Title: The mediating role of entrepreneurial alertness in relationship between environmental dimensions and entrepreneurial commitment: entrepreneurial self-efficacy as moderating variables

Authors: Nur Khusniyah Indrawati; Ubud Salim; Djumahir; A. Helmi Djawahir

Addresses: Management Department, Economic and Business Faculty, Brawijaya University, 165 MT Haryono Street, Malang, East Java, Indonesia ' Management Department, Economic and Business Faculty, Brawijaya University, 165 MT Haryono Street, Malang, East Java, Indonesia ' Management Department, Economic and Business Faculty, Brawijaya University, 165 MT Haryono Street, Malang, East Java, Indonesia ' Management Department, Economic and Business Faculty, Brawijaya University, 165 MT Haryono Street, Malang, East Java, Indonesia

Abstract: The present study tested how environmental dimensions can have effect of entrepreneurial commitment through its impact on entrepreneurial alertness, as moderated by entrepreneurial self-efficacy. Data were collected from 26 SMEs in Malang at start-up phase. The general structured component analysis (GSCA) was used to overcome disadvantages of small samples. The results indicated that only environmental complexity and entrepreneurial self-efficacy affect on entrepreneurial alertness. The effect of environmental complexity was greater than entrepreneurial self-efficacy. The study also found that entrepreneurial self-efficacy is not as moderator, but the predictor of the relationship between environmental complexity and entrepreneurial alertness. Entrepreneurial alertness affects entrepreneurial commitment, but in opposite direction.

Keywords: entrepreneurial alertness; environmental complexity; entrepreneurial commitment; entrepreneurial self-efficacy; moderating variables; dynamics; munificence; entrepreneurship; Indonesia; SMEs; small and medium-sized enterprises.

DOI: 10.1504/IJESB.2015.072761

International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Small Business, 2015 Vol.26 No.4, pp.467 - 489

Received: 08 Oct 2014
Accepted: 01 Apr 2015
Published online: 28 Oct 2015 *

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