A Multiple Mediation Analysis of the Growth in New Ventures

A Multiple Mediation Analysis of the Growth in New Ventures Vol. IV, No. III (Summer 2019) 265 Based on resource management perspective (Sirmon et al. 2008), the focus of the current research is on the mediating mechanism of three resources i.e. resource acquiring (RA), resource bundling (RB) and resource leveraging (RL) on the relationship between EBT and NVG in the context of Pakistan. Although, as mentioned earlier, previous researchers except from Wang et al. (2019) focuses on one dimension at a time like acquiring (Leung et al. 2006) and opportunity capture (Li et al. 2014). Thus, simultaneous investigation of multiple mediations may enhance the relationship and give a more accurate and comprehensive picture. To answer the question of how EBT promote NVG through different resources i.e. RA, RB, and RL, we hope that the current study can contribute to the existing literature in the following aspects. First, we focus on how NVG occurs, rather than simply investigating what promote NVG. Second, the research provides deeper understanding as we study multiple resource management processes simultaneously. Finally, few researchers empirically tested resource management perspective in new ventures context (Wang et al. 2019; Yi et al. 2016; Sirmon et al. 2008).