Department of Management

 

ORCID IDs

Varkey Titus Jr. https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5771-6980

Date of this Version

2020

Citation

Published in Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice 2020, Vol. 44(4) 645–670

doi:10.1177/1042258719838473

Comments

Copyright © 2019 Titus, Parker, & Covins. Published by SAGE Publications. Used by permission.

Abstract

We contribute to the organizational aspirations and corporate venturing literature by theorizing and testing (a) the influence of a firm’s idiosyncratic strategic posture on behavioral responses to performance attainment discrepancies, and (b) that performance feedback may influence multifaceted yet thematically related forms of search. Specifically, we examine the influence of performance feedback on equity-based external corporate venturing. We then propose that a firm’s entrepreneurial orientation (EO) is a critical contingency when theorizing about how firms respond to attainment discrepancies. Our findings indicate that a firm’s EO is an important contingency when considering behavioral responses to attainment discrepancies.

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