Moderating influences on the firm's strategic orientation-performance relationship

This paper is focused on the factors that moderate the relationship between firm's strategic orientation and performance in small and medium-sized firms. Much prior research has focused simply on identifying environmental conditions conducive to the effectiveness of the strategic orientation approach. However, recent research has called for studies focused on investigating internal moderators of the strategic orientation-performance relationship. As a result, we propose a contingency framework, considering how corporate and competitive strategies, top management characteristics, and environmental conditions may moderate this relationship. Based on a survey of 295 small and medium sized enterprises pertaining to seven manufacturing sectors, our study shows that the positive influence of firm's strategic orientation may be moderated by the environment conditions, the previous experience of top management team, and the corporate and competitive strategies developed by the firm

A Corporate Social Entrepreneurship Approach to Market-Based Poverty Reduction

In this article, we aim to conceptualize a market-based approach to poverty reduction from a corporate social entrepreneurship (CSE) perspective. Specifically, we describe some market-based initiatives at the base of the economic pyramid and relate them to the social entrepreneurship literature. We refer to the entrepreneurial activities of multinational corporations that create social value as CSE. We then conceptualize CSE according to the corporate entrepreneurship and social entrepreneurship domains and shed light on how corporations can implement CSE. Finally, by reviewing relevant literature, we propose some of the factors that can stimulate CSE in organizations and some of the benefits companies can gain by implementing CSE

Civic Wealth Creation: A New View of Stakeholder Engagement and Societal Impact

Positive societal change happens when community members, supporters, and entrepreneurially minded agents come together to aggregate resources and build new capacities. To explain and inform how societal impact happens across categories of stakeholders, we set forth an integrative framework of civic wealth creation to account for the social, economic, and communal endowments generated by local communities. Our framework shifts the conversation to a “civic” level of analysis that captures the variety of local settings where many societal change initiatives take place—in neighborhoods, villages, and communities where the people who are being helped are intimately involved in creating and implementing the solutions. Civic wealth extends beyond the material resources and physical assets of a community to include intangibles such as health, happiness, and social justice. We draw attention to the importance of citizen engagement and entrepreneurial commerce in the discourse surrounding contemporary societal change efforts. The civic wealth creation framework offers scholars and practitioners across disciplines a new lens through which to view societal impact

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