Reference
Rigtering, C., Kraus, S., Eggers, F., & Jensen, S. H. (2014). A Comparative Analysis of the Entrepreneurial Orientation/Growth Relationship in Service Firms and Manufacturing Firms. Service Industries Journal, 34(4), 275-294. (ABDC_2022: B; ABS_2021: 2; VHB_3: C)
Publication type
Article in Scientific Journal
Abstract
This article builds on the recently increasingly mentioned notion that entrepreneurship in the service sector is a worthwhile, but clearly underresearched topic. Using a sample of 1,612 small- and medium-size enterprises from the four German-speaking countries Germany, Austria, Switzerland, and Liechtenstein, and using structural equation modeling, this article finds that service firms have a significantly higher entrepreneurial orientation (EO) than manufacturing firms – both on the overall level as well as for each of the three sub-categories proactiveness, innovativeness, and risk-taking. With regards to the positive relationship between a firm's EO and its growth aspirations, nevertheless, no significant differences could be identified. Accordingly, this study shows that EO is a strategic orientation of highest value for service firms as well, under the premise of growth-orientation
Persons
Organizational Units
- Institute for Entrepreneurship
- Van Riemsdijk Chair in Entrepreneurship
- Competence Center for Entrepreneurship and Family Business
- Chair of Strategic Management and Entrepreneurship