How do Firms with Management Ability Promote Competitive Advantages? An Integrated Model from Entrepreneurial Strategy Making and Internal Resources

Lee TingKo () and Liu Hsian-Ming
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Lee TingKo: Graduate School of Resources Management & Decision Science, Management College, National Defense University, Taipei, Taiwan
Liu Hsian-Ming: Department of Financial Management, Management College, National Defense University, Taipei, Taiwan

Entrepreneurship Research Journal, 2018, vol. 8, issue 2, 15

Abstract: This study explores whether managerial ability (MA) promotes firms’ competitive advantages (CAs). By combining data collected through a questionnaire survey and a secondary database from 181 public firms in Taiwan, the results show that superior MA enhances CAs. Moreover, this research presents the mechanisms of value and rareness and offers evidence that MA promotes CAs through these mechanisms. More importantly, this research further finds that entrepreneurial strategy making (ESM) positively strengthens these mediated effects such that the indirect effects are stronger when ESM is strong rather than weak.

Keywords: managerial ability; entrepreneurial strategy making; value; rareness; competitive advantages (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1515/erj-2017-0071

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