Entrepreneurial Versatility, Resources and Firm Performance in Russia: A Panel Study

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Entrepreneurial Versatility, Resources and Firm Performance in Russia: A Panel Study

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Bat Batjargal

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Drawing on the Upper-Echelons Perspective and Resource-Based View of the firm this paper explores effects of human-based resources of entrepreneurs, viz., social capital, human capital and entrepreneurial versatility, on firm performance in the context of a large transition economy - the Russian Federation. The empirical data is comprised of the face-to-face interviews with 75 Russian entrepreneurs in 1995 and the follow-up interviews with 56 original respondents in 1999. The finding suggests that entrepreneurial versatility have stronger positive impacts on firm performance in comparison to general human-based

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Paper provided by William Davidson Institute at the University of Michigan Stephen M. Ross Business School in its series William Davidson Institute Working Papers Series with number 351.

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