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TY - JOUR
T1 - The multi-level effects of corporate entrepreneurial orientation on business unit radical innovation and financial performance
AU - Hughes, M.
AU - Chang, Y.-Y.
AU - Hodgkinson, I.
AU - Hughes, P.
AU - Chang, C.-Y.
PY - 2021/2/1
Y1 - 2021/2/1
N2 - Corporate enterprises must support its business units to adapt to changes that are increasingly dramatic and complex. In response, corporate entities must organize to embed a corporate entrepreneurial orientation (EO) that pervades the actions of its business units to create the radical innovations needed to thrive in these circumstances. By developing a global willingness–local ability framework, we test a multi-level model of corporate EO by conceptualizing its effects on business unit radical innovation and business unit financial performance, moderated by business unit R&D resourcing and business unit absorptive capacity. With data from 2820 business units of 1290 Taiwanese corporations from two separate surveys, we find support for our theoretical expectations and contribute much-needed knowledge of the multi-level effects of EO and the conditions to turn EO into actual innovation activity and profit from it.
AB - Corporate enterprises must support its business units to adapt to changes that are increasingly dramatic and complex. In response, corporate entities must organize to embed a corporate entrepreneurial orientation (EO) that pervades the actions of its business units to create the radical innovations needed to thrive in these circumstances. By developing a global willingness–local ability framework, we test a multi-level model of corporate EO by conceptualizing its effects on business unit radical innovation and business unit financial performance, moderated by business unit R&D resourcing and business unit absorptive capacity. With data from 2820 business units of 1290 Taiwanese corporations from two separate surveys, we find support for our theoretical expectations and contribute much-needed knowledge of the multi-level effects of EO and the conditions to turn EO into actual innovation activity and profit from it.
KW - Absorptive capacity
KW - Business unit
KW - Corporation
KW - Entrepreneurial orientation
KW - Multi-level
KW - R&D
KW - Radical innovation
KW - Resources
KW - Willingness and ability
U2 - 10.1016/j.lrp.2020.101989
DO - 10.1016/j.lrp.2020.101989
M3 - Journal article
VL - 54
JO - Long Range Planning
JF - Long Range Planning
SN - 0024-6301
IS - 1
M1 - 101989
ER -