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Preliminary Material -- INTRODUCTION -- THE FOUR-FOLD ART OF AVOIDING QUESTIONS /Paul Weiss -- THE PROBLEM OF THE ANALOGY OF BEING /George Klubertanz -- THE SELF AS SOURCE OF MEANING IN METAPHYSICS /W. Norris Clarke -- REALITY AND METAPHYSICS /Joseph Owens -- MERLEAU-PONTY AND THE RENEWAL OF ONTOLOGY /Marjorie Grene -- METAPHYSICS, CRITIQUE, AND UTOPIA /Richard J. Bernstein -- THE QUESTION OF BEING /Robert Sokolowski -- IS METAPHYSICS POSSIBLE? /Stanley Rosen -- THE SCIENCE WE ARE SEEKING /Ralph McInerny -- THE PRACTICALITY OF METAPHYSICS /Frederick Ferré -- TWO FACES OF SCIENCE /Ernan McMullin -- ARE CATEGORIES INVENTED OR DISCOVERED? A RESPONSE TO FOUCAULT /Jorge J. E. Gracia -- TEXTUALITY, REALITY, AND THE LIMITS OF KNOWLEDGE /Nicholas Rescher -- METAPHYSICS AND LANGUAGE /John Herman Randall -- BEING, IMMEDIACY, AND ARTICULATION /John E. Smith -- STRIVING TO SPEAK IN A HUMAN VOICE: A PEIRCEAN CONTRIBUTION TO METAPHYSICAL DISCOURSE /Vincent Colapietro -- THE METAPHYSICS OF THE GOOD /Ivor Leclerc -- PERISHABLE GOODS /George Allan -- THE GENEROSITY OF THE GOOD /Joseph Grange -- THE LEGACY AND FUTURE /Robert C. Neville -- BIBLIOGRAPHY OF PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESSES OF THE METAPHYSICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA 1952–2010 /Brian G. Henning and David Kovacs -- INDEX /Brian G. Henning and David Kovacs -- VIBS /Brian G. Henning and David Kovacs.

Entrepreneurial orientation provoked the interest of numerous scholars as well as political and administrative decision-makers. Both start-ups and already established corporate entities are increasingly persecuting new opportunities, products, and business models in order to establish superiority above their competitive environment. The tendencies evince an optimist impact of entrepreneurial orientation on business performance, namely on financial performance. Beyond the aforementioned relationship, there are impulses such as environmental and organizational factors, which are affecting the businesses. The results of this study provide evidence of the effect of entrepreneurial orientation on business performance in a post-socialist context. We test the impact of three moderators on this bivariate relationship. In contrast to the substantial body of literature for Western markets, we contribute to minimizing the considerable gap of research in post-socialist economies. Entrepreneurial orientation as an organizational behavior may affect the financial performance of businesses differently in distinct market contexts. Both, internal and external factors are crucial to identifying, analyze and monitor, to achieve superior performance and to overcome competitors. This study builds upon a stratified sampling survey of Hungarian company owners and managers from the Amadeus database. The study uses a deductive approach. For the analysis, we rely on structural equation modeling using the PLS algorithm. Our study contributes to the existing literature by means of confirming the entrepreneurial orientation to firm performance relationship for Hungary. In this context, we test the moderating effects of environmental dynamism, environmental hostility as environmental factors and firm age as an organizational factor. Environmental hostility is closely related to an unfavorable environment, deriving from rapid and radical changes in the industry, which are typical for post-soviet economies. In such dynamic environment, destructive innovations of the industrial actors appear more often as the economy switches to an open competition, capitalist market. The results confirm that the internal and external factors have no significant influence on the entrepreneurial orientation to financial performance direct relationship.