Creativity, self-efficacy, and small-firm performance: the mediating role of entrepreneurial orientation

Anis Khedhaouria (), Călin Gurău and Olivier Torrès

Small Business Economics, 2015, vol. 44, issue 3, 485-504

Abstract: Determinants of small-firm performance represent a central topic in the entrepreneurship literature. Addressing associations among personal traits, entrepreneurial orientation (EO), and small-firm performance, we develop a model to examine how an entrepreneur’s creativity, self-efficacy, and EO affect small-firm performance. The hypotheses are tested on a sample of 256 French small-firm owners. The findings show that self-efficacy and EO are positively and directly associated with firm performance, whereas creativity and firm performance are fully mediated by EO. These findings offer important theoretical and practical implications. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media New York 2015

Keywords: Self-efficacy; Creativity; Entrepreneurial orientation; Firm performance; Mediation; L25; L26; M12 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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