15345: Entrepreneur-as-Scientist, Founder Resilience, and New Venture Performance: A Multi-Country Analysis (session 26149)

Sunday, July 27, 2025

12:00 - 13:30 CEST (GMT+2)

Location: Bella Center: Hall B- B3-m9

Session Type: Paper Session
Orientation: International,Research
Shareable link: https://cdmcd.co/WyxM8B

Author(s)

GS

Galina Shirokova

National Research U. Higher School of Economics, St. Petersburg, Russia

Slides
KV

Kseniia Veksler

National Research U. Higher School of Economics, St. Petersburg
DD

Daria Dvorkina

National Research U. Higher School of Economics, St. Petersburg
PK

Panagiotis Kokkalis

Rochester Institute of Technology Dubai, United Arab Emirates
YL

Younggeun Lee

California State U., Los Angles, United States

Organizational leaders today face ongoing changes due to an unstable business environment, leading to challenges in effectively managing their companies. In this regard, scholars have increasingly focused on strategies that can assist business owners in managing uncertainty. This article aims to analyze the relationship between a scientific approach to entrepreneurship and new venture performance, examining mediating effect of the founder’s resilience, and the moderating effects of the stage of country’s economic development. Drawing on the entrepreneur-as-scientist (EaS) approach, we examine the mediating role of founder resilience on the relationship between a scientific approach in entrepreneurial decision-making and new venture performance, and explore the moderating effects of economic development stage on the founder resilience–new venture performance relationship. Using a sample of 19,071 new ventures from 47 countries, we demonstrate that a scientific approach to decision-making positively influences new venture performance, with founder resilience mediating this relationship. Moreover, the stage of economic development has an inverse effect on the link between founder resilience and performance.

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