Entrepreneur’s creativity and firm-level innovation performance: bricolage as a mediator

Product innovation and performance in SME’s: the role of the creative process and risk taking

“…Creativity is essential for successful product innovation (Guo et al, 2017). A challenging task in the innovation process is to effectively transform novel and useful ideas that arise from business creativity into new products or services (An et al, 2018). The improvement of creativity in the workplace results in more innovation (Ouakouak & Ouedraogo, 2017).…”

“…Despite the growing body of research on creativity and innovation, there are several gaps that the literature has not explored sufficiently. Within the framework of innovation, only a few studies have focussed on the creative process (An et al, 2018;Mahmood et al, 2019), hence the need to investigate the role of the creative process to develop a more comprehensive understanding (Ou et al, 2018;Tan et al, 2017a). Studies of creativity and innovation specifically with in SMEs have received little attention (Abdul-Halim et al, 2019).…”

How to face the unexpected: Identification and leadership in managing bricolage

“…Baker and Nelson define the ability to depart from routines in order to enact emergent behavior as "bricolage", which can be defined as "making do by applying combinations of the resources at hand to new problems and opportunities" (2005, p. 331). Extant research has established the relevance of bricolage to both innovative behavior and to creativity and innovation at company level (An, Zhang, You, & Guo, 2018;Shen, 2018;Wu, Liu, & Zhang, 2017).…”

“…The current study aims to fill a gap in extant research, first by illustrating how identification is associated with an important behavior, bricolage, which has not yet been analyzed from this perspective, and which previous research has demonstrated to be a fundamental antecedent of innovation (e.g. An et al, 2018). In addition, with respect to existing qualitative and experimental design-based studies, the current research seeks to provide a wider test of the relationship between identification and bricolage through a quantitative survey-based analysis, carried out both in a creativity-based setting and in more traditional ones, in order to amplify the findings of previous important studies (e.g.…”

An Examination of the Relationship between Entrepreneurial Creativity and Firm Performance

“…It is also presumed that direct relationship between creativity and firm performance might not be strong since the implementation of creative ideas is not easy, and creation without implementation might not be useful. Most of the available studies on creativity in management have tended to focus solely on the (product design and features) with no consideration of the role of creativity in associated with firm performance (Im, Montoya, & Workman, 2013)., other studies, van Esch, Wei, & Chiang, (2018) studied the mediating role of employees' competencies and the moderating role of climate for creativity, Wu (2016) examined entrepreneurial leadership, organizational creativity, and firm performance, An, Zhang, You, and Guo, (2018) studied Entrepreneur's creativity and firm-level innovation performance: bricolage as a mediator. Chen, Chang, & Lin, (2018) explored creative entrepreneurs' happiness: cognitive style, guanxi and creativity and Shahzad, Bajwa, Siddiqi, Ahmid, & Sultani, (2016) integrated knowledge management strategies and processes to enhance organizational creativity and performance.…”