An Empirical Study on Entrepreneurial Orientation, Absorptive Capacity, and SMEs’ Innovation Performance: A Sustainable Perspective
Summary. This study surveyed 324 small and medium-sized enterprises in China's Yangtze River Delta region to examine how entrepreneurial orientation drives innovation performance. The research found that entrepreneurial orientation directly boosts innovation, and this effect strengthens when firms have higher absorptive capacity. In highly dynamic external environments, absorptive capacity becomes an even more powerful moderator of this relationship.
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Zhai, Y., Sun, W., Tsai, S., Wang, Z., Zhao, Y., & Chen, Q.. (2018). An Empirical Study on Entrepreneurial Orientation, Absorptive Capacity, and SMEs’ Innovation Performance: A Sustainable Perspective. Sustainability. https://doi.org/10.3390/su10020314
Zhai, Yuming, et al. “An Empirical Study on Entrepreneurial Orientation, Absorptive Capacity, and SMEs’ Innovation Performance: A Sustainable Perspective.” Sustainability, 2018. https://doi.org/10.3390/su10020314.
Zhai, Yuming, Wan-Qin Sun, Sang‐Bing Tsai, Zhen Wang, Yu Zhao, and Quan Chen. 2018. “An Empirical Study on Entrepreneurial Orientation, Absorptive Capacity, and SMEs’ Innovation Performance: A Sustainable Perspective.” Sustainability. https://doi.org/10.3390/su10020314.
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title = {An Empirical Study on Entrepreneurial Orientation, Absorptive Capacity, and SMEs’ Innovation Performance: A Sustainable Perspective},
author = {Yuming Zhai and Wan-Qin Sun and Sang‐Bing Tsai and Zhen Wang and Yu Zhao and Quan Chen},
journal = {Sustainability},
year = {2018},
doi = {10.3390/su10020314},
url = {https://doi.org/10.3390/su10020314}
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- DOI
- 10.3390/su10020314
- Countries
- China
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- Asia
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- entrepreneurship, innovation-theory, general-innovation
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- 2026-04-28