Entrepreneurial orientation-as-experimentation and firm performance: The enabling role of absorptive capacity

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Patel, Pankaj C.; Kohtamaki, Marko; Parida, Vinit; Wincent, Joakim
• 署名单位: Ball State University; University of Vaasa; Lulea University of Technology; Hanken School of Economics
• 刊物名称: STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT JOURNAL
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0143-2095
• DOI: 10.1002/smj.2310
• 发表日期: 2015
• 页码: 1739-1749
• 关键词: ENTREPRENEURIAL ORIENTATION; experimentation; absorptive capacity; variation; GROWTH

摘要

According to the perspective of entrepreneurial orientation-as-experimentation, entrepreneurial orientation (EO) increases variability in innovation outcomes. Although increased variability in the innovation portfolio could increase performance, it could also lead to a decline in performance. We propose that absorptive capacity plays a role in both increasing and managing variations in innovation outcomes. Potential absorptive capacity enhances the effects of EO on variability in innovation outcomes, whereas realized absorptive capacity helps transform and exploit variability in innovation outcomes to enhance firm performance. Copyright (c) 2014 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.