Antecedents of Innovativeness Entrepreneurial Team Characteristics and Networking

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2014-01-01

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Dilek, Tüten
Aşcıgil, Semra Feriha

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This paper highlights the impact of entrepreneurial team demographics and networking on organizational innovativeness in a sample of SMEs located in northwest Turkey. The findings revealed that entrepreneurial team characteristics (age heterogeneity and average education) played a significant role in organizational innovativeness of SMEs after controlling team size. Networking with public organizations played an important role in contributing to innovativeness capacity whereas networking with competitors had a marginal role. The findings suggest substitutability between entrepreneurial team characteristics (average education) and networking which can offer more flexibility in the policies of public organizations and educational institutions.

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Networks, Entrepreneurial Teams, Innovativeness, Small and Medium-sized Enterprises

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/48641

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Journal of Innovation Management

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https://doi.org/10.24840/2183-0606_002.001_0007

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T. Dilek and S. F. Aşcıgil, “Antecedents of Innovativeness Entrepreneurial Team Characteristics and Networking,” Journal of Innovation Management, pp. 83–103, 2014, Accessed: 00, 2020. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/48641.