Effects of improvisational behavior on entrepreneurial activities and firm performance: the moderating roles of firm size and business experience

M Ratanavanich… - … of Entrepreneurship in …, 2024 - emerald.com
Purpose This study aims to analyze the effect of entrepreneurs' improvisational behavior on
business risk-taking and opportunity recognition, as well as to analyze its subsequent impact …

[HTML][HTML] Internationalising high–tech SMEs: Advancing a new perspective of open innovation

A Simba, M Tajeddin, M Farashahi, LP Dana… - … Forecasting and Social …, 2024 - Elsevier
Choosing a foreign market entry strategy is known to be essential for firm internationalisation
yet there is very little focus on the role, purpose, and value of open innovation for …

The effectiveness of improvisational behavior on sales performance during the COVID-19 pandemic: the moderating effect of functional customer orientation

P Charoensukmongkol, A Pandey - Journal of Asia Business Studies, 2023 - emerald.com
Purpose This research aims to apply the contingency approach to explore the effectiveness
of the improvisational behavior of salespeople on their sales performance by considering …

[HTML][HTML] How much internationalization is innovation-worthy for SMEs? Roles of the degree of internationalization and organizational unlearning on the joint …

M Dayan, CA Di Benedetto, B Dayan… - Journal of Innovation & …, 2024 - Elsevier
The existing literature on SME internationalization has inadequately integrated joint
innovation capabilities, organizational unlearning, and the internationalization process …

Global mindset and adaptive marketing capabilities in the internationalization of mature Chinese SMEs: international opportunity perspective

H Ali, M Li, X Qiu, Q Farooq - Sustainability, 2023 - mdpi.com
Despite the centrality of international opportunity concept in international entrepreneurship
field, SMEs' internationalization literature has focused mainly on SMEs' international …

Improvisation as responsible innovation in organizations

M Gojny-Zbierowska, P Zbierowski - Sustainability, 2021 - mdpi.com
Improvisation might be seen as a method of responsible innovation in organizations, due to
its potential to be more responsive and enable bottom-up initiative. Considering that …

Entrepreneurial alertness, international performance, and the role of effectuation in SME internationalization

W Bai, B Francioni, M Johanson, L Oliveira… - Journal of Small …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
By shedding light on the often-overlooked early stages of opportunity development initiated
by entrepreneurial alertness and its performance outcomes in an international setting, this …

Opportunity abandonment: Why are entrepreneurs vulnerable to type I and II errors?

TA Arshi, V Rao, AS Butt - Heliyon, 2024 - cell.com
Opportunity actualization is a critical competency attributed to entrepreneurs, which has
received widespread attention in the entrepreneurship literature. However, the knowledge of …

The journey of business opportunity evaluation: when and why does opportunity novelty promote vs. inhibit opportunity adoption?

L Lin, Y Lin, S Lin - Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 - frontiersin.org
As a typical characteristic of entrepreneurial opportunities, novelty is essential for firms to
establish and maintain a sustainable competitive advantage under the current complex and …

Business unpredictability, improvisation and business network commitment in small and medium-sized enterprise market entry

M Hilmersson, M Johanson… - International Small …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
Market entry performance is critical during internationalisation; prevailing views suggest that
firms need to carefully plan their entry before putting the plan into action. This article focuses …