Political participation and new venture decentralization: an attention-based view

Di Song, Xuan Huang

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Abstract

Drawing on the attention-based view, we examine how political participation influences the decentralization of new ventures. Using a sample of 6,077 new ventures from a China’s nationwide survey, we find that political participation encourages entrepreneurs to allocate more managerial attention to external activities, which in turn induces their ventures to implement a more decentralized decision-making system. Moreover, entrepreneurs are more likely to allocate their attention to external activities when their ownership is low and government intervention is more prominent. This study makes several theoretical contributions to the research on the origin of new venture decentralization, the attention-based view, and the political participation literature.

Original languageEnglish
Article number104256
JournalSmall Business Economics
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 22 Jan 2025

Keywords

  • Attention-based view
  • Entrepreneurial strategy
  • Entrepreneurship
  • New venture decentralization
  • Organizational design
  • Political participation

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • General Business,Management and Accounting
  • Economics and Econometrics

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