Entrepreneurial orientation‐as‐experimentation and firm performance: The enabling role of absorptive capacity
研究创业导向如何通过吸收能力影响企业绩效，发现潜在吸收能力增强创新结果变异性，而实现吸收能力则利用这种变异性提升绩效。
According to the perspective of entrepreneurial orientation‐as‐experimentation, entrepreneurial orientation ( EO ) increases variability in innovation outcomes. Although increased variability in the innovation portfolio could increase performance, it could also lead to a decline in performance. We propose that absorptive capacity plays a role in both increasing and managing variations in innovation outcomes. Potential absorptive capacity enhances the effects of EO on variability in innovation outcomes, whereas realized absorptive capacity helps transform and exploit variability in innovation outcomes to enhance firm performance . Copyright © 2014 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.