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Entrepreneurial alertness and product innovativeness: Firm-level and environmental contingencies
Adomako, Samuel
Adomako, Samuel
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2021
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Electronic version of an article published as International Journal of Innovation Management, Volume 25, Issue 2, 2021. [https://doi.org/10.1142/S1363919621500237] © World Scientific Publishing Company 2020.
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Although scholars have recognized that alertness is critical in identifying and exploring opportunities, empirical studies exploring when alertness drives innovation are lacking. Drawing insights from the cognitive and contingency perspectives, the current study addresses this gap in by arguing that variations in firm product innovativeness is a function of degree of entrepreneurial alertness and levels of internal firm capabilities and environmental conditions. Data were collected from from 385 small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Ghana. This study used the hierarchical regression estimation technique to analyses the data and found that a significant positive relationship between entrepreneurial alertness and firm product innovativeness. Moreover, the findings showed that entrepreneurial alertness is beneficial for firms to innovate when pressures from customers and competitors are intense. Finally, the results revealed that stronger market information sharing and technological opportunism also amplify the alertness-innovativeness relationship.
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Adomako S (2021) Entrepreneurial alertness and product innovativeness: Firm-level and environmental contingencies. International Journal of Innovation Management. 25(2): 2150023.
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