基于社会认知论的创业团队人际信任影响因素实证研究

本文将创业团队人际信任划分为认知型信任和情感型信任。然后，基于社会认知视角从成员主体特征、成员关系特征、创业团队文化和创业团队特征四个方面考察创业团队人际信任的影响因素，并运用相关分析和多重逐步回归分析法分别分析了各要素对创业团队中认知型信任和情感型信任的影响程度。研究结果表明：成员能力、成员正直、成员沟通、成员合作、成员竞争、团队行为规范、任务依赖性、角色期待性、目标明确性和成员异质性10个因素对创业团队认知型信任产生显著影响；成员善意、成员信任倾向、成员沟通、成员合作、成员竞争、团队价值观念、团队行为规范和目标明确性8个因素对创业团队情感型信任影响显著。     

企业高管团队社会资本对创新能力的影响——以江西省上市公司为例

本文构建高管团队社会资本对创新能力影响模型本文构建高管团队社会资本对创新能力影响模型,并以江西省上市公司为研究对象。文章经实证检验发现文章经实证检验发现:高管团队外部社会资本和内部社会资本均对创新能力有显著影响外部社会资本和内部社会资本均对创新能力有显著影响;高管团队外部社会资本对创新能力的正向影响更大高管团队外部社会资本对创新能力的正向影响更大;高管团队外部社会资本各维度对创新能力的影响强度依次为政治资本、金融资本、技术资本、客户资本客户资本;高管团队内部社会资本各维度对创新能力的影响强度依次为关系维、认知维、结构维。文章最后提出高管团队成员要加强与外部各方的联系的联系,同时还应加强内部间的互动,提高信任度和凝聚力。     

动态竞争环境下高管团队社会网络、行动进攻性与企业绩效

本文主要融合社会网络与动态竞争理论,探讨企业发起竞争行动背后的深层次内部机制,具体关注高管团队社会网络与竞争压力感知如何影响企业的行动进攻性与企业绩效;以及行动进攻性对高管团队社会网络与企业绩效之间关系的调节效应。主要结论有：第一,高管团队社会网络（包括内部与外部网络）对企业行动进攻性存在着显著的正向影响;第二,高管团队的竞争压力感知对行动进攻性有显著正向影响;第三,竞争压力对于高管团队内部网络与行动进攻性的关系有显著的正向调节作用;而对于高管团队外部网络与进攻行动的关系则没有显著的调节作用;第四,行动进攻性对企业绩效具有显著的正向影响;第五,行动进攻性对高管团队内部网络与企业绩效之间的关系有显著的正向调节作用;而对高管团队外部网络与企业绩效之间的关系并没有显著的调节影响。     

虚拟团队社会网络结构对团队绩效作用机制研究：团队信任的中介作用

文章探讨虚拟团队中的社会网络结构特性对团队绩效的影响。文章的分析结果表明社会网络结构是虚拟团队的重要资源,要充分利用团队内部的社会网络关系,增强团队成员之间的信任,促进整个团队的协调与合作,从而提升团队的整体绩效。     

创新投入如何高效转化? ——企业内外部社会资本协同机制研究

基于社会资本理论和资源依赖理论,文章以我国A股上市公司2008-2013年连锁董事全网络企业为研究对象,探讨企业内外部社会资本协同对企业创新投入创新绩效转化的协同机制.结果表明:创新投入能够显著促进企业外部网络声望和网络权力的获取;企业创新投入将通过提高企业网络声望和网络权力进而对创新绩效产生积极影响;高管团队多样性越高,企业创新投入对创新绩效的影响作用越强;高管团队多样性越高,企业外部网络声望和网络权力对创新绩效的影响作用越强.     

高管成员领导力与团队内部信任关系研究

企业成长越来越多地依靠团队力量。在小企业成长过程中,高管成员领导力由个人魅力、团队合力、关系张力三部分构成,它们直接将影响到创业团队内部信任关系的延续方向,进而影响创业精神的发挥。     

创新团队中隐性知识的有效管理

创新团队担负着知识创新的重大使命。隐性知识作为团队创新最主要的源泉,其高效流动和充分利用是团队创新成功的关键。团队成员间的密切性通过成员之间的信任程度,对隐性知识流转产生影响。因此,在创新团队中加强成员间的密切性对于提高团队的创新能力和创新团队的整体绩效具有十分重要的作用。     

服务型领导力差异对团队绩效的影响研究

现阶段,服务型领导力在社会中的作用愈渐突出、影响的范围愈广,主要表现在积极的领导力能给企业发展带来积极影响,有效调节领导和员工之间的关系,发挥着调节团队内良性竞争氛围的重要作用。即服务型领导力差异越小,团队的绩效水平会越高,团队成员越团结。论文就服务型领导力差异对团队绩效的影响进行了探讨。     

