Research Notes. INFORMATION PROCESSING CAPABILITY AS A PREDICTOR OF ENTREPRENEURIAL EFFECTIVENESS.

Internationalization and firm performance of SMEs: The moderating effects of CEO attributes

“…The information processing theory argues that the capabilities of the manager to deal successfully with burgeoning information associated with organizational growth limits the development of a new firm (McGaffey & Christy, 1975). When complexity arises from the integration and coordination of dispersed activities, increasing the capacity of a firm to process information is likely a critical design strategy (Egelhoff, 1991).…”

“…In internationalizing firms, CEOs are required to deal with large amounts of diverse and conflicting information, and the ability to do so is likely both valuable and rare. McGaffey and Christy (1975) propose that managers adapt to the information demands necessitated by their firms, meaning that managers who operate businesses that are undergoing rapid growth must increase their personal capability to process the data generated because of the increasing complexity in their business.…”

Relationship between entrepreneur’s traits and cloud computing adoption among malay-owned SMEs in Malaysia

“…These characteristics may have significant implications for their cloud computing adoption and usage determinations. The characteristics that have been suggested by past literature are, need for achievement (McClelland 1965;Decarlo and Lyons 1979), locus of control (Sexton and Smilor 1986;Mueller and Thomas 2000), risk taking (Palmer 1971;Bowen and Hisrich 1988), values (Sexton and Smilor 1986;), ability to identify business opportunities (Caired 1988), autonomy (DeCarlo andLyons 1979;Sexton and Bowman 1983), creativity/innovativeness (Sexton and Bowman 1983), self-confidence (Gnyawali and Fogel 1994;Byrgrave 1997), capability to process information (McGaffey and Christy 1975), low interpersonal effect, social adroitness, low harm avoidance and low succorance (Sexton and Bowman 1984).…”

Task role motivation and attributional style as predictors of entrepreneurial performance: female sample findings

“…Clearly, tht: effectivcncss of any effort directed at reducing PEU will depend on both the qiiantity and quality of infbrmation one possesses about the REE. It is assumccl that entreprencurs arc parricularly efl'ertive at reducing PEU and, therefore, at assessing risk, bccausc: (a) they possess supcrior information-gathering and -processing abilities (Gilacl 1982, Kirzncr 1973, blcclelland 1987, McGaffey and Christy 1975; (b) tht:y spend more tirnc developing contacts and exhibit a greater rate of participation in formal and informal networks (Aldrich and Zimmer 1986, Aldrich et al 1987, Bird 1989); (c) they spend more time than managers in scanning the REE for information, and have a deeper concern about the market positioning and growth potential of their firm (Kuehn and Johnson 1986); and (d) by being able to identify opportunities and to combine inputs in effective ncw ways (Bellu 1988, Mitton 1989, Schumpeter 1934) they possess a critical characteristic of new venture formation. A key point here is that, in view of the lirnitcd information processing capabilities of most humans (Simon 1957), entreprencurs possess a clecisi\~e advantage in their efforts at understanding their REE and at reducing the uncertainty emanating from it.…”