ABSTRACT

This study explores configurations for firm-environment alignment of entrepreneurial opportunity exploitation in technology-based ventures to explain firm performance. Classifying entrepreneurial opportunities by their source and location as technology driven and market driven, we develop a framework to investigate a multitude of factors in the firm and in the environment that influence firm performance only when aligned with each other. The study examines technology-based ventures using fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis. Our results highlight the presence of complete firm-environment alignment of technological and market opportunity exploitation in cases with very high organizational growth rates. High-growth cases are driven by market opportunity exploitation. Firm-environment misalignment characterizes low-growth cases. Our results extend entrepreneurial opportunity exploitation literature to encompass a configurational setting from a quality perspective and provides entrepreneurs, managers, and policy-makers with informed choices of alternative growth strategies when focusing on organizational and policy priorities.

摘要

本研究探讨了基于技术的企业中创业机会开发的企业环境调整配置，以解释企业绩效。根据技术驱动和市场驱动的来源和位置将创业机会分类，我们开发了一个框架来调查公司和环境中的众多因素，这些因素只有在相互协调时才会影响公司绩效。该研究使用模糊集定性比较分析来检验基于技术的企业。我们的结果强调，在组织增长率非常高的情况下，技术和市场机会开发的企业环境完全一致。高增长案例是由市场机会开发驱动的。企业环境失调是低增长案例的特征。