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| Research on the Relationships among Resource Shortage, BricolageTactics and Product Innovation of SMEs |
| LI Xiaoxiang1,HUO Guoqing2 |
1. School of Management, Anhui University
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Abstract Current studies on relationships between resource and innovation mainly focus on the resource sufficient condition. Conversely, seldom of research about innovation focuses on the effects of resource shortage which is also the matter worthy of attention in this age of intense competition. Especially, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are often short of various resources and have to take bricolage tactics, but are still the main sources of innovation. For this, some scholars have argued that resource shortage and the bricologe tactic may promote innovation, but they can’t provide satisfactory explanations. We analyze the main effects of the resource shortage and three kinds of bricolage on product innovation and testify them by taking the technology-based SMEs as the sample, then find that: resource shortage has an inverted-U-shape relationship with SMEs’ product innovation; parallel bricolage hampers product innovation in SMEs while the selective one stimulates; serial bricolage negatively moderates the relationship between resource shortage and product innovation in SMEs while the selective one positively moderates. This paper extends current studies by exploring the effects and moderating mechanisms therein of resource shortage and bricolage tactics on innovation in different perspectives and conditions, and expects the research outputs to bring more understandings and improvements in SMEs’ innovative practice.
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Received: 10 October 2014
Published: 15 March 2015
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Corresponding Authors:
LI Xiaoxiang
E-mail: 07011@ahu.edu.cn
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