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Understanding the relationship between entrepreneurial orientation and strategic learning capability: an empirical investigation
Author(s) -
Anderson Brian S.,
Covin Jeffrey G.,
Slevin Dennis P.
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
strategic entrepreneurship journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.061
H-Index - 46
eISSN - 1932-443X
pISSN - 1932-4391
DOI - 10.1002/sej.72
Subject(s) - entrepreneurial orientation , strategic management , business , empirical research , strategic planning , knowledge management , market orientation , structural equation modeling , proposition , strategic thinking , industrial organization , marketing , entrepreneurship , computer science , mathematics , philosophy , finance , epistemology , machine learning , statistics
Abstract This research explores the relationship between strategic learning capability—a firm's proficiency at generating, and then acting on, strategic knowledge—and entrepreneurial orientation (EO). While theory posits the inevitably of building strategic learning capability from behaving entrepreneurially, there is little empirical research to validate this proposition and even less understanding of how and why EO contributes to strategic learning capability. Empirical results from 110 manufacturing firms confirm the direct effect of EO on strategic learning capability, and support is found for three constructs—structural organicity, market responsiveness, and strategy formation mode—that fully mediate the EO‐strategic learning capability relationship. Copyright © 2009 Strategic Management Society.