Recognition of entrepreneur’s social ties and firm innovation in emerging markets: explanation from the industrial institutional environment and survival pressure

Wenting Chen (), Chunjia Han (), Lei Wang (), Petros Ieromonachou () and Xiaochen Lu ()
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Wenting Chen: Dongbei University of Finance and Economics
Chunjia Han: University of Greenwich
Lei Wang: Dongbei University of Finance and Economics
Petros Ieromonachou: University of Greenwich
Xiaochen Lu: Dongbei University of Finance and Economics

Asia Pacific Journal of Management, 2021, vol. 38, issue 2, No 4, 518 pages

Abstract: Abstract Despite the extensive attention to the role of entrepreneurs’ business or political ties, few studies have distinguished the basis of those social ties. The aim of this study is to explore the different roles of the entrepreneurs’ personalized and formal social ties on the firms’ innovation performance. Based on renqing and formal rules, this study extends the social ties’ typology into four categories, namely, transactional business ties, transactional political ties, guanxi business ties, and guanxi political ties. Using data collected from 209 Chinese firms, we further identify the distinctive contributions of the different ties on the entrepreneurial firm’s innovation performance under different institutional environments and entrepreneurs’ survival pressure. This paper will help researchers and managers better understand the function of social ties in innovation in emerging markets, such as China.

Keywords: Social ties; Guanxi; Enforcement inefficiency; Survival pressure; Innovation performance (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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