Radical and incremental entrepreneurial orientation: The effect of knowledge acquisition

Abstract

A firm's collaborative context can represent an important source of knowledge for sustaining its entrepreneurial outcomes. Drawing on entrepreneurship and resource-based view literature, we study how the acquisition of knowledge from inter-firm ties affects the relationship between entrepreneurial orientation and performance, distinguishing between two types of knowledge, market and technological, and between two types of entrepreneurial orientation, radical and incremental. The results of the study on a sample of 203 Spanish small businesses from the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) sector suggest that knowledge acquisition plays different roles, depending on the type of entrepreneurial orientation developed and also on the type of knowledge exchanged. In particular, market and technological knowledge acquisition positively moderate only the relationship between radical entrepreneurial orientation and performance, while in the case of incremental entrepreneurial orientation we find only a direct positive influence of market knowledge acquisition on performance.

HRM practices and innovation performance: a panel-data approach

“…Training to acquire technological knowledge enables both the identification and exploitation of opportunities, as it can lead to technological breakthrough (Bojica, Fuentes and Gomez-Gras, 2011). Investment in language training is another orientation of training that can provide employees with the opportunity to share knowledge with external partners and generate new understanding and ideas.…”

The complementary effect of intellectual property protection mechanisms on product innovation performance

“…To test the moderating effect of industrial complexity in technology, interaction terms between the moderating variable and the independent variables were added to Eq. (1) (Fey and Birkinshaw, 2005;Bojica et al, 2011). With six newly included interacting terms between industry technological complexity and multi-use of IPPMs, there were 14 independent variables to be tested, in total.…”

From Conception to Start-Up: Who and What Affect Female Entrepreneurship

“…The business type used by most of the women in this study is sole ownership, and most of the women are satisfied with the performance of their company in the early stages. Bojica, Mar Fuentes, and Gomez-Gras (2011) noted that not all firms need to have high levels of innovativeness, productivity, and risk taking, especially when the entrepreneur establishes the business to solve social or personal problems. The profile of a typical female entrepreneur in terms of business type, financial performance, and education clearly hinders the growth of female-own businesses (Lerner, Brush, & Hisrich, 1997).…”

“…Since the entrepreneurship theories were developed on samples of men, they may not fully portray women's entrepreneurial traits and behaviors (De Bruin, Brush, & Welter, 2006). Bojica, Mar Fuentes, and Gomez-Gras (2011) defined entrepreneurial orientation as the process, practice, and decision-making activities that direct the creation of new products, services and processes, or ventures. When running their business, entrepreneurs draw on preceding scripts or knowledge structures to make decisions (Mitchell, Smith, Morse, Seawright, & Peredo, 2002).…”