TY - CHAP
T1 - Realizing Stretch Goals via Exploratory Bricolage
T2 - The Case of Chinese Entrepreneurial Firms
AU - Zhou, Shihao
AU - Li, Peter Ping
AU - Yang, Monsol Zhengyin
PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
UR - https://primo.kb.dk/permalink/f/10k3fbj/CBS01000984048
U2 - 10.4324/9781351019743-11
DO - 10.4324/9781351019743-11
M3 - Book chapter
SN - 9781138497146
T3 - Routledge Contemporary China Series
SP - 216
EP - 234
BT - China's Quest for Innovation
A2 - Dai, Shuanping
A2 - Taube, Markus
PB - Routledge
CY - Abingdon
ER -