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How Does Entrepreneurial Team Relational Governance Promote Social Start-Ups' Organizational Resilience?
Yingping Mai1, Yenchun Jim Wu2,3, Yu-Min Wang4
1Business School, Huaqiao University, Quanzhou 362021, China.
Summary
Relational governance, particularly trust, enhances social start-up resilience through team learning. Effective communication and shared vision also foster team learning, crucial for navigating crises and achieving sustained growth.
Area of Science:
- Social Entrepreneurship
- Organizational Behavior
- Crisis Management
Background:
- Social entrepreneurial teams face unique challenges in crisis situations.
- Understanding factors influencing organizational resilience and sustained growth is critical.
- Relational governance mechanisms within teams are proposed as key drivers.
Purpose of the Study:
- To investigate how relational governance within entrepreneurial teams impacts social start-ups' crisis adaptability.
- To examine the mediating role of team learning in the relationship between relational governance and organizational resilience.
- To identify specific relational governance dimensions that foster resilience and growth.
Main Methods:
- Survey research conducted with 396 members of social entrepreneurial teams.
- Analysis of the effects of trust, shared vision, and communication-cooperation on organizational resilience.
- Assessment of the mediating role of team learning in the governance-resilience link.
Main Results:
- Team trust positively influences organizational resilience; shared vision and communication-cooperation do not directly.
- All dimensions of relational governance positively impact team learning, which in turn enhances organizational resilience.
- Team learning fully mediates the impact of shared vision and communication-cooperation, and partially mediates the impact of trust, on resilience.
- Team learning is the primary factor for organizational resilience, with communication-cooperation being the strongest driver of team learning.
Conclusions:
- Strengthening social start-up resilience requires enhancing team members' understanding of environmental adaptability.
- Fostering productive dialogue and improving information integration capabilities are essential.
- Establishing agreed-upon actions and activities is crucial for effective crisis management and sustained growth.
Keywords:
entrepreneurial teamorganizational resiliencesocial entrepreneurial team relational governancesocial entrepreneurshipsocial start-upsteam learningMore Related Videos
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