How entrepreneurial orientation facilitates the identification of new opportunities in newly established ventures in emerging economies remains largely unexplored. Approaching entrepreneurial orientation as a second order latent construct, we examined the mediating role of opportunity recognition on new venture performance. Using a survey data from 316 SMEs, the results of the analysis in SmartPLS highlights that entrepreneurial orientation indirectly contributes to the performance of new ventures, where the relationship is partially mediated by opportunity recognition. The findings show that firms with high entrepreneurial orientation can identify and exploit new opportunities as well as enjoy superior performance.

创业导向如何促进新兴经济体新成立的企业中新机会的发现仍未得到充分探索。将企业家导向作为二阶潜在构建体，我们研究了机会识别对新企业绩效的中介作用。使用来自316家中小型企业的调查数据，SmartPLS中的分析结果突出表明，创业导向间接地促进了新企业的绩效，其中这种关系部分地由机会识别来调节。调查结果表明，具有高度创业导向的公司可以发现和利用新的机会，并享有卓越的业绩。