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The effect of entrepreneurship, dual innovation on firm growth performance under the digitalization perspective: Evidence from China

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DOI: 10.23977/acccm.2024.060403 | Downloads: 18 | Views: 501

Author(s)

Quan Zhou 1, Guibin Chen 2, Zixuan Chen 3, Jing Xu 4

Affiliation(s)

1 Management College, Beijing Union University, Beijing, China
2 Beijing Johamu Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd, Beijing, China
3 University of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing, China
4 Science and Technology Division, Beijing Union University, Beijing, China

Corresponding Author

Jing Xu

ABSTRACT

China's economy is changing from resource-driven to innovation-driven, and how Technology-Based small and medium-sized enterprises, as an active group of innovation, can realize sustainable growth has gradually become an important issue. Based on the resource-based theory, this paper utilizes the survey data of 166 Technology-Based small and medium-sized enterprises in Beijing to develop a research model to establish the interaction effects of entrepreneurship, dual innovation, digitization level and the growth performance of enterprises, and examines the mediating effect of dual innovation and the moderating effect of digitization level. The results show that entrepreneurship has a significant direct positive effect on enterprise growth performance and can indirectly affect enterprise growth performance through dual innovation. Meanwhile, the level of digitization plays a negative moderating role in the influential relationship between entrepreneurship and exploitative innovation, while it plays a U-shaped moderating role in the influential relationship between entrepreneurship and exploratory innovation.

KEYWORDS

Technology-Based Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises; Entrepreneurship; Dual Innovation; Digitalization Level; Growth Performance

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Quan Zhou, Guibin Chen, Zixuan Chen, Jing Xu, The effect of entrepreneurship, dual innovation on firm growth performance under the digitalization perspective: Evidence from China. Accounting and Corporate Management (2024) Vol. 6: 20-33. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.23977/acccm.2024.060403.

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