Financial constraints in innovation projects: When is less more?

Returns to alliance portfolio diversity: The relative effects of partner diversity on firm's innovative performance and productivity

“…This, at first seemingly unexpected result is in line with some recent findings in the APD literature (Oerlemans et al, 2013) and resource constraint literature (e.g., Hoegl, Gibbert, & Mazursky, 2008;Mosakowski, 2002) that suggests that resource constraints can unleash creativity and innovative behavior.…”

Framing resource-constrained innovation at the ‘bottom of the pyramid’: Insights from an ethnographic case study in rural Bangladesh

“…Baker & Nelson, 2005;Garud & Karnøe, 2003). Other studies identify within the bounded creativity of teams the inception of RCI (Hoegl, Gibbert, & Mazursky, 2008) and stress the mutual interaction between science-based Research & Development and experience-based learning (Hendry & Harborne, 2011). Others have focused on popular ingenuity and 'frugal innovativeness' (Gupta et al, 2003;Radjou et al, 2012).…”

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“…For instance, interaction is necessary to provide access to other members' cognitive resources, but it is challenging for group members and depletes their own cognitive resources for idea generation (Diehl & Stroebe, 1987); diversity is expected to provide more varied input, but diverse groups sometimes underperform homogeneous groups on creative tasks (Harvey, 2013); and a supportive environment is expected to enhance creativity, but constrained task environments sometimes also promote creativity (Hoegl, Gibbert & Mazursky, 2008). Thus, we speculate that friendship is an underexplored element that might impact on business processes and outcomes, such as innovation and creativity.…”