Abstract:
Qualitative information of the annual reports provide unique and useful
information about the 1rganizat. Chairman’s letter, which is one of voluntary and
qualitative sections of the annual reports,has beentaken for the study. Short et al.
wordlist was used to quantify entrepreneurial orientation of the Chairman’s
letter. Based on the one year market performance of Nifty 500 companies, the top
and least 50 companies were selected as the sample. The study focuses to see the
difference of entrepreneurial orientation between the top and least 50 companies
and to see whether an association between entrepreneurial orientation and firm
performance exists. Data for the study were collected from the Bloomberg
database. The CATA software CAT scanner, and statistical software SPSS were
used for analysis. Analysis showed that only the innovativeness score of top
performing companies was significantly different from least performing
companies
Description:
Fourteenth Biennial Conference on Entrepreneurship/ Edited by Rajeev Sharma, Sunil Shukla, Amit Kumar Dwivedi & Ganapathi Batthini
