The relationships between entrepreneurial leadership and technology entrepreneurialperformance based on the evidences of Zhejiang Province

Abstract

Abstract: Entrepreneurial leadership is becoming the major constraints on the growth of technology start-ups; it also affects the process of Chinese high-tech industrialization. Based on the reviews on the evolution of leadership theory, firstly the contents and elements of leadership in technology start-ups are analyzed, secondly by means of correlation analysis, regression analysis, and path analysis methods, the relationship between the technology entrepreneurial leaderships and performance is empirically studied. The results show that entrepreneurial performance heavily relies on analyzing capability, integrating capability, and changing capability, while the role of visioning capability need to pay further attention to and develop. An optimizing orientation for better entrepreneurial performance is pointed out.

Key words: leadership, technology venture, entrepreneurial performance, empirical research

CLC Number:

F273.2

Ye Weiwei, Gao Shuyu, Wang Feirong. The relationships between entrepreneurial leadership and technology entrepreneurialperformance based on the evidences of Zhejiang Province[J]. Science Research Management, 2012, (8): 9-15.

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