Chen, Wenting, Han, Chunjia, Wang, Lei, Ieromonachou, Petros ORCID: 0000-0002-5842-9585 and Lu, Xiaochen (2019) Recognition of entrepreneur’s social ties and firm innovation in emerging markets: explanation from the industrial institutional environment and survival pressure. Asia Pacific Journal of Management, 38 (2). pp. 491-518. ISSN 0217-4561 (Print), 1572-9958 (Online) (doi:https://doi.org/10.1007/s10490-019-09680-2)

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Abstract

Despite the extensive attention to the role of entrepreneurs’ business or political ties, few studies have distinguished the basis of those social ties. The aim of this study is to explore the different roles of the entrepreneurs’ personalized and formal social ties on the firms’ innovation performance. Based on renqing and formal rules, this study extends the social ties’ typology into four categories, namely, transactional business ties, transactional political ties, guanxi business ties, and guanxi political ties. Using data collected from 209 Chinese firms, we further identify the distinctive contributions of the different ties on the entrepreneurial firm’s innovation performance under different institutional environments and entrepreneurs’ survival pressure. This paper will help researchers and managers better understand the function of social ties in innovation in emerging markets, such as China.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	social ties, Guanxi, enforcement inefficiency, survival pressure, innovation performance
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > HB Economic Theory
Faculty / School / Research Centre / Research Group:	Faculty of Business Faculty of Business > Department of Systems Management & Strategy Faculty of Business > Networks and Urban Systems Centre (NUSC) Faculty of Business > Networks and Urban Systems Centre (NUSC) > Connected Cities Research Group
Last Modified:	31 Aug 2021 14:07
URI:	http://gala.gre.ac.uk/id/eprint/24815

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