The entrepreneurial support and the performance of new venture creation: the mediation effect of the acquisition of skills and the learning of novice entrepreneurs

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Table 1. The reliability of the constructs.

Construct	(CR)	Alpha de Cronbach
Skill acquisition	0.951378	0.943123
Learning	0.957954	0.945354
Psychologica Contrat	0.848858	0.845301
Commitment	0.937544	0.927006
Performance	0.945504	0.931978
Entrepreneur/Accompanist relationship	0.973685	0.969400
Trust	0.942116	0.907687

Table 2. Convergent validity of constructs.

Construct	Items	Loadings	AVE	Composite reliability
LEARNING	app1	0.897665	0.820925	0.958136
	APP2	0.948405
	APP3	0.939386
	APP4	0.852678
	APP5	0.888733
Acquisition of entrepreneurial skills	COMPENT1	0.937331	0.940460	0.984413
	COMPENT2	0.972326
	COMPENT3	0.984303
	COMPENT4	0.984367
Acquisition of managérial skills	COMPMNG1	0.8803	0.855005	0.972491
	COMPMNG2	0.926948
	COMPMNG3	0.942744
	COMPMNG4	0.944523
	COMPMNG5	0.95253
	COMPMNG6	0.898701
Acquisition of Technical Skills	COMPTECH1	0.954881	0.863936	0.974378
	COMPTECH2	0.954633
	COMPTECH3	0.845242
	COMPTECH4	0.917709
	COMPTECH5	0.949412
	COMPTECH6	0.949994
Trust	CONF1	0.891067	0.844506	0.942116
	CONF2	0.904235
	CONF3	0.960143
Psychological contract	CONTRPSY1	0.839379	0.737502	0.848858
	CONTRPSY2	0.877751
Affective commitment	ENGA1	0.964293	0.901053	0.973234
	ENGA2	0.974851
	ENGA3	0.974851
	ENGA4	0.879591
Commitment calculated	ENGC1	0.958843	0.973701	0.993291
	ENGC2	0.995895
	ENGC3	0.995895
	ENGC4	0.995895
Normative commitment	ENGN1	0.942347	0.924292	0.979918
	ENGN2	0.987506
	ENGN3	0.926722
	ENN4	0.987506
Performance	PERF1	0.892345	0.713507	0.945503
	PERF2	0.901496
	PERF3	0.88383
	PERF4	0.8919
	PERF5	0.766365
	PERF6	0.764162
	PERF7	0.798545
Entrepreneur/Accompanist relationship	REACC1	0.802931	0.804659	0.973686
	REACC2	0.909251
	REACC3	0.913278
	REACC4	0.915418
	REACC5	0.907314
	REACC6	0.933339
	REACC7	0.927569
	REACC8	0.903458
	REACC9	0.852916

Table 3. Significance of structural relationships.

Hypotheses	Standard correlation coefficients (β)	Value (t)	Decision
H1	0.169620	2.708321	Confirmed
H2	0.121486	2.318925	Confirmed
H3:	0.527407	8.821461	Confirmed
H4:	0.376892	7.818269	Confirmed
H5:	0.319351	5.302402	Confirmed
H6	0.402033	6.887496	Confirmed
H7:	0.170505	2.636837	Confirmed
H8:	0.247451	4.120115	Confirmed
H9:	0.292456	4.974955	Confirmed

Table 4. The computational results.

		c’	a1	a2	a3	b1	b2	a1*b1	a2*b2	a1*a3*b2	(a1*b1)+(a2*b2)+(a1*a3*b2)	M1-M2
Sample 0		0.523296	0.390395	0.382062	0.2061	0.198578	0.269047	0.077523858	0.102792635	0.021647632	0.201964125	−0.025268777
Sample 1		0.61842	0.390445	0.43127	0.184335	0.186851	0.249206	0.072955039	0.107475072	0.017936023	0.198366134	−0.034520033
Sample 2		0.529781	0.328022	0.249154	0.209731	0.20717	0.217249	0.067956318	0.054128457	0.014945945	0.13703072	0.01382786
Sample 3		0.488618	0.237098	0.301612	0.352916	0.296456	0.304687	0.070289125	0.091897255	0.025494891	0.187681271	−0.021608131
Sample 4		0.550371	0.389717	0.425349	0.258237	0.348529	0.207176	0.135827676	0.088122104	0.020850058	0.244799838	0.047705572
		c’	a1	a2	a3	b1	b2	a1*b1	a2*b2	a1*a3*b2	(a1*b1)+(a2*b2)+(a1*a3*b2)	M1-M2
ORIGINAL(O)		0.402967	0.375634	0.209213	0.292456	0.168617	0.247701	0.063338278	0.07905868	0.027211544	0.169608503	−0.015720402
MEAN (M)		0.402595	0.377725	0.212472	0.288976	0.172847	0.247493	0.065288633	0.08025248	0.027014717	0.17255583	−0.014963847
Bias (0-M)		0.000372	−0.002091	−0.003259	0.00348	−0.00423	0.000208	−0.001950355	−0.0011938	0.000196827	−0.002947328	−0.000756555
SE		0.0568	0.0452	0.0563	0.056055	0.0673	0.0574	0.00304196	0.00323162	0.000145434	0.006419014	−0.00018966
PERCENTILE 5%	LOWER	0.291639	0.287042	0.098865	0.1825882	0.036709	0.135197	0.057376037	0.072724705	0.026926495	0.157027236	−0.015348668
PERCENTICLE 95%	UPPER	0.514295	0.464226	0.319561	0.4023238	0.300525	0.360205	0.06930052	0.085392655	0.027496594	0.182189769	−0.016092135

BC: P Lower (5%)+Bias 0.292011 0.284951 0.095606 0.1860682 0.032479 0.135405 0.055425682 0.071530905 0.027123322 0.154079908 − 0.016105223. BC: P Upper (95%)+bias 0.514667 0.462135 0.316302 0.4058038 0.296295 0.360413 0.067350165 0.084198855 0.027693421 0.179242441 − 0.01443085.

Table 5. Summary of the main results of the effects of mediations.

Table 6. Calculation of differential impact between M1 and M2.

Coefficients	Bootstrap 95%CI
Percentile BC
Differntiel effet
M1-M2= (a1 × b1) – (a2 × b2)	−0,015720402–0,01534	−0,01609–0,01610	−0,01443