Many roads lead to Rome: How improvisation and absorptive capacity affect entrepreneurial orientation and new venture performance relationship

• Wei Sun ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Wei Sun, Xilin Hou, Li Liang

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: swtj1990@126.com

  Affiliations School of Management, Jiangsu University of Technology, Changzhou, China, School of Economics and Management, Tongji University, Shanghai, China

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0759-3166

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• Xilin Hou ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Wei Sun, Xilin Hou, Li Liang

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Business Administration, University of Science and Technology Liaoning, Anshan, China

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• Li Liang ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Wei Sun, Xilin Hou, Li Liang

  Roles Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Teaching Research Department, Urban Governance and Crisis Management Research Center, China Executive Leadership Academy Pudong, Shanghai, China

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• Xiaoliang Bi

  Roles Methodology, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation School of Economics and Management, Tongji University, Shanghai, China

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