Title: The impact of entrepreneurial competencies on firms' performance

Authors: Farah Alloush; Shafig Al-Haddad

Addresses: King Talal School of Business Technology, Princess Sumaya University for Technology, Amman, Jordan ' King Talal School of Business Technology, Princess Sumaya University for Technology, Amman, Jordan

Abstract: The main objective of this study is to examine the impact of entrepreneurial competencies (opportunity, organising, strategic, relationship, commitment and learning) on firm performance, in addition, to examining the effect of firm capabilities as a moderating variable on the impact of entrepreneurial competencies on firm performance. The population of the study consists of Jordanian entrepreneurs who are the owners of entrepreneurial firms. Convenience sampling technique was used to collect the responses of the participants which were composed of 91 respondents. Further, simple, multiple, and hierarchical regression were applied to analyse the collected data. The findings of this study revealed that opportunity competency, strategic competency and commitment competency have an impact on the performance of the firm. Additionally, firm capabilities were found to have a moderating effect on the impact of entrepreneurial competencies on firm performance.

Keywords: entrepreneurial competencies; firm capabilities; firm performance; Jordan; entrepreneurship.

DOI: 10.1504/IJBPM.2022.126215

International Journal of Business Performance Management, 2022 Vol.23 No.4, pp.399 - 421

Accepted: 25 Aug 2021
Published online: 17 Oct 2022 *

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