Innovation in conservative and entrepreneurial firms: Two models of strategic momentum
研究提出并检验了两种产品创新模型：保守模型认为创新是被动应对挑战，创业模型则认为创新是主动追求。通过对52家加拿大企业的分析，发现不同企业分别支持不同模型。
Abstract Two very different models of product innovation are postulated and tested. The conservative model assumes that innovation is performed reluctantly, mainly in response to serious challenges. It therefore predicts that innovation will correlate positively with environmental, information processing, structural and decision making variables that represent, or help to recognize and cope with these challenges. In contrast, the entrepreneurial model supposes that innovation is always aggressively pursued and will be very high unless decision makers are warned to slow down. Thus negative correlations are predicted between innovation and the variables that can provide such warning. Correlational and curvilinear regression analyses revealed that each model was supported by conservative and entrepreneurial sub‐samples, respectively, in a diverse sample of 52 Canadian firms.