How lead entrepreneurs resilience influence entrepreneurial performance in crisis time: A team-level perspective

Recently, the topic of entrepreneur resilience has attracted great attention. However, existing research has largely overlooked the interpersonal effect of entrepreneur resilience and the underlying team-level mechanisms through which it influences entrepreneurial performance. Drawing on social info...

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Main Authors: Jingjing Liu, Jiani Bao, Xiaohu Zhou, Qiao Wang, Zhouyue Wu
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Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2025-09-01
Series:Acta Psychologica
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description Recently, the topic of entrepreneur resilience has attracted great attention. However, existing research has largely overlooked the interpersonal effect of entrepreneur resilience and the underlying team-level mechanisms through which it influences entrepreneurial performance. Drawing on social information processing theory and Marks et al. (2001) team process taxonomy, we propose a sequential mediation model explaining how resilient lead entrepreneurs improve performance through new venture teams (NVTs). We conduct a field study with 71 NVTs and an online study with 66 NVTs to test the theoretical model. The results revealed that lead entrepreneur resilience develops team resilience, team resilience mediates the relationship between lead entrepreneur resilience and entrepreneurial performance, and team resilience and team reflexivity serially mediate the relationship between lead entrepreneur resilience and entrepreneurial performance. Through discussing the results, we highlight the theoretical contributions to existing research and provide practical suggestions for entrepreneurship and crisis management.
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spelling doaj-art-c0837d016e1b4207ae1db4dfc23d05542025-08-26T04:14:05ZengElsevierActa Psychologica0001-69182025-09-0125910542010.1016/j.actpsy.2025.105420How lead entrepreneurs resilience influence entrepreneurial performance in crisis time: A team-level perspectiveJingjing Liu0Jiani Bao1Xiaohu Zhou2Qiao Wang3Zhouyue Wu4School of Economics and Management, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing, ChinaSchool of Business Administration, Nanjing University of Finance and Economics, Nanjing, China; Corresponding author.School of Economics and Management, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing, ChinaSchool of Business Administration, Guizhou University of Finance and Economics, Guiyang, ChinaSchool of Economics and Management, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing, ChinaRecently, the topic of entrepreneur resilience has attracted great attention. However, existing research has largely overlooked the interpersonal effect of entrepreneur resilience and the underlying team-level mechanisms through which it influences entrepreneurial performance. Drawing on social information processing theory and Marks et al. (2001) team process taxonomy, we propose a sequential mediation model explaining how resilient lead entrepreneurs improve performance through new venture teams (NVTs). We conduct a field study with 71 NVTs and an online study with 66 NVTs to test the theoretical model. The results revealed that lead entrepreneur resilience develops team resilience, team resilience mediates the relationship between lead entrepreneur resilience and entrepreneurial performance, and team resilience and team reflexivity serially mediate the relationship between lead entrepreneur resilience and entrepreneurial performance. Through discussing the results, we highlight the theoretical contributions to existing research and provide practical suggestions for entrepreneurship and crisis management.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0001691825007334Lead entrepreneur resilienceTeam resilienceTeam reflexivityNew venture teamSocial information processing theory
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How lead entrepreneurs resilience influence entrepreneurial performance in crisis time: A team-level perspective
Acta Psychologica
Lead entrepreneur resilience
Team resilience
Team reflexivity
New venture team
Social information processing theory
title How lead entrepreneurs resilience influence entrepreneurial performance in crisis time: A team-level perspective
title_full How lead entrepreneurs resilience influence entrepreneurial performance in crisis time: A team-level perspective
title_fullStr How lead entrepreneurs resilience influence entrepreneurial performance in crisis time: A team-level perspective
title_full_unstemmed How lead entrepreneurs resilience influence entrepreneurial performance in crisis time: A team-level perspective
title_short How lead entrepreneurs resilience influence entrepreneurial performance in crisis time: A team-level perspective
title_sort how lead entrepreneurs resilience influence entrepreneurial performance in crisis time a team level perspective
topic Lead entrepreneur resilience
Team resilience
Team reflexivity
New venture team
Social information processing theory
url http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0001691825007334
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