Proactiveness, Stakeholder–Firm Power Difference, and Product Safety and Quality of Chinese SMEs
研究了中小企业主动性如何影响企业与政府和媒体的权力差异，进而影响产品安全与质量，发现主动性可缩小与政府和媒体的权力差距，但政府权力差距减少产品问题，媒体权力差距则损害产品优势。
Despite an abundance of research on entrepreneurial orientation and various dimensions of firm financial performance, very little is known about the specific influence of proactiveness on performance. In the current research, we explore the role of proactiveness in firms’ interaction with the external environment. In particular, we examine the influence of proactiveness in stakeholder–firm power difference. Further, we investigate the extent to which stakeholder–firm power difference affects product safety and quality. Using a sample of 144 Chinese small– and medium–sized enterprises (SMEs), we found that proactiveness can decrease government– and media–firm power differences. Government–firm power difference reduces product concerns, yet media–firm power difference deteriorates the purported product strengths for Chinese SMEs.