Configurations of business founder resources, strategy, and environment determining new venture performance
采用配置视角，通过规则集成方法分析853家新创企业，发现创始人资源、战略与环境之间的相互依赖关系决定了企业盈利能力，并识别出五种增强盈利和两种降低盈利的配置规则。
We advance a configurational perspective that assumes a new venture’s performance, operationalized as profitability in this study, is determined by interdependencies among its founder(s)’s resources (i.e., human, social, and financial capital), its strategy, and environmental munificence. Using Rule Ensembles, a semiparametric set-theoretic method, we conduct an abductive investigation using a sample of 853 new ventures. The Rule Ensembles technique identifies five multivariate interdependencies (rules) that enhance new venture profitability and two that reduce it. Indicators of business founder resources are involved in all of the seven model rules. Four configurational rules, including a strategy and/or environmental component, equally emerge.