The literature on entrepreneurial orientation (EO) has confirmed the positive relationship between EO and firm performance and that relationship's dependence on several contingencies. The present study connects the resource-based view and its dynamic capability extension to introduce absorptive...

Building on research that has shown that a firm's entrepreneurial orientation (EO) depends on environmental factors, we argue that EO is a firm's reaction to its institutional environment and use the dimensions of individualism and uncertainty avoidance to investigate the single and combined...