The Successful Product Pioneer: Maintaining Commitment while Adapting to Change

Simon, Mark; Elango, B.; Houghton, Susan M.; Savelli, Sonia

doi:10.1111/1540-627x.00050

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“…Also, De Jong and Marsili (2006) have examined innovations in small enterprises with fewer than 100 employees. They argue that process innovation is more widespread in small enterprises than product innovation while Simon et al (2002) found that entrepreneurial condense, adaptability, product championing, market emphasis and technological innovation contributed to performance across all new product introductions in small computer firms. Wolff and Pett (2006), suggest that internationalization and innovator's position have a positive impact on new product improvement in SMEs (Lu and Chen, 2010).…”

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Identification the main challenges of small and medium sized enterprises in exploiting of innovative opportunities (Case study: Iran SMEs)

Farsi¹,

Toghraee²

2014

J Glob Entrep Res

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The pace of innovation continues to increase not only in the developed world but also in developed markets. The key issue facing many small medium-sized enterprises is related to how they can foster effective innovation. Innovation in SMEs can be (more) efficient and effective; however, this is not the case in many SMEs. SMEs in Iran are industrial and service enterprises with less than 50 employees, because of their size and resource limitations, they are unable to develop new technologies or to make vital changes in the existing ones. The aim of this study is to identify the most important challenges of small and medium businesses a in exploitation of innovation opportunities. We used the exploratory factor analysis which demonstrated the following six challenges in the order of importance: managerial and human resource; research and development; technologies, national policy and regulatory environment and lack of market information.

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Identification the main challenges of small and medium sized enterprises in exploiting of innovative opportunities (Case study: Iran SMEs)

Farsi¹,

Toghraee²

2014

J Glob Entrep Res

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“…Thanks to their flexibility and speed in introducing innovations, small firms would gain advantages from incremental innovations in highly competitive markets . In the case of radical innovations, some authors argue that the financial success of these innovations is larger in large firms than in small ones (Paulson et al, 2007), whereas others argue that they are more easily obtained in small firms because the firm itself could be based on a radical idea (Kanter, 1985;Simon et al, 2002;Stringer, 2000).…”

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Firm size and innovation policy

Herrera

Sánchez-González

2012

International Small Business Journal: Researching Entrepreneurs

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AbstracThis study analysed the effect of R&D subsidies on strategic decisions taken by firms when faced by innovation. The traditional approach of evaluating the impact of these subsidies on the net figure of R&D expenditures does not enable us to establish how public financing influences decisions involving technological knowledge generation, nor the economic returns which could be derived from this process. The study analyses these effects taking into consideration the size of the firm, since it is a widely used variable in designing innovation policies. The study revealed that public funding, regardless of size, mainly stimulated investments aimed at gaining knowledge within the firm's technological domain, while it did not expand the technological knowledge frontier. The findings also show that subsidies only enhance the generation of incremental innovations in the case of small firms. The study concludes that the present approach to subsidies allocation is permitting the continuity of a certain strategic behaviour which specialises in leading the firm towards a quest for immediate results rather than constructing a sustainable competitive advantage.

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“…Thus, the concept of PEB contains the ideas of pioneering behaviors (Lumpkin and Dess, 1996;Mueller et al, 2012). Focusing on PEB allow us to capture a broader scope of a firm's strategic posture of positioning itself in anticipation of changes in the market by taking an active role to sharp the future state of its external environment (Kreiser et al, 2013;Lumpkin and Dess, 1996) (Nasution et al, 2011;Rhee et al, 2010;Simon et al, 2002).…”

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Proactive entrepreneurial behaviour, market orientation, and innovation outcomes

Liu

Ngugi

et al. 2017

EJM

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Purpose Drawing from resource-based theory, the authors aim to study how and under what conditions small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) capitalise on their proactive entrepreneurial behaviour (PEB) to achieve new product development (NPD) performance. Design/methodology/approach The authors’ data were drawn from a cross-sectional questionnaire survey of 401 UK-based SMEs in the manufacturing sector. Findings The authors identify an upward curvilinear relationship between PEB and NPD performance. Taking a step further, the authors propose and confirm that this curvilinear association arises from, in part, SMEs’ innovation capability, which in turn translates into NPD performance. The authors also find that this upward curvilinear relationship between PEB and innovation capability flips to a downward curvilinear relationship when firms pursue a customer and competitor orientation. Originality/value This paper looks beyond the linear relationship that exists among entrepreneurial behaviour, market orientation and innovation outcomes.

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The Successful Product Pioneer: Maintaining Commitment while Adapting to Change

Cited by 73 publications

References 31 publications

Identification the main challenges of small and medium sized enterprises in exploiting of innovative opportunities (Case study: Iran SMEs)

Identification the main challenges of small and medium sized enterprises in exploiting of innovative opportunities (Case study: Iran SMEs)

Firm size and innovation policy

Proactive entrepreneurial behaviour, market orientation, and innovation outcomes

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