dc.contributor.author | Miller, Nancy J. | |
dc.contributor.author | Engel-Enright, Carol | |
dc.contributor.author | Brown, David A. | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2021-09-09T14:46:08Z | |
dc.date.available | 2021-09-09T14:46:08Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2021 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Miller, N. J., Engel-Enright, C., & Brown, D. A. (2021). Direct and moderation effects on U.S. apparel manufacturers’ engagement in network ties. Journal of Entrepreneurship, Management and Innovation, 17(3), 67-113. https://doi.org/10.7341/20211733 | en |
dc.identifier.issn | 2299-7326 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://depot.ceon.pl/handle/123456789/20373 | |
dc.description.abstract | PURPOSE: Firms do not continue and prosper purely on their own individual endeavors,
as each firm is influenced by the activities of others, and thus direct and indirect
relationships shape the firm’s strategic management. These relationships form the
tactics by which knowledge and other strategically important resources are accessed
and created. Forming and maintaining ties among members of a network have
been the subject of numerous research studies in the social, economic, and business
literature. Our work is framed by the resource-based view of the firm perspective
along with social capital theory and its shared constructs in network theory. Prior
findings suggest that networking ties are strategic actions generated for firm growth
and continuance. The ties may be short-term or develop into long-term relationships.
The intent of this research is to fill some of the gaps in interorganizational networking
strategy by analyzing five antecedents that have been suggested in the literature as
individually associated with entrepreneurs’ engagement in network ties. In this way,
our work provides another research avenue for examining networking’s contribution
to strategic management. We hypothesized positive connections to entrepreneurs’
engagement in network ties from antecedents involving the firm’s knowledge
absorptive capacity, business goals, entrepreneurial orientation, social interactions,
and support from their environment. METHODOLOGY: In our quantitative approach,
we tested our proposed macrolevel direct and moderating connections through an
online survey of 125 U.S. apparel manufacturing firms. The apparel manufacturing
sector in the U.S., as in many countries, has struggled with multiple disrupting factors
contributing to the sector’s decline in firm continuance. FINDINGS: The results from
OLS regression analyses support our hypothesized connections in that each of the five
antecedents significantly contributed to entrepreneurs’ engagement in network ties;
however, when all five were collectively examined only absorptive capacity, social
interaction, and business goals were significant (R2 = 0.58). Further examination
of moderation effects found the entrepreneurs’ perceptions of a supportive
environment to modify both entrepreneurial orientation and business goals.
RESEARCH AND PRACTICAL IMPLICATIONS: The effects of a supportive environment
on business goals’ relationship with network ties were greater when perceptions of
a supportive environment decreased, while the effects of a supportive environment
on entrepreneurship orientation’s relationship with network ties were greater when
perceptions of a supportive environment increased suggesting further study of
U.S. entrepreneurs’ perceptions of their environments. Entrepreneurs’ interested in
building domestic and international supply chain ties may find network ties provide one
solution for adapting the firm’s resources for global competitiveness. Future studies
may direct attention to other industry sectors or countries for replication with larger
sample sizes as we recognize the limitations to generalizability and scale refinement
due to our limited sample size. ORIGINALITY AND VALUE: The examination of five
constructs to shed light on how an organization’s decisions may relate to engaging in
networks and provides theoretical as well as practical implications that contribute to
the larger organizational system framework. | en |
dc.language.iso | en | |
dc.publisher | Cognitione Foundation for the Dissemination of Knowledge and Science | en |
dc.rights | Uznanie autorstwa-Użycie niekomercyjne-Na tych samych warunkach 3.0 Polska | * |
dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/pl/ | * |
dc.subject | absorptive capacity | en |
dc.subject | social interaction | en |
dc.subject | business goals | en |
dc.subject | entrepreneurial orientation | en |
dc.subject | supporting environment | en |
dc.subject | network ties | en |
dc.title | Direct and moderation effects on U.S. apparel manufacturers’ engagement in network ties | en |
dc.type | article | en |
dc.contributor.organization | Colorado State University, USA | en |