The multi-level effects of corporate entrepreneurial orientation on business unit radical innovation and financial performance

Hughes, Mathew; Chang, Yi Ying; Hodgkinson, Ian R.; Hughes, Paul; Chang, Che‐Yuan

doi:10.1016/j.lrp.2020.101989

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“…Extant studies pointed to a positive link between strategic capability and innovation (Bierly et al. , 2009; Hughes et al. , 2021).…”

Section: Literature Review and Hypothesesmentioning

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Effects of political networking capability and strategic capability on exploratory and exploitative innovation: evidence from traditional manufacturing firms in China

Wang

et al. 2022

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PurposeThis study examines the effect of political networking capability (PNC) and strategic capability on exploratory innovation/exploitative innovation through the mediation of absorptive capability (AC).Design/methodology/approachUsing empirical survey data collected from 153 traditional manufacturing firms (TMFs) in China, the authors apply partial least squares structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM) combined with mediation analyses to test hypotheses.FindingsPNC has a higher impact on exploratory innovation than exploitative innovation through AC. The authors thus provide novel empirical insights into independent variables of firms' ambidextrous innovation and their implementation mechanisms.Research limitations/implicationsThe authors highlight a unique situation of China and contribute to the literature on PNC and AC. The findings demonstrate that AC plays an important role in configuring government-obtained external resources into new products, thus influencing ambidextrous innovation strategic decisions.Practical implicationsTMFs' executives should enhance PNC to obtain more resources to conduct exploratory and exploitative innovation. Government officials and policymakers should strengthen the supervision of TMFs' innovation activities and adopt effective measures to ensure that TMFs could conduct more exploratory innovation as governments expected.Originality/valueThis study provides new insights by bridging research gaps in the literature and advances the insights of how TMFs' PNC/strategic capability directly and indirectly fosters exploratory and exploitative innovation via the mediating role of AC in China.

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“…Extant studies pointed to a positive link between strategic capability and innovation (Bierly et al. , 2009; Hughes et al. , 2021).…”

Section: Literature Review and Hypothesesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Effects of political networking capability and strategic capability on exploratory and exploitative innovation: evidence from traditional manufacturing firms in China

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et al. 2022

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“…For a firm to innovate in whatever guise, it needs the motivation and ability to do so (Chandy et al, 2003;Debruyne et al, 2010;Hughes et al, 2020). EO creates a bias for action that motivates firms to persistently seek out market-based entrepreneurial opportunities for change (Wales et al, 2015(Wales et al, , 2020.…”

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“…The second is exploring new innovations to overcome the rapid development of new technology and the short life-cycle of many technology products and services caused by intense industry competition (Tukker and Tischner, 2017). For young technology-based firms, this situation calls for innovation ambidexterity (Hughes et al, 2021; Volery et al, 2015; Voss et al, 2008; Voss and Voss, 2013), defined as the high-quality, simultaneous balance (Simsek, 2009) of exploitation and exploration activities. Ambidexterity is necessary to increase the efficiency of processes, improve operations management and create value that may eventually help these firms to attain legitimacy, accountability, reliability and short-term sustainability (exploitation); while also pursuing new opportunities and building creative services and products for medium-to-long-term viability in the face of rapid technology development driven by intense competition in technology industries (exploration).…”

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Strategic entrepreneurship behaviour and the innovation ambidexterity of young technology-based firms in incubators

Hughes

Morgan

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International Small Business Journal

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Innovation ambidexterity is especially complex for young technology-based firms because they are resource-challenged and knowledge deficient in strategic terms; but they possess considerable scope for entrepreneurship. Strategic entrepreneurship may provide a solution. Incubators emerged as a policy solution precisely due to this dilemma. We conceptualise that strategic entrepreneurship, as a synthesis of opportunity-seeking and advantage-seeking behaviours of young technology-based firms, can affect both explorative and exploitative innovation activities in these firms and expect that subsequent innovation ambidexterity affects profitability. Our empirical analyses reveal complex and competing interrelationships that both ease and exacerbate the tensions associated with innovation ambidexterity. We contribute to theory by testing strategic entrepreneurship as it applies to innovation ambidexterity and evidence behaviours that contribute to its foundations. To entrepreneurs and managers, we offer a set of prescriptions for innovation ambidexterity in young firms that accounts for the complementarities between complex and theoretically opposing constructs.

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“…RMW entrepreneurship provides an effective solution to the economic problems of RMWs and creates more job opportunities for rural surplus labor [1][2][3][4]. By promoting rural economy, RMW entrepreneurship contributes to the construction of new socialist countryside, which is advocated by the Chinese government [5][6][7].…”

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Influence of Digital Finance on Efficacy of Entrepreneurship by Returning Migrant Workers

Xiong

Fu-sheng

2021

Discrete Dynamics in Nature and Society

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Digital finance provides an ideal entrepreneurial environment for returning migrant workers (RMWs). From the perspective of entrepreneurs, many scholars have quantified the factors affecting entrepreneurship, as well as the entrepreneurial environment, theorized the importance, motives, and internal/external impactors of RMW entrepreneurship, and put forward quite a lot of countermeasures. This paper innovatively evaluates how digital finance influences the efficacy of RMW entrepreneurship. Firstly, the authors established an influencing factor analysis model and an RMW entrepreneurship model and explained principles for the structural equation modeling of the influence of digital finance on RMW entrepreneurship efficacy. Next, the traditional partial least squares (PLS) regression was optimized, the optimal initial iteration values (IIVs) were obtained, and the algorithm convergence was achieved. Finally, a multilayer structural equation model (SEM) was constructed to evaluate the influence of digital finance on RMW entrepreneurship efficacy. The proposed algorithm and model were proved valid and feasible through experiments.

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The multi-level effects of corporate entrepreneurial orientation on business unit radical innovation and financial performance

Cited by 40 publications

References 102 publications

Effects of political networking capability and strategic capability on exploratory and exploitative innovation: evidence from traditional manufacturing firms in China

Effects of political networking capability and strategic capability on exploratory and exploitative innovation: evidence from traditional manufacturing firms in China

Strategic entrepreneurship behaviour and the innovation ambidexterity of young technology-based firms in incubators

Influence of Digital Finance on Efficacy of Entrepreneurship by Returning Migrant Workers

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