Research On The Relationship Between Entrepreneurial Team Mood And Entrepreneurial Performance

In the practice of management, managers always focus their attention on the visible structure of entrepreneurial team instead of the visible structure, that is, entrepreneurial team mood. In fact, the quality of entrepreneurial team mood plays important impacts on entrepreneurial performance and good entrepreneurial team mood gives the new ventures a competitive edge over other ones without it. From the perspective of entrepreneurial team mood, this paper first makes an introduction about the content of entrepreneurial team mood, entrepreneurial team learning and entrepreneurial performance, followed by a discussion about the influences of entrepreneurial team mood and entrepreneurial team learning on entrepreneurial performance together with the exploration about the role of entrepreneurial team learning between entrepreneurial team mood and entrepreneurial performance.More than 505 employees in 125 different kinds of Chinese enterprises from more than 8 cities are surveyed with the research methods such as exploratory factor analysis, confirmatory factor analysis and regression analysis. Research tools consist of entrepreneurial team mood questionnaire, entrepreneurial team learning questionnaire and entrepreneurial performance questionnaire, which all enjoy high reliability and validity.The results reveal as follows: entrepreneurial team mood consists of four factors listed as identity, effectiveness, pleasant feeling as well as security feeling; entrepreneurial team learning is the partially mediate variable in the relationship between entrepreneurial team mood and entrepreneurial performance; entrepreneurial team mood shows no significant differences in the development stages of new ventures.Finally, the study points out the existence of deficiencies and problems to be solved.