The Impact of Environmental, Firm, and Relational Factors on Entrepreneurs' Ethically Suspect Behaviors
研究澄清了创业者可疑道德行为的概念，并基于158位中国创业者的数据发现，环境动态性、企业绩效和关系社会资本均与这类行为负相关，企业绩效起部分中介作用。
Entrepreneurs’ engagement in ethically suspect behaviors (ESBs) can have seriously negative business and social consequences. Yet what defines entrepreneurs’ ESBs remains unclear. Further, little is known about what factors contribute to such behaviors. This study provides conceptual clarification of entrepreneurs’ ESBs and examines environmental, firm, and individual factors in relation to them. Results, based on data from 158 Chinese entrepreneurs, indicate that dynamism, firm performance, and relational social capital are all negatively related to ESBs. Firm performance partially mediates the relationship between dynamism and ESBs, and albeit with marginal support, the relationship between entrepreneurs’ relational social capital and their ESBs.