Resource combination activities and new venture growth: Exploring the role of effectuation, causation, and entrepreneurs’ gender

Te Yang, Karen D. Hughes and Wenhong Zhao

Journal of Small Business Management, 2021, vol. 59, issue S1, S73-S101

Abstract: Drawing on effectuation theory and the theory of firm growth, our study introduces effectuation and causation as the mediators to explore the mechanism of resource combination activities and new venture growth. Using a sample of 250 new ventures in China, our research finds that effectuation positively mediates the relationship between resource combination activities and new venture growth; whereas, causation plays a negative mediated role. Furthermore, results show that the entrepreneurs’ gender influences the mediated effect of causation and effectuation. Specifically, female entrepreneurs enhance the positive effect of effectuation; whereas, male entrepreneurs weaken the negative effect of causation.

Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1080/00472778.2020.1790292

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