{"title":"The impact of growth hacking on firm performance under environmental turbulence: A moderated-mediation analysis","authors":"Yatish Joshi , Rahul Bodhi , Sheshadri Chatterjee , Marcello Mariani","doi":"10.1016/j.jbusres.2025.115271","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The purpose of the study is to examine the influence of growth hacking on marketing capability, disruptive innovation, and firms’ performance. Structural equation modeling was used to analyze the data. The results show that growth hacking positively influences marketing capabilities, disruptive innovation, and firms’ performance. Further, marketing capabilities and disruptive innovation were observed to mediate the association between growth hacking and firm performance, whereas technological turbulence moderates the association between disruptive innovation and firm performance. The findings suggest that firms can use growth hacking to foster marketing capabilities and disruptive innovation, which may affect firm performance. Besides, firms need to constantly monitor the technological turbulence levels.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":15123,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Business Research","volume":"191 ","pages":"Article 115271"},"PeriodicalIF":10.5000,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Journal of Business Research","FirstCategoryId":"91","ListUrlMain":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0148296325000943","RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"BUSINESS","Score":null,"Total":0}
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The purpose of the study is to examine the influence of growth hacking on marketing capability, disruptive innovation, and firms’ performance. Structural equation modeling was used to analyze the data. The results show that growth hacking positively influences marketing capabilities, disruptive innovation, and firms’ performance. Further, marketing capabilities and disruptive innovation were observed to mediate the association between growth hacking and firm performance, whereas technological turbulence moderates the association between disruptive innovation and firm performance. The findings suggest that firms can use growth hacking to foster marketing capabilities and disruptive innovation, which may affect firm performance. Besides, firms need to constantly monitor the technological turbulence levels.
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