The relationship between psychological resilience, organizational resilience, and business performance in the context of entrepreneurship

Satoshi Kawakatsu and Tomoki Sekiguchi

Discussion papers from Graduate School of Economics , Kyoto University

Abstract: If entrepreneurs have higher psychological resilience, can their ventures also increase organizational resilience and achieve higher corporate performance? In this study, we explore the factors that boost venture firm performance from the perspective of resilience in entrepreneurship. Specifically, we theorize the serial mediating effects of entrepreneurs’ networking capacity and organizations’ absorptive capacity between entrepreneur’s psychological resilience and organizational resilience, which ultimately leads to firm performance. The results of our empirical analysis using data from 175 entrepreneurs in Japan during a period when the aftereffects of COVID-19 remained strong in small and medium-sized firms support our theoretical model. This study contributes to a better understanding of resilience in entrepreneurship.

Keywords: entrepreneurship; psychological resilience; organizational resilience; absorptive capacity; organizational learning; Post COVID-19 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 32
Date: 2025-05
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