Market orientation’s boundary-spanning role to support innovation in SMEs

Simone Didonet; Geoff Simmons; Guillermo Díaz-Villavicencio; Mark Palmer

doi:10.1111/jsbm.12288

Market orientation’s boundary-spanning role to support innovation in SMEs

Simone Didonet
, Geoff Simmons
, Guillermo Díaz-Villavicencio
, Mark Palmer

Queen's Business School (QBS)

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Abstract

This study aims to examine the relationship between market orientation, sources of innovation and intra-firm mechanisms to support innovation. A research conducted among 325 small and medium enterprises (SMEs) reveals that market orientation significantly affects sources of innovation, providing a market-centric focus for SMEs. It also reveals that sources of innovation positively affect intra-firm mechanisms for innovation. Finally, it reveals that market orientation has an indirect and positive effect on intrafirm mechanisms for innovation via the extent to which the studied SMEs use different sources of innovation. To better understand these relationships we consider market orientation's boundary-spanning role for SMEs.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	216-233
Number of pages	18
Journal	Journal of Small Business Management
Volume	54
Issue number	S1
Early online date	27 Oct 2016
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1111/jsbm.12288
Publication status	Published - Oct 2016

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© 2016 International Council for Small Business This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Didonet, S. R., Simmons, G., Díaz-Villavicencio, G. and Palmer, M. (2016), Market Orientation's Boundary-Spanning Role to Support Innovation in SMEs. Journal of Small Business Management, 54: 216–233, which has been published in final form at http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/wol1/doi/10.1111/jsbm.12288/abstract. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Self-Archiving.
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