What affects nascent entrepreneurs’ proactiveness

Abstract Proactiveness is a pervasive phenomenon in entrepreneurial organisations, however, the existing literatures mainly focus on entrepreneurial orientation, proactiveness is only regarded as one dimension of EO, and most studies on EO are at the level of firm, not the individual. Based on effectuation theory, this study utilized data from CPSED and examined the antecedents of nascent entrepreneurs' proactiveness. We find that entrepreneurial experience has a positive effect on nascent entrepreneurs’ proactiveness while management education and systematic search have negative effect. These findings add to the effectuation and entrepreneurial proactiveness literatures.

• Publication year

  2019

• Venue

  Asia-Pacific Management Review

• Publication date

  2019-12-01

• Fields of study

  Business, Economics

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  DOI 10.1016/J.APMRV.2018.12.001
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