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The Relationship between Entrepreneurial Self-Efficacy and Firm Performance: A Meta-Analysis of Main and Moderator Effects
Abstract
Entrepreneurial self-efficacy (ESE) is an important construct in entrepreneurship research. It captures entrepreneurs’ specific self-efficacy in accomplishing entrepreneurial tasks. Because various empirical results exist in past studies of the ESE-firm performance relationship, we employed meta-analysis to review and synthesize the current literature concerning this relationship and to address moderators that influence it. We meta-analyzed 27 samples from 26 studies with a total sample size of 5,065 firms and found that the corrected ESE-firm performance correlation is 0.309. We found that the firm performance measurement is a significant moderator and we suggest scholars to further identify moderators.
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Metadata
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- Miao, C., Qian, S., & Ma, D.
- Venue
- Journal of Small Business Management
- Publisher
- Informa UK Limited
- Published
- 2016-03-01
- Volume
- 55
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 87-107
- ISSN
- 0047-2778 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2288832483
- Cited by
- 286
- References
- 136
- FWCI
- 2.57
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Licence
- doi.wiley.com/10.1002/tdm_license_1 (tdm)
- onlinelibrary.wiley.com/termsAndConditions (vor)
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