式创新产生正效应,通过抑制技术引进型导向对利用式创新产生负效应。由此,构建差异化创新路径,以期为创业企业持续创新发展提供有益的洞见。

Influence of CEO Demography on Entrepreneurial Orientation： The Moderating Role of Competitive Intensity

Although entrepreneurial orientation has been identified as a key facilitator of a firm＇s innovative behaviors, its antecedents, especially the determinant role of the business leader, have yet to be explored. Drawing on strategic leadership theory, which posits the role of CEO in determining a firm＇s strategic direction, we examined the influence of CEO demography, specifically age, tenure, and education, on a firm＇s entrepreneurial orientation. Based on a sample of 231 Chinese firms, we found firms with a CEO who was younger, higher educated, and with a shorter tenure on the job had a greater extent of entrepreneurial orientation. Moreover, the firm＇s competitive environment moderated these relationships.

SEO领导风格对绩效影响的研究——基于创业导向视角的实证分析

近些年,采用创新方法解决社会问题的社会创业组织(SEO)不断在全球兴起,并引起国内外社会科学有关学者们的关注和研究兴趣。其中,社会创业组织领导风格对SEO价值创造过程以及绩效的影响问题成为重要的研究课题之一。目前,国外在这一方面的研究取得初步成效。但是,在中国,该方面的实际研究处于空白。本文研究试图对此做一些弥补:一方面以Covin和Slevin(1991)开发的量表为基础,再借鉴H.Morris(2011)对创新性、超前行动和风险承担在社会创业情境下的界定,对创业导向的测量题项进行了修订,以反映社会创业与传统创业相区别的特征;另一方面,选取中国开展社会创业一年以上的个体或非营利组织为研究对象与样本开展中国本土化的实证研究。本研究发现,变革型领导对创新、风险承担和超前行动三个变量具有积极影响,以及创新和超前行动与社会创业组织绩效具有正向关系。

CEO过度自信影响企业创业导向吗?——基于中国创业板上市公司的实证研究

面临经济与制度"双重转型"以及日益动荡的经营环境,如何驱动公司创业是战略学者讨论的热点议题。本文基于高阶理论与现代管家理论,以2010—2014年中国创业板上市公司数据为样本,研究探讨CEO过度自信对企业创业导向的影响,并在此基础上检验环境情景的调节作用。实证研究结果表明,CEO过度自信对创业导向有显著的正向影响,环境动态性正向调节CEO过度自信与创业导向之间的关系。在多种稳健性检验之后,CEO过度自信与创业导向的显著正向关系仍然稳健。进一步研究发现,相比两职分离的企业,CEO过度自信对创业导向的促进作用在两职合一企业中更为明显;相比非高新技术企业,CEO过度自信与创业导向的正相关关系在高新技术企业中更为显著。研究结论深化并扩展了行为金融学理论中过度自信在创业导向领域的研究范畴,为创业管理实践提供了新的理论视角和经验证据,补充和丰富了CEO个人特征和公司决策的相关研究。

创业导向、动态能力与企业数字化转型

以我国2015—2022年创业板上市公司数据为样本,运用回归分析方法实证检验“创业导向—动态能力—数字化转型”路径机制,研究发现:创业导向能够显著促进企业数字化转型,行业竞争程度强化了这一效应。机制分析表明,创业导向可以通过提高企业动态能力来促进数字化转型;异质性检验发现,相比于国有企业和非高科技企业而言,在非国有企业和高科技企业中,创业导向对数字化转型的促进作用更强。研究结果拓展了企业数字化转型微观层面的前因研究及路径机制,对帮助企业实现数字化转型,构建数字经济系统具有重要启示。

非家族CEO企业家导向、家族涉入与企业二元式创新的关系研究

家族企业聘任非家族CEO能否促进企业创新是当下经济转型期家族企业最突出的困扰。笔者运用实证研究方法,以经济下行压力下的控制家族企业家精神为切入点,深入剖析由创新性、先动性和风险承担性构成的非家族CEO企业家导向对企业探索式创新和开发式创新的异质性作用;探讨控制家族出于对家族经济利益与社会情感财富的考虑涉入家族企业管理,对非家族CEO企业家导向与企业二元式创新的影响;解读控制家族支持或抑制高企业家导向非家族CEO推进企业创新的原因。研究采用问卷调查方法,使用SPSS和Mplus统计软件进行数据处理,分析家族涉入对非家族CEO企业家导向与企业二元式创新的调节效应。研究发现非家族CEO的企业家导向是一种决定企业探索式创新和开发式创新的独特战略资产,与此同时,控制家族并不必然抑制高企业家导向非家族CEO的创新决策。

