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Prior Experience and Social Class as Moderators of the Planning-Performance Relationship in Chinaโs Emerging Economy
2013
yuli zhang Jun Yang Jintong Tang Kevin Au HONGZHI XUE
This study advances research on business planning by integrating and reconciling the institutional and strategic planning perspectives to explore the performance implications of both formal and informal business planning. We also examine how an entrepreneurโs prior experience and social class shape the planning-performance relationship. Using a dataset of two waves of interviews with 313 founders in China, we found that both formal and informal business planning can benefit new ventures. Interestingly, as a unique contingency factor in the Chinese context, social class moderates only the link between formal planning and performance, whereas prior work experience moderates the effects of both formal and informal planning on performance. Copyright ยฉ 2013 Strategic Management Society.