Organizing Strategic Entrepreneurship to Enable Product Innovation in New and Young Technology-Based Firms

Hughes, M.; Hughes, P.; Morgan, R.E.; Hodgkinson, I.R.

Organizing Strategic Entrepreneurship to Enable Product Innovation in New and Young Technology-Based Firms

Hughes, M.; Hughes, P.; Morgan, R.E.; Hodgkinson, I.R.

Authors

M. Hughes

P. Hughes

R.E. Morgan

I.R. Hodgkinson

Abstract

We examine how strategic entrepreneurship affects explorative and exploitative product innovation and how their synthesis as innovation ambidexterity affects firm performance. We find that opportunityseeking through entrepreneurial orientation positively affects both explorative and exploitative innovation, but advantage-seeking through sourcing and managing relational resources show differential effects on innovation activity. Those that achieve innovation ambidexterity experience superior firm performance. Our work contributes a first test of strategic entrepreneurship as it applies to product innovation management in new and young technology-based firms, and offers a model reconciling how opposing constructs contained in strategic entrepreneurship and innovation theory can cohabitate in firms.

Citation

Hughes, M., Hughes, P., Morgan, R., & Hodgkinson, I. (2015, October). Organizing Strategic Entrepreneurship to Enable Product Innovation in New and Young Technology-Based Firms. Paper presented at Strategic Management Society 35th annual international conference. Strategy expanding : making sense of shifting field and firm boundaries., Denver, Colorado, USA

Presentation Conference Type	Conference Paper (unpublished)
Conference Name	Strategic Management Society 35th annual international conference. Strategy expanding : making sense of shifting field and firm boundaries.
Conference Location	Denver, Colorado, USA
Start Date	Oct 3, 2015
End Date	Oct 6, 2015
Acceptance Date	Apr 16, 2015
Publication Date	Oct 6, 2015
Deposit Date	Apr 16, 2015
Publicly Available Date	Apr 23, 2015
Public URL	https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1684314
Publisher URL	http://denver.strategicmanagement.net/