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Introduction to the Special Issue: Financial Resource Constraints and Innovation
Author(s) -
Gibbert Michael,
Hoegl Martin,
Valikangas Liisa
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
journal of product innovation management
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.646
H-Index - 144
eISSN - 1540-5885
pISSN - 0737-6782
DOI - 10.1111/jpim.12089
Subject(s) - argument (complex analysis) , mainstream , enabling , resource (disambiguation) , bottom of the pyramid , pyramid (geometry) , business , industrial organization , knowledge management , computer science , marketing , political science , psychology , computer network , biochemistry , chemistry , physics , optics , law , psychotherapist
This is an introduction to the JPIM special issue on the link between resource constraints and innovation. Before introducing the papers, we briefly review two perspectives on the role of resources in innovation management. The first, mainstream argument views adequate or even slack (rather than constrained) resources as an enabler of innovation. The second argument, currently frequented in the bottom‐of‐the‐pyramid literature but originating much earlier, suggests that resource constraints provide a potentially highly valuable opportunity for innovation.