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SMALL BUSINESS ECONOMICS
Volume 42, Issue 1, Pages 33-57Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s11187-012-9461-9
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Dynamic capabilities; Entrepreneurship; SME; Survey; Domain; Contingent effect; Firm age; Firm size
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The entrepreneurship and dynamic capabilities literature adds to our understanding of how strategic change can drive firm performance. We draw on a recent survey of US SMEs to determine whether entrepreneurial ventures have dynamic capabilities, and, if so, whether differences in the characteristics of those ventures lead to differences in how dynamic capabilities benefit firm performance. We find that most entrepreneurial ventures report having such capabilities and that their differences in age and size lead to differences in how dynamic capabilities affect firm performance. We consider how these results redefine the overlap of the dynamic capabilities view literature with the entrepreneurship literature, because the redeployment of resources to create and adapt to opportunities that defines what are dynamic capabilities lies at the core of what is entrepreneurial activity.
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