Sustainable Entrepreneurship Team Scale Development: A Complex Systems Perspective

Shengli Dai, Hongyan Xue, Yuan Jiang, Wei Zhang and Xin Zhang
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Shengli Dai: College of Public Administration, Central China Normal University, Wuhan 430079, China
Hongyan Xue: College of Public Administration, Central China Normal University, Wuhan 430079, China
Yuan Jiang: Antai College of Economic and Management, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200030, China
Wei Zhang: College of Public Administration, Central China Normal University, Wuhan 430079, China
Xin Zhang: College of Public Administration, Central China Normal University, Wuhan 430079, China

Sustainability, 2018, vol. 10, issue 11, 1-20

Abstract: This paper primarily focuses on two questions: (1) “How is a sustainable entrepreneurship team (SET) formed?”; and (2) “What factors contribute to effective SET?”. Based on the model of Baron and Henry (2011), we adopt a process view of SET development and propose a conceptual model of a SET work that includes four key elements: (1) Sustainable entrepreneurial motivation; (2) sustainable entrepreneurial opportunity recognition; (3) knowledge resources acquirement; and (4) sustainable entrepreneurial outcome. Furthermore, based on complex systems theory, we elaborate on how individual entrepreneurs form a SET. We also develop a SET scale and provide some initial empirical support for our conceptual model. Finally, based on our qualitative and quantitative results, we offer suggestions for Research Question 2.

Keywords: sustainable entrepreneurship; team; complex systems; scale (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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