Entrepreneurial team heterogeneity and female entrepreneurial performance: A multiple mediation model

Presently, there is no clarity on the complex relationship between entrepreneurial team heterogeneity and female entrepreneurial performance. Based on social cognition theory, this study reveals a multiple mediating model of female entrepreneur (FE) experiential learning and female entrepreneur (FE) opportunity recognition and development on the relationship between entrepreneurial team heterogeneity and female entrepreneurial performance. By analyzing the sample data of 558 Chinese female entrepreneurs through structural equation modeling, the results show that entrepreneurial team heterogeneity has a significant positive impact on female entrepreneurial performance; FE opportunity recognition and development play a partial mediating role in the relationship between entrepreneurial team heterogeneity and female entrepreneurial performance; FE experiential learning does not play a mediating role between entrepreneurial team heterogeneity and female entrepreneurial performance; FE experiential learning and FE opportunity recognition and development play a serial mediating role between entrepreneurial team heterogeneity and female entrepreneurial performance. The study provides theoretical and practical reference for the improvement of the entrepreneurial performance of female entrepreneurs' teams.