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The Scene Of Performance Feedback In The Company's Entrepreneurial Decision To Adjust The Focus And Control Mechanism

Posted on:2007-10-24Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:L ZhangFull Text:PDF
GTID:2199360212457204Subject:Business management
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In the face of globalization of world economy, rapidly innovatory technology, and various problems produced in the process of development of corporations, many scholars had pointed out that entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial action was indispensable for improving the capacity of innovation and long-term steady progress in the competitive environment. Studies on corporate entrepreneurship used to be concentrated mostly in the connotation, thus were deficient in studying on process mechanisms and considering multilevel factors, and studies on actual entrepreneurial action was even more infrequent. Just based on the pressing requirement of the actual and theoretical situations stated hereinbefore, for the propose of better comprehending and prognosticating the engenderment of entrepreneurial action, this paper cut in the research at the point of the process mechanisms of decision-making of corporate entrepreneurial action, based on the visual angle of strategic decision-making, introduced regulatory focus theory and locus of control theory, to launch a series of exploring empirical study on the process and mechanisms of corporate entrepreneurial action formation.In Chapter Four, we adopted the methods of semi-structural interview and cases study, in the purpose of establishing the actual background of dynamic process and factor function mechanisms of corporate decision-making, and validating the rationality of model. The interviews almost validated the original model and provided actual foundation for the extended empirical study, and put in environmental dynamism and environmental hostility as control variable. The study on the cases indicated, (1) the performance feedback was exactly the significant foundation to which leaders of the corporation made decisions according. But no matter how the performance of the corporation changed, the entrepreneurial action always was likely to come into being, only different in types; (2)The more top decision-maker preferred risk-taking and internal control, the more he tends to be an entrepreneur; (3) the tendency of situational promotion focus of an enterprise impelled the entrepreneurial action and innovative action.In Chapter Five, we adopted the method of questionnaire research, for the purposes of unveiling the formation of entrepreneurial intention, the key factors that affected the process of decision-making, and the function mechanisms. On the basis of the 152 questionnaires valid, we made exploratory factor analysis, correlation analysis, regression analysis and analysis of variances. The study indicated, (1) The...
Keywords/Search Tags:performance feedback, risk propensity, regulatory focus, locus of control, entrepreneurial intention
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