Environmental Characteristics, Social Ties and Entrepreneurs Management Innovation Intention in Small and Medium Enterprises

摘要：

This article investigates the relationship between environmental characteristics, social ties and entrepreneurs management innovation intention in Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) to find out the factors that influencing the entrepreneurs management innovation intention. The results based on 152 samples from entrepreneurs of SMEs in Pearl River Delta indicate that entrepreneurs self-efficacy and business ties have a positive influence upon management innovation intention, while environmental dynamism has a nonlinear influence on innovation intention. Meanwhile entrepreneurs self-efficacy moderates the relation between environmental dynamism and management innovation intention such that management innovation intention will be higher in response to moderate environmental dynamism when entrepreneurs self-efficacy is high.

关键词： Environmental characteristics Social ties Entrepreneurs management innovation intention Small and medium enterprises

作者: HUANG Wenfeng ZHANG Jianqi ZHAO Wen

作者单位: International Business School, SunYat-sen University, Guangzhou, P.R. China, 510275 Lingnan College, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, P.R. China, 510275 School of Management Science and Engineering, Shanxi University of Finance & Economics, Taiyuan,P.R.

会议类型: 国际会议

会议名称: The 4th International Conference of Human Resource Strategy and Development(2011年第四届人力资源战略与开发国际会议 ICHRSD)

会议地点: 济南

会议语种:英文

页码: 366-373

在线出版日期: 2011-10-01（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）