The Role of Environment in Sustainable Entrepreneurial Orientation. The Case of Family Firms

Felipe Hernández-Perlines and Manuel Alejandro Ibarra Cisneros
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Felipe Hernández-Perlines: Department of Business Administration, University of Castilla-La Mancha, 45071 Toledo, Spain
Manuel Alejandro Ibarra Cisneros: Faculty of Administrative Sciences, Autonomous University of Baja California, Mexicali 21330, Mexico

Sustainability, 2018, vol. 10, issue 6, 1-16

Abstract: This study analyzes the role of the environment in the sustainable entrepreneurial orientation on the international performance of family firms. The results have been analyzed with Partial Least Squares regression. The three most important contributions of this work are: (1) The definition of sustainable business orientation as a third-order composite that integrates entrepreneurial orientation and corporate social responsibility is adequate as it presents appropriate values of reliability and validity; (2) entrepreneurial orientation is the main component of sustainable entrepreneurial orientation, with having corporate social responsibility a plus for entrepreneurial orientation; and (3) sustainable entrepreneurial orientation manages to explain 58.6% of the variability in the international performance of family firms and, finally, the environment has a positive moderating role, increasing up to 73.5%.

Keywords: sustainable entrepreneurial orientation; environment; international performance; family firms; PLS; moderating effect (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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