Quit the Politicking? How Factors Within Strategic Business Unit Teams Shape Returns from Entrepreneurial Orientation
研究了战略业务单元团队的政治氛围如何削弱创业导向对绩效的正面作用，并发现团队领导自主权能缓解这种负面影响，基于印度一家大型IT公司的320名团队领导和1181名项目经理数据。
In this study, we examine the entrepreneurial orientation (EO), political behavior, and discretion of leaders within an organization’s strategic business unit (SBU) customer portfolio teams to determine whether and how an SBU team’s political environment affects its performance. Building upon EO as theory of new value creation, we argue that politically charged SBU teams are less capable of translating EO into improved performance. However, we observe the harmful influence of SBU team politics on the EO-performance relationship is partially alleviated when SBU team leaders have greater discretion over their units’ actions. We examine our theoretical model using robust data collected from 320 SBU team leaders and 1181 reporting SBU project managers within a large multi-national information technology firm headquartered in India. Implications for theory and practice are discussed.