Linking CEO Entrepreneurial Orientation to Firm Performance: The Perspective of Middle Managers’ Cognition

Yueyue Liu and Meng Xi

Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, 2022, vol. 46, issue 6, 1756-1781

Abstract: The influence of chief executive officer (CEO) entrepreneurial orientation (EO) on firm performance and the underlying mediating mechanisms are worth studying because CEO EO may have a double-edged sword effect on firm performance. Drawing on the social information processing theory and social cognitive theory and using multilevel, multi-source data from 198 Chinese firms, this study found that CEO EO affects firm performance by triggering middle managers’ confidence in the organization’s prospects or workplace anxiety, moderated by middle managers’ entrepreneurial self-efficacy. It explicates the CEO EO–performance relationship and the vertical pervasiveness of EO in organizations.

Keywords: CEO entrepreneurial orientation; confidence in the organization’s prospects; workplace anxiety; entrepreneurial self-efficacy; firm performance (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1177/10422587211033571

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