Determinants of the Disposition to Imitate or to Innovate

摘要：

There are three main aims of this paper. Firstly, we delineate the concepts of innovation and imitation. Secondly, using the structural equation modeling method, we empirically test the impact of two dimensions of market and entrepreneurial orientations, on the decision to innovate or to imitate. Thirdly, we relate this decision to the companys performance. Based on a survey of 304 companies, our empirical results support the view that proactivity is the most important determinant in deciding whether to innovate or imitate, and we find that the companys performance is not determined by the decision to innovate or imitate, but rather, by the companys proactivity and focus on customers.

关键词： Innovation Imitation Proactivity Risk-taking Customer focus Competitor focus Competitiveness

作者: Ana P(E)REZ-LU(N)O Ramón VALLE-CABRERA Johan WIKLUND

作者单位: Business Administration Department University Pablo de Olavide Seville, Spain Entrepreneurship Department J(o)nk(o)ping Business School J(o)nk(o)ping, Sweden

会议类型: 国际会议

会议名称: The Fifth InternationalSymposium on Management of Technology(ISMOT07)(第五届技术与创新管理国际研讨会)

会议地点: 杭州

会议语种:英文

页码: 145-149

在线出版日期: 2007-06-01（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）