Entrepreneurial Orientation (EO) has emerged as an important construct within the strategicmanagement and entrepreneurship literatures over the past two decades. Empirical studies on thedeterminants of firm’s resource acquisition have shown a fairly consistent positive relationshipbetween the EO of the firm’s senior management and firm’s resource acquisition capability. Studiesaimed at understanding this relationship have primarily focused on analyzing the separate dimensionsof EO, or on isolating contingency variables that are thought to moderate this relationship. However,there has been limited research on the mechanisms that might moderate the influence of EO on firm’sresource acquisition capability. According to the Resource-Based View (RBV) of the firm, resourceacquisition tends to be considerably more challenging for enterprises. The RBV implies that differentialendowment of organizational resources is an important determinant of strategic actions andperformance. Previous research has shown that social networks can give firms an important advantagein the acquisition of valuable resources. The resource acquisition benefits derived from social networksare particularly important for enterprises because they can help firms to overcome market informationhurdles and enable them to develop new capabilities in an efficient manner. The proposed study willseek to evaluate the roles of social capital in accounting for the influence of EO on resourceacquisition.
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