TY - GEN A1 - Röder, Martin A1 - Urbig, Diemo A1 - Stöckmann, Christoph A1 - Bönte, Werner A1 - Procher, Vivien D. T1 - There's no fox like an old fox: Dimensions of entrepreneurial orientation and venture closure T2 - 26th Annual Interdisciplinary Conference on Entrepreneurship, Innovation and SMEs, 2023 N2 - Only a few scholars examined downsides of EO and suggest it may negatively affect survival. Previous research, which mainly focuses on mature companies, assumes that the relationship between EO and survival is constant. However, because firm characteristics and causal mechanisms change as young venture survive and grow into mature firms, the relationships between EO and survival could also change over time. We extend the EO literature by considering changing EO effects when venture grow into mature firms and by employing a multidimensional view on EO and identify isolating independent mechanisms for the influence of each dimension (i.e. innovativeness, proactiveness and risk-taking) on the survival of young ventures. While the nature of proactiveness on performance is rathe positive, risk-taking and innovativeness increases the variance of firm performance and thus the chances of failure. However, the latter can be separated according to whether the increase in variance occurs at a single point in time (risk-taking) or over time (innovation) and whether the survivors have more money or more innovations. For young firms, innovativeness and risk-taking inhibit survival, while proactiveness promotes it, so the dimensions have divergent effects. As a consequence of the attrition of young ventures, the associations of innovativeness and risk-taking reverse when they grow older. Our empirical analyses are based on panel data of 8,518 young firms. KW - Entrepreneurship KW - Survival KW - Failure KW - Entrepreneurial orientation KW - time-varying Cox proportional hazard model Y1 - 2023 UR - https://www.researchgate.net/publication/379155763 UR - https://www.fgf-ev.de/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/G-Forum-2023-Programmgeruest_18-09-2023_Internet.pdf ER - TY - GEN A1 - Urbig, Diemo A1 - Bönte, Werner A1 - Schmutzler, Jana A1 - Zambrano-Curcio, Andrés Felipe A1 - Andonova, Veneta T1 - Diverging associations of dimensions of competitiveness with gender and personality T2 - Personality and Individual Differences N2 - More attention must be paid to the multidimensional nature of competitiveness to better understand how competitiveness relates to personality and gender. We focus on three dimensions: Desire to Win (DW), Personal Development competitiveness (PD), and Enjoyment of Competition (EC). Our empirical exploratory analysis is based on a large sample of 1520 individuals. We control for interdimensional correlations, correct for multiple testing, and use conservative thresholds to provide robust evidence on dimension-specific associations of competitiveness with personality, operationalized via the HEXACO framework, and gender. Independent of the respectively other competitiveness dimensions, DW relates to less honesty-humility and less agreeableness, PD to more emotionality, and EC to more extraversion and less emotionality. EC is the sole source of gender differences among the correlated competitiveness dimensions. KW - Competitiveness KW - Personality KW - Gender KW - Survey KW - Enjoyment of competition KW - Desire to win KW - Personal development competitiveness Y1 - 2021 UR - https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0191886921001501 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2021.110775 SN - 0191-8869 VL - 176 ER -