Ambidexterity, a driver to enhance small and medium enterprises' innovation autonomy

IF 1.1 Q4 BUSINESS
Cristina Iturrioz-Landart, Henar Alcalde-Heras, Cristina Aragón-Amonarriz
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Abstract

SMEs suffer from structural limitations that constrain their ability to develop innovation capacities and these constraints may affect ambidextrous strategy implementations, particularly during economic recessions. To mitigate these weaknesses, SMEs often rely on inter-firm cooperation relationships to provide resources and external sources of knowledge relevant in both exploration and exploitation. The network and organisational performance effects of ambidexterity strategy have been widely studied, but scarce research has focused on the contribution that ambidexterity linked to inter-firm cooperation strategies have on SMEs innovation capabilities over time. This longitudinal study, based on a panel dataset about innovation behaviour on 2,150 SMEs located in Spain's Basque Country during recession periods (2009-2013), verifies how ambidexterity, together with external collaboration strategy, reinforces SMEs innovation autonomy.
双元性:提升中小企业创新自主性的驱动力
中小企业受到结构限制,这些限制限制了它们发展创新能力的能力,这些限制可能会影响双方面战略的实施,特别是在经济衰退期间。为了缓解这些弱点,中小企业往往依靠公司间合作关系来提供与勘探和开发相关的资源和外部知识来源。双元战略的网络和组织绩效效应已经得到了广泛的研究,但很少有研究关注与企业间合作战略相关的双元战略对中小企业创新能力的贡献。这项纵向研究基于一个关于衰退时期(2009-2013年)西班牙巴斯克地区2150家中小企业创新行为的面板数据集,验证了二元性与外部合作战略如何加强中小企业的创新自主性。
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期刊介绍: Environmental dynamism is a widely-explored construct in organisation theory/strategic management literature. It has growing importance according to the degree of instability/turbulence of such key operating concerns as market/industry conditions as well as more general technological, economic, social, political forces. An organisation''s ability to adapt to changing environmental circumstances is key to survival. IJBE examines how firms behave under different types of environment and the external influences on businesses. It addresses a wide variety of business decisions/processes/activities within the business environment.
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