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Entrepreneurial orientation and vertical knowledge acquisition by smallholder agricultural firms in transitional economies: The role of interfirm collaboration in value-chains
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posted on 2023-05-21, 13:16 authored by Dung, TQ, Lawrence BonneyLawrence Bonney, Adhikari, R, Miles, MPThis study extends the understanding of entrepreneurial orientation (EO), vertical knowledge acquisition, and actor collaboration to a "whole of value-chain" perspective in transitional economies by investigating a subsistence smallholder agricultural value-chain. It examines the relationships between EO and vertical knowledge acquisition and the role of value-chain collaboration. It also contributes to the understanding of entrepreneurship as an economic development tool by considering how EO moderates the effect of value-chain actor collaboration on acquiring market and consumer knowledge by subsistence upstream actors within value-chains. Data were collected through a survey of smallholder value-chain shifting from selling to local wet markets to selling to cattle collectors and traders and through a value-chain to retailers. The findings suggest that higher levels of EO by smallholders and SME agribusinesses enhance the acquisition of vertical knowledge such as market and consumer preference information throughout the value-chain, and interfirm collaboration positively moderates this relationship.
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Publication title
Journal of Business ResearchVolume
137Pagination
327-335ISSN
0148-2963Publisher
Elsevier Inc.Place of publication
United StatesRights statement
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