Guo Li Xin, Liu Chi-Fang, Yain Yu-Sheng
School of Business, Huaiyin Institute of Technology, Huai'an, China.
Department of Business Administration, Cheng Shiu University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
Front Psychol. 2020 Jun 10;11:925. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2020.00925. eCollection 2020.
Scholars have begun to realize the importance of entrepreneurial political skills to new ventures. Namely, social entrepreneurship is a context, in which entrepreneurs expend great efforts in networking politically to integrate diverse resources and share interests (e.g., ecology wellness) for sustainability. In this paper, we integrate the social exchange theory and the resource-based view to discuss how social entrepreneurs' political skills enhance new ventures' performance through their social network (size/diversity and structural holes), and discuss how psychological capital in entrepreneurial contexts can influence new venture performance by political skills' functionality. By connecting significant entrepreneurship research constructs at different levels, this article not only enriches our knowledge about the ways in which social entrepreneurs' political skills and psychological capital affect the performance of ventures, but also offers new ventures some guidance on how to use political skill to improve their social networking and performance. Implications for social entrepreneurial sustainability are discussed.
学者们已开始认识到创业政治技能对新企业的重要性。具体而言，社会创业是这样一种情境，创业者在其中投入大量精力进行政治网络构建，以整合各种资源并为可持续发展共享利益（如生态健康）。在本文中，我们整合社会交换理论和资源基础观，来探讨社会创业者的政治技能如何通过其社会网络（规模/多样性和结构洞）提升新企业的绩效，并讨论创业情境中的心理资本如何通过政治技能的功能性影响新企业绩效。通过连接不同层面的重要创业研究构念，本文不仅丰富了我们对社会创业者的政治技能和心理资本影响企业绩效方式的认识，还为新企业提供了一些关于如何运用政治技能改善其社会网络和绩效的指导。文中还讨论了对社会创业可持续性的启示。
