Sustainable Entrepreneurship Team Scale Development: A Complex Systems Perspective

• Main Authors: Shengli Dai, Hongyan Xue, Yuan Jiang, Wei Zhang, Xin Zhang
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: MDPI AG 2018-11-01
• Series: Sustainability
• Subjects: sustainable entrepreneurship; team; complex systems; scale
• Online Access: https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/10/11/4199

This paper primarily focuses on two questions: (1) “How is a sustainable entrepreneurship team (SET) formed?„; and (2) “What factors contribute to effective SET?„. Based on the model of Baron and Henry (2011), we adopt a process view of SET development and propose a conceptual model of a SET work that includes four key elements: (1) Sustainable entrepreneurial motivation; (2) sustainable entrepreneurial opportunity recognition; (3) knowledge resources acquirement; and (4) sustainable entrepreneurial outcome. Furthermore, based on complex systems theory, we elaborate on how individual entrepreneurs form a SET. We also develop a SET scale and provide some initial empirical support for our conceptual model. Finally, based on our qualitative and quantitative results, we offer suggestions for Research Question 2.