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This paper analyses the mediating effect of a company's social responsibility on the relationship between entrepreneurial orientation and performance in agricultural cooperatives. This objective constitutes a major contribution in itself. The second contribution made by this paper is the use of three sources of data: a questionnaire on entrepreneurial orientation mailed to agricultural cooperatives in Spain between January and April 2015 (112 valid questionnaires), an analysis of sustainability reports (68 reports), and financial data from the SABI database. The SmartPLS 3.2.3 structural equations program was used to test the data. The key finding of this research is that CSR has a mediating effect on the relationship between entrepreneurial orientation and performance. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study examines the entrepreneurial orientation (EO) of agri-food cooperatives that engage in export activities. Using the PLS (partial least square) technique to test the hypotheses made it possible to conduct an analysis based on the principal components and on variance. The model was run in two steps. The first step confirmed that entrepreneurial orientation (measured by innovativeness, proactiveness and risk taking) was positively related to the export activities of the agri-food cooperatives (entrepreneurial orientation explained 23% of export activity). The second step, applying contingent theory, found that in larger sized cooperatives that operated in more dynamic environments the effect of entrepreneurial orientation on export activity was greater, explaining 29.7% of the variance. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]