Realizing stretch goals via exploratory bricolage: The case of Chinese entrepreneurial firms
Bricolage has been brought into entrepreneurship and innovation research since the early 2000s. Bricolage challenges the research-based view that the firm-specific competitive advantages are rooted in the ownership of valuable, rare, inimitable, and non-substitutable resources. The insight of explor...
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| author | Zhou, Shihao Li, Peter Ping Yang, Monsol Zhengyin |
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| description | Bricolage has been brought into entrepreneurship and innovation research since the early 2000s. Bricolage challenges the research-based view that the firm-specific competitive advantages are rooted in the ownership of valuable, rare, inimitable, and non-substitutable resources. The insight of exploratory bricolage is that innovators can conduct radical or disruptive innovations by reexamining the taken-for-granted assumptions. This chapter investigates how companies with severe resource constraints achieve stretch goals via ingenious methods. The Chinese style or pattern of innovation is argued to be unique in several aspects, and one of them is highlighted as a compositional approach. A fundamental paradox of entrepreneurship is the tension between a passionate entrepreneur’s stretch goal, i.e., goals that are seemingly impossible given his or her current resources or capabilities, and the serious lack of access to required resources or capabilities. |
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| spelling | nottingham-640802020-12-21T06:20:54Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/64080/ Realizing stretch goals via exploratory bricolage: The case of Chinese entrepreneurial firms Zhou, Shihao Li, Peter Ping Yang, Monsol Zhengyin Bricolage has been brought into entrepreneurship and innovation research since the early 2000s. Bricolage challenges the research-based view that the firm-specific competitive advantages are rooted in the ownership of valuable, rare, inimitable, and non-substitutable resources. The insight of exploratory bricolage is that innovators can conduct radical or disruptive innovations by reexamining the taken-for-granted assumptions. This chapter investigates how companies with severe resource constraints achieve stretch goals via ingenious methods. The Chinese style or pattern of innovation is argued to be unique in several aspects, and one of them is highlighted as a compositional approach. A fundamental paradox of entrepreneurship is the tension between a passionate entrepreneur’s stretch goal, i.e., goals that are seemingly impossible given his or her current resources or capabilities, and the serious lack of access to required resources or capabilities. Taylor and Francis 2019-11-27 Book Section PeerReviewed application/pdf en cc_by https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/64080/6/Realizing%20stretch%20goals%20via%20exploratory%20bricolage%20The%20case%20of%20Chinese%20entrepreneurial%20firms.pdf Zhou, Shihao, Li, Peter Ping and Yang, Monsol Zhengyin (2019) Realizing stretch goals via exploratory bricolage: The case of Chinese entrepreneurial firms. In: China’s Quest for Innovation. Taylor and Francis, London, pp. 216-234. ISBN 9781351019743 http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781351019743-11 doi:10.4324/9781351019743-11 doi:10.4324/9781351019743-11 |
| spellingShingle | Zhou, Shihao Li, Peter Ping Yang, Monsol Zhengyin Realizing stretch goals via exploratory bricolage: The case of Chinese entrepreneurial firms |
| title | Realizing stretch goals via exploratory bricolage: The case of Chinese entrepreneurial firms |
| title_full | Realizing stretch goals via exploratory bricolage: The case of Chinese entrepreneurial firms |
| title_fullStr | Realizing stretch goals via exploratory bricolage: The case of Chinese entrepreneurial firms |
| title_full_unstemmed | Realizing stretch goals via exploratory bricolage: The case of Chinese entrepreneurial firms |
| title_short | Realizing stretch goals via exploratory bricolage: The case of Chinese entrepreneurial firms |
| title_sort | realizing stretch goals via exploratory bricolage: the case of chinese entrepreneurial firms |
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