创业团队异质性与团队互动、决策绩效的关系路径:一项多案例研究

在创业实践中,创业团队内部的构成、协作与管理是影响创业成败的重要因素,而创业团队成员个体间的差异则会显著影响创业团队的行为,并最终对创业活动的成败产生至关重要的影响.本文从团队理论和社会认同理论视角出发,采用多案例研究的方法,针对JG公司、ZM公司、WX公司等3家创业型企业展开了系统性的研究.通过对案例中获取的资料进行规范性编码,本研究对创业团队异质性、团队互动、团队决策绩效在创业情景下的结构维度进行了重新提炼与界定;进一步,本文得到了创业团队异质性与团队互动、决策绩效的三条重要关系路径:社会型异质性—团队沟通—决策质量,社会型异质性—团队协作—决策满意度,价值观类异质性—团队沟通—决策质量.在此基础上,本文为创业团队的组建与发展提出了建议.     

浅析信任对高绩效团队建设的影响

在企业内部，团队内部要互相信任，互相帮助，团结一致，发挥团队的最大作用。而团队建设和发展依赖于每个成员的精诚合作。因此，本文就针对信任对高绩效团队的影响展开论述，同时提出合理化意见。     

Environmental and Firm Level Influences on Inter‐Organizational Trust and SME Performance

We investigate the effects of focal firm knowledge intensity and uncertainty on inter‐organizational trust and subsequent performance of small and medium size enterprises (SMEs). We integrate the trust literature with transaction cost literature as both of these offer partial explanations of the dynamics of inter‐organizational trust in the context of an SME. We propose that knowledge intensity of the focal firm will have a positive relationship while uncertainty will have a negative relationship with inter‐organizational trust in an exchange relationship. Further, we propose a positive relationship between trust and SME performance, which will be contingent on the level of external and internal uncertainty faced by the focal firm. Empirical evidence, based on the survey data of 565 German SMEs, mostly supports our arguments.     

Social capital and entrepreneurial process

The paper examines the relationship between social capital and entrepreneurial engagement of individuals in 35 nations from Europe and Asia. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first empirical research that attempts to investigate the influence of three-dimensional social capital concept – trust, networks and norms – on three stages of entrepreneurial process – preference, trial and success – using such large and comprehensive cross-sectional micro data. In general, we find that all three dimensions of social capital matter in the entrepreneurship context, albeit differently. They become beneficial in different ways and at different stages of entrepreneurial involvement. For example, among trust variables, institutional trust in general, and trust in business-oriented and business-supporting actors in particular, exert significant positive effect on entrepreneurial process. Individuals with formal membership in professional associations are more likely to perceive entrepreneurial opportunities, while some close or strong-tie networks might prevent them from progressing in the entrepreneurship ladder. Finally, individual level civic norms appear to be negatively associated with early-stage entrepreneurship, while the success in becoming an entrepreneur is not found to be bound by people’s civic norms.     

‘Who Knows What?’ in New Venture Teams: Transactive Memory Systems as a Micro‐Foundation of Entrepreneurial Orientation

The increasing importance of entrepreneurial behaviour has led scholars to embrace the idea that an entrepreneurial orientation (EO) is an important predictor of firm performance. While EO occupies a central position in strategic entrepreneurship research, scholars have yet to explore its origins in new ventures. Drawing on the knowledge‐based and cognitive views, we theorize that a new venture team's transactive memory system is a cognitive mechanism that spurs the development of an EO. In a field study of high‐tech new ventures in China, we examined the relationship between venture teams’ transactive memory systems (representing the distribution, integration, and utilization of the teams’ knowledge) and EO and the moderating influence of team‐, firm‐, and environment‐level factors. We found that the transactive memory system of a new venture team enhanced their EO and that this relationship was positively influenced by intra‐team trust, the structural organicity of a venture, and environmental dynamism. Our findings provide novel insights into the micro‐foundations of TMS in developing an EO in new ventures.     

Linking network ties to entrepreneurial opportunity discovery and exploitation: the role of affective and cognitive trust

Entrepreneurial opportunity discovery (EODI) and opportunity exploitation (EOEX) are two critical entrepreneurial activities which heavily depend on external social network. The present study provided a nuanced investigation on the roles of affective and cognitive trust in the relationship between network ties (strong and weak ties) and opportunity discovery and exploitation. We examined the hypothesized relationships using longitudinal data collected from a sample of 207 nascent entrepreneurs in China. Our results showed that affective trust mediated the positive effects of network ties on EODI and EOEX. Further, cognitive trust moderated their relationships, that is, high level of cognitive trust enhance the positive relationship between weak ties and EODI as well as the positive relationship between strong ties and EOEX. Theoretical and practical implications are discussed.     

