宽容的创业文化对再创业绩效的影响机制北大核心CSCDCSSCI

既有研究聚焦于创业者个体内部因素来解释连续创业者的再创业绩效,而嵌入于社会环境中的连续创业活动如何受外部因素影响的研究尚处初始阶段。在创业失败率较高的背景下,对失败宽容的创业文化如何影响连续创业者的再创业绩效尚未清楚。基于社会支持理论和社会认知理论,从连续创业者的情绪以及认知视角切入探讨宽容的创业文化对连续创业绩效的影响机制,以来自全国25个省级行政区的225位有过创业失败经历后又再创业的创业者作为研究样本,采用层次回归分析法和Bootstrap检验方法。结果表明:社会宽容对再创业绩效具有正向影响,创业自我效能感在社会宽容和再创业绩效之间起着中介作用,创业激情与创业自我效能感在社会宽容和再创业绩效之间起着链式中介作用。研究揭示了宽容的创业文化对再创业绩效的影响机制,证实了文化因素是驱动创业激情和创业自我效能感的前因变量,对创业文化与连续创业的研究有着重要意义,对推动宽容的创业文化实践也具有启发价值。

The influence mechanism of tolerant entrepreneurial culture on re-entrepreneurial performance

Serial entrepreneurship is common in China, and extant literature has suggested that serial entrepreneurs differ from inexperienced entrepreneurs in several ways. Existing studies have substantially improved our understanding of serial entrepreneurship, its increased access to capital, the position to learn from earlier experience, insight into this topic remains limited in at least two ways. First, most prior researches shed lights on the individual changes of serial entrepreneurs by studying the learning process and cognitive enhancement, while the understanding on the impact of outside factors on serial entrepreneurs remains limited, there is emerging evidence in entrepreneurship that venture environment has salient influence on entrepreneurial activities. Second, there is a prevailing assumption in existing literature that entrepreneurial passion which indicates strong enthusiasm and perseverance leads to beneficial outcomes, but none of extant researches explores the passion status of serial entrepreneurs and the role of it in serial entrepreneurship, which limited our understanding on the interpretation boundary of passion theory. In this paper, we study the influence of socio-cultural factor (social tolerance) on serial entrepreneurs’ performance through the mediation of entrepreneurial passion and efficacy. We draw on socio-culture literature and entrepreneurship literature, arguing that a tolerance social culture offers serial entrepreneurs a light-hearted environment to overcome failure experiences, and their subsequent venture activities will not suffer from crisis of lacking legitimacy which may hamper their access to resource support, therefor they may easier achieve success under such a tolerant environment. Furthermore, we adopt entrepreneurial passion and efficacy simultaneously to further explain the mechanism of social tolerance on serial entrepreneurship. The sample used in this study includes 225 serial entrepreneurs from 25 provinces in China, all entrepreneurs have at least one time failure experiences. Our results provide support for the antecedent role of social tolerance on passion and venture performance, and provide no support for mediation effects of passion on the performance of the subsequent business, which is consistent with prior research, but confirm the serial mediation effects of passion and efficacy on subsequent venture performance.