In an increasingly polarized world characterized by a socially and economically liberal-conservative divide, there is a growing need to understand the impacts of managers’ political ideology stances on the performance outcomes of their firms. Previous literature identified psychological resilience and an entrepreneurs-as-scientists (EaS) approach as potentially relevant mechanisms through which political ideology might shape firm performance.
Our study builds on stewardship theory and political psychology to examine the influence of founders’ political ideology, an EaS approach, and psychological resilience on new venture sustainability performance.
Using a sample featuring over 13,000 firm founders across 38 countries, our results provide evidence of a positive association between founders’ economic liberalism and sustainability performance. By contrast, we did not find such an association in relation to social conservatism. Moreover, it was found that a resilience-moderated EaS approach mediates the relationship between resilience-moderated economic liberalism and sustainability performance.
Tatiana Anisimova, holds a Ph.D in Marketing from Monash University, Australia. She is Associate Professor in Entrepreneurship and Marketing at the School of Business and Economics, Linnaeus University, Sweden. Tatiana is affiliated with GATE– Graduate School of Advanced Technology and Enterprising at Linnaeus University, which is Sweden's first doctoral school focused on the challenges faced by small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the digital transition.
Tatiana’s research interests include youth entrepreneurship and new venture performance, innovative ambidexterity, sustainable governance of forestry cooperatives, consumer psychology, marketing and behavioral sciences. Her research appeared in Journal of Business Research, International Small Business Journal, European Journal of Marketing, and International Journal of Consumer Studies, among others. Tatiana also has extensive consulting experience in social, governmental, marketing and communications research. Tatiana has been awarded a Visiting Scholar grant by the Erasmus+ EU program for international cooperation to undertake her visiting research scholar stay at the University of Bologna during the fall 2024.
The seminar will be held in English.
Major information: Elisa Villani (e.villani@unibo.it).