高管团队社会网络与企业决策绩效的联系机制:理论整合的视角

高层管理团队社会网络与企业绩效之间的关系,是近年来国内外战略人力资源管理研究的热点问题之一。高管团队决策绩效是影响企业绩效的一个非常重要的因素。文章以TMT社会网络为切入点,整合管理者角色理论、信息理论、认知冲突理论以及信任理论,探讨了TMT社会网络和企业决策绩效之间的内在联系机制。     

Examining the influence of servant and entrepreneurial leadership on the work outcomes of employees in social enterprises

Abstract

The present study examines the relative influence of two distinct leadership styles, servant leadership and entrepreneurial leadership, on the organizational commitment and innovative behavior of employees working in social enterprises. Analyzing data from 169 employees and 42 social entrepreneurs, we found that, although servant leadership was positively related to followers’ organizational commitment, the relationship between entrepreneurial leadership and organizational commitment was insignificant. In contrast, whilst we found evidence that entrepreneurial leadership was positively related to followers’ innovative behavior, the relationship between servant leadership and employees’ innovative behavior was insignificant. Our research contributes to the underdeveloped literature on leadership in social enterprises by exploring the relative effectiveness of different leadership styles (namely an entrepreneurial leadership style and a servant leadership style) in promoting follower work attitudes and behaviors in social enterprises. In addition, our research demonstrates the importance of leadership over and above followers’ individual differences such as pro-social motivation and creative self-efficacy.     

Exploring creative entrepreneurs’ happiness: cognitive style,guanxi and creativity

Traditional economic theories generally assume that entrepreneurs’ satisfaction is largely affected by financial performance of their entrepreneurial business, while recent research suggests that entrepreneurs’ happiness is more important than financial success. Drawing upon the theories of entrepreneurial cognition and social networks, we develop a model to explore the factors influencing entrepreneurs’ happiness. A total of 270 creative entrepreneurs in Taiwan’s creative industries are studied. Results show that entrepreneurs’ creating cognitive style has a positive effect on both entrepreneurs’ creativity and firm creativity, but entrepreneurs’ planning cognitive style has a negative effect. Findings indicate that entrepreneurs with strong family ties and business ties have high level of individual creativity and firm creativity, which then have a positive influence on entrepreneurs’ happiness.     

Board size,social trust,and corporate risk taking: Evidence from China

This paper examines the relationship between board size and corporate risk taking, as well as the moderating effects of regional‐level social trust. Results show that larger boards have greater difficulty in achieving consensus on extreme decisions and thus tend to reduce firm risk taking in a Chinese context. Moreover, social trust had a significant moderating effect on the relationship between board size and corporate risk taking. This study contributes to the risk taking literature by testing the board size‐risk taking linkage in a Chinese context and offering an explanation based on internal board governance and external informal institution heterogeneity.     

Social trust environment and firm tax avoidance: Evidence from China

We examine the impact of the social trust environment in which a firm is located on its tax avoidance in China and paying attention to the moderating effect of corporate governance and state-ownership. Drawing from theoretical and empirical work on firm tax avoidance and manager–shareholder agency conflict, we hypothesize that social trust can lower firm tax avoidance. It is because a high social trust environment can reduce agency conflict so that tax avoidance is less. Our findings are consistent with our hypothesis, and robust to a battery of robustness tests. Furthermore, we document that the association between social trust and firm tax avoidance is more pronounced for firms with weak corporate governance and state-owned. Moreover, we find that firms in more trustworthy provinces present less general and administrative expenses and higher asset turnover, corroborating our theoretical foundations with respect to agency cost in our hypothesis. Our findings suggest that social trust and its interactions with corporate governance and state ownership are important internal and external determinants on the variations in tax avoidance.     

Network ties and entrepreneurial orientation: Innovative performance of SMEs in a developing country

This study investigates the role of intra-cluster ties, extra-cluster ties, and entrepreneurial orientation in shaping firms’ innovative performance. We conduct our analysis on a primary data set of 120 small and medium enterprises located in the Cibaduyut footwear-manufacturing cluster, Indonesia. We explore the effectiveness of knowledge acquisition through intra-cluster ties and extra-cluster ties on innovative performance. We find that extra-cluster ties mediate the relationship between proactiveness and innovative performance. Also, a combination of high extra-cluster ties and risk taking exert a positive impact on innovative performance. Surprisingly, we find that risk taking negatively moderates the influence of intra-cluster ties on innovative performance. Over-reliance on within-cluster knowledge sharing may result in the diffusion of redundant knowledge rather than making new knowledge available to the firm. Overall, our findings point to the synergistic effects of entrepreneurial orientation and extra-cluster ties on innovative performance.