Research On The Relationship Among Entrepreneurship, Entrepreneurial Orientation And Entrepreneurial Performance

Whether in developed countries or developing ones, it has been accepted generally that entrepreneurs has very large influence to promote the national economy and development. After30years of reform and opening up, China’s economic development has achieved remarkable results, and entrepreneurship has become a powerful booster to promote the country’s economic development and settle the employment problem.With entrepreneurial activity playing an important role in pushing on the process of reform and accelerating the economic and social development, China has fully recognized and affirmed the contribution and impact of new start-ups, and it’s expecting that the growth of GDP will rely more on innovation enterprises. In recent years, many enterprises get IPO in NASDAQ such as JD.com, Jumei.com and Alibaba.com, which joined the club not long ago, we can see the economic has been changed from the traditional "management economy" gradually transformed into "entrepreneurial economy". The theories and researches in the past show that corporate entrepreneurship has very important impact on new firm performance, which is called entrepreneurial performance also, and that the corporate entrepreneurship accelerates entrepreneurship growth has been generally recognized especially, and scholars think that corporate entrepreneurship is the key factor to business success.On the basis of reviewing and summarizing the existing literatures about entrepreneurs of home and abroad, this paper focuses on the influence that corporate entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial orientation exert on new firm performance. Firstly, this paper uses corporate entrepreneurship to analyze, explain and study the influence that it has on new firm performance, and then takes entrepreneurial orientation into the process in which corporate entrepreneurship exerts influence on new firm performance according to the literature support, which build the conception model of corporate entrepreneurship, entrepreneurial orientation and new firm performance. On this basis, this paper interviewed the start-ups founders and business executives of156enterprises mostly of the internet industry and mobile internet industry in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen, collected data via questionnaires, and analyzed the influence relationships between corporate entrepreneurship, entrepreneurial orientation and new firm performance through the empirical study.Through the analysis, the paper draws these conclusions majorly as follows:1, There are significant positive relationships between corporate entrepreneurship, entrepreneurial orientation and new firm performance, furthermore, both corporate entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial orientation can promote new firm performance evidently.2, In general, entrepreneurial orientation plays an intermediary role partly to the twi-dimension influences corporate entrepreneurship having on new firm performance, specifically the innovativeness and risk taking of entrepreneurial orientation play an intermediary role partly to the relationship between corporate entrepreneurship and the survival and growing performance of new firms, and the advance action dimension of entrepreneurial orientation plays an intermediary role partly to the influence corporate entrepreneurship having on new firm survival performance, but plays an intermediary role completely to the influence corporate entrepreneurship having on new firm growing performance.3, Among the classification of industries on the enterprise level, the internet industry has more positive influence on new firms’ survival and growing performance than non internet industry does.The paper inspects the logical connection of corporate entrepreneurship and new firm performance, opens the black box larger which corporate entrepreneurship puts on new firm performance, enriches the entrepreneurship theory, and helps to guide the development the enterprises.