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Exploring how entrepreneurial orientation improve firm resilience in digital era: findings from sequential mediation and FsQCA

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  • Qinghua Xia
  • Yi Xie
  • Shuchuan Hu
  • Jianmin Song

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Purpose - Under extensive pressure from normal market competition, frequent technological change and extreme exogenous shock, firms are facing severe challenge nowadays. How to withstand discontinuous crises and respond to normal risks through improving resilience (RE) is an important question worth researching. Thus, drawing on the strategic entrepreneurship theory, the purpose of this study is exploring the relationship between entrepreneurial orientation (EO) and RE, and combining digitization to discuss the role of digital business capability (DBC), digital business model innovation (DBMI) and environmental hostility (EH). Design/methodology/approach - Based on survey data from 203 Chinese firms, using the methods of linear regression and bootstrap to test our hypothesis. Furthermore, fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis (FsQCA) is used to identify previously unknown combinations which lead to strong/weak RE in digital context. Findings - First, EO positively influenced DBC and RE. Second, DBMI promoted RE, DBC and DBMI served as sequential mediators that linked EO and RE. Third, EH positively moderated the effects of EO on RE. Further the study revealed that different configuration of DBMI and dimensions of EO and DBC can explain RE. Originality/value - The study explains mechanism of RE from perspective of digitization. The conclusion is good for further consolidating strategic entrepreneurship theory, and providing a new frame for firms to build the ability of antifragile.

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  • Qinghua Xia & Yi Xie & Shuchuan Hu & Jianmin Song, 2022. "Exploring how entrepreneurial orientation improve firm resilience in digital era: findings from sequential mediation and FsQCA," European Journal of Innovation Management, Emerald Group Publishing Limited, vol. 27(1), pages 96-122, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:eme:ejimpp:ejim-12-2021-0593
    DOI: 10.1108/EJIM-12-2021-0593
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    1. Dinna Charisma & Bambang Hermanto & Margo Purnomo & Tetty Herawati, 2025. "Building Business Resilience Through Strategic Entrepreneurship: Evidence from Culinary Micro-Enterprises in Bandung During the COVID-19 Pandemic," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 17(6), pages 1-26, March.

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