Antecedents of Innovativeness: Entrepreneurial Team Characteristics and Networking

Examining the antecedents of knowledge sharing in facilitating team innovativeness from a multilevel perspective

This paper examines how transformational leadership (TFL) climate influences employees’ team identity and their intentions to share knowledge and how team knowledge sharing intention subsequently influences team innovativeness. Data was collected from 301 employees comprising 52 R&D teams. Hypotheses were tested with both hierarchical linear modeling (HLM) and regression analyses. Results indic...

Aexploring the Antecedents of Entrepreneurial Alertness: Interactions between Individual and Environmental Characteristics

ACADEMIC ABSTRACT The current research incorporates individual as well as environmental effects in examining the antecedents of entrepreneurial alertness. Entrepreneurial alertness rests with the asymmetric knowledge that entrepreneurs develop and that others do not. People have different stocks of information because information is generated through people's idiosyncratic life experiences. The...

The Dimensions and Antecedents of Team Virtuality

Examining the Antecedents and Outcomes of Romanian Entrepreneurial Orientation

The purpose of the current study is to examine the impact of Romanian entrepreneurs’ thinking styles on their entrepreneurial orientation (EO) and emotional intelligence (EI). More specifically, we examine how thinking style and risk preference – both separately and interactively – contribute to an individual’s EO and EI. In addition, we examine the ways in which EO and EI impact affective orga...

Antecedents and Consequences of Team Boundary Disagreement

Existing research and theory on groups and teams is built on the underlying assumption that the members of teams agree as to who are and who are not their teammates. In a study of 43 software development teams in a large multinational software company, I question this assumption and provide a first examination of the phenomenon of intra-team boundary disagreement and the mechanisms underlying i...