Entrepreneurial Orientation and Performance of Chinese High-Tech Firms： The Mediating Role of Organizational Learning and Moderating Role of Firm Life Cycle

The evidence about how entrepreneurial orientation （EO） affects firms＇ performance remains inconclusive. This study joins the research by incorporating organizational learning （OL） as a micro-macro link and by extending empirical work to the largely underexplored context of Chinese high-tech industries. Results from a survey of 252 Chinese high-tech firms demonstrate： （1） entrepreneurial orientation is positively related to firm performance; （2） organizational learning is also positively related to firm performance; （3） organizational learning partly mediates the positive impact of entrepreneurial orientation on firm performance; and （4） high-tech companies in the start-up and growth stage are likely to demonstrate stronger linkages in the EO-OL-performance relationship than in mature stage, which shows that the EO-OL-performance relationship is moderated by firms＇ life cycle.

工作场所地位、工作自主性与越轨创新:创业导向的调节作用

越轨创新是个体囿于资源和渠道的有限性而私下自发的创新行为,其在研究和实践中愈发受到重视。基于自我决定理论,探讨了员工工作场所地位对越轨创新行为的作用机制和边界条件。利用SPSS23.0和Mplus7.4软件对搜集的264份数据进行了实证检验。研究结果表明:员工工作场所地位能够正向影响越轨创新行为;工作自主性在工作场所地位影响越轨创新的路径中起中介作用;创业导向正向调节工作自主性和越轨创新的关系,即组织中创业导向的氛围越浓厚,工作场所地位通过工作自主性影响越轨创新的作用越强。结论丰富了越轨创新行为的前因研究,完善了工作场所地位对越轨创新的作用机制,有助于启发管理者关注特定员工群体,为企业更好地理解和把控员工越轨创新行为提供了理论依据。

创业导向、知识共享对新产品开发绩效的影响研究:组织敏捷性的调节效应

基于知识管理和动态能力理论,通过对227家高新技术企业的大样本调查,实证分析了创业导向对新产品开发(NPD)绩效的影响机制及其边界条件。结果表明:创业导向的3个维度(创新性导向、先动性导向和风险承担性导向)对NPD绩效均有正向影响;知识共享在创新性导向、先动性导向与NPD绩效之间起部分中介作用;组织敏捷性不仅正向调节知识共享与NPD绩效之间的关系,而且增强了知识共享在创新性导向、先动性导向与NPD绩效之间的中介效应,即知识共享发挥了有调节的中介作用。研究结果不仅丰富了创业导向与产品创新关系的理论成果,也为企业在NPD过程中有效发挥创业导向与知识共享的作用、提升NPD绩效提供了重要的理论指导与实践启示。

心理资本对大学生创业失败修复的影响——一个有调节的中介效应模型

作为大学生开展创业活动的重要驱动因素,心理资本是否对大学生创业失败修复也产生重要影响,是学界关注的研究问题。对全国632份创业失败大学生问卷调查数据的分析发现:心理资本对大学生创业失败修复有正向促进作用,能正向预测其创业失败修复水平;失败学习和恢复导向在其中起中介作用;经济成本负向调节心理资本通过失败学习和恢复导向影响大学生创业失败修复的程度。促进大学生创业失败修复,可从营造宽容创业失败氛围、切实提升大学生心理资本、构建大学生创业失败经济补偿机制和大学生加强失败学习准备等方面入手。

CEO变革型领导行为、创业导向与商业模式创新

商业模式创新能够帮助企业以顾客价值创造为中心,实现企业资源、流程和业务等要素的优化和配置,获取竞争优势。本文构建了CEO变革型领导行为助推商业模式创新的理论研究模型,并讨论了创业导向和二元环境的中介效应和调节效应。基于368份企业样本数据,运用SPSS和Mplus统计软件进行数据分析,研究结果表明CEO变革型领导行为显著正向影响商业模式创新,创业导向在CEO变革型领导行为和商业模式创新之间起着中介作用,二元环境能够显著正向调节创业导向和商业模式创新之间的关系。研究成果对理清商业模式创新机制、丰富领导行为相关研究具有一定的理论意义,对企业管理实践也具有指导意义。