SEMINAR SERIES
Management Seminar
Martin Hemmert（Professor of International Business, Korea University）
- Date&Time:
- 2023.10.5 (Thu) 15:00-16:30
- Venue:
- Case Study Room on 3F, Research Bldg. No.2, Yoshida Campus, Kyoto University
- Language:
- English
- Contact:
- Tomoki Sekiguchi
(Title)
“The entrepreneurial orientation-performance relationship among new technology-based firms: Evidence from East Asia”
Abstract:
Most extant research on the performance implications of entrepreneurial orientation (EO) has focused on established firms and on firm-specific andorganizational factors. We study the performance effects of EO sub-dimensions on the performance of new technology-based firms (NTBFs) and byexamining environmental uncertainty, which is related to national institutional development, as an important boundary condition in an East Asian context.We analyze survey data from 2,023 new technology-based firms (NTBFs) in China, South Korea and Japan and find that while the NTBFs’ performance ispositively related to their entrepreneurial behavior, it is negatively related to their managerial attitude towards risk-taking. Furthermore, the positiveperformance effect of entrepreneurial behavior is weakened by environmental uncertainty, which is higher in China than in South Korea and Japan. Ourfindings suggest that for NTBFs, the performance implications of EO dimensions need to be studied separately.
Dr. Martin Hemmert is Professor of International Business at Korea University. He received his doctoral degree at the University of Cologne and has heldresearch and teaching positions at the University of Duisburg-Essen, the National University of Singapore, and Hitotsubashi University. His researchinterests include international comparative studies of management systems, innovation systems and entrepreneurial ecosystems, organizationalboundaries of firms and inter-organizational research collaborations, with a focus on East Asian countries. He has published several books, including mostrecently Entrepreneurship in Korea: From Chaebols to Start-ups (Routledge, 2021), and more than 40 articles in peer-reviewed international journals suchas Journal of Product Innovation Management, Journal of World Business, International Business Review, Research Policy, and Technovation.