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New venture top management team's shared leadership and its indirect effect on strategic performance: findings from SEM and fsQCA

Jun Yu (School of Economics and Management, Shanghai Maritime University, Shanghai, China)
Zhengcong Ma (School of Economics and Management, Shanghai Maritime University, Shanghai, China)
Wenhao Song (School of Economics and Management, Shanghai Maritime University, Shanghai, China)

Leadership & Organization Development Journal

ISSN: 0143-7739

Article publication date: 7 March 2022

Issue publication date: 6 April 2022

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Abstract

Purpose

The purpose of this study is to empirically explore the relationship between a new venture top management team's (NVTMT’s) shared leadership and strategic performance in opportunity recognition and entrepreneurial bricolage by drawing on the upper echelons theory.

Design/methodology/approach

Data were collected from 344 new manufacturing ventures located in Eastern China. The hypotheses were tested using structural equation modelling (SEM) through the AMOS 23.0 software package. The confluence of the contextual factors of the new venture is examined by a fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA).

Findings

The results indicate that NVTMT shared leadership has an indirect and positive effect on strategic performance through opportunity recognition, especially in a highly uncertain environment, while the mediating effect of entrepreneurial bricolage is not significant. Furthermore, although the SEM results show that the impact of NVTMT shared leadership on entrepreneurial bricolage is negative, the fsQCA shows that NVTMT shared leadership can significantly and positively affect entrepreneurial bricolage in an environment with high uncertainty, ultimately enhancing strategic performance.

Originality/value

This study contributes to the shared leadership literature by proposing a model on how shared leadership shapes the strategic performance of new ventures via opportunity recognition and entrepreneurial bricolage. The findings not only enrich relevant research on the upper echelons theory, but also help in understanding the patterns of contextual conditions that facilitate the value-adding properties of NVTMT shared leadership.

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Citation

Yu, J., Ma, Z. and Song, W. (2022), "New venture top management team's shared leadership and its indirect effect on strategic performance: findings from SEM and fsQCA", Leadership & Organization Development Journal, Vol. 43 No. 3, pp. 435-456. https://doi.org/10.1108/LODJ-05-2021-0234

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Emerald Publishing Limited

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