Resource Configuration, Competitive Strategies, and Corporate Entrepreneurship: An Empirical Examination of Small Firms

Odd Jarl Borch, Morten Huse and Knut Senneseth

Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, 1999, vol. 24, issue 1, 49-70

Abstract: Relationships between firm resources and strategic orientations in small firms were explored in a study of 660 small firms. By using a resource-based view of the firm, we considered entrepreneurship and small business management as firm behavior—in contrast to focusing only on decisions and characteristics of the small business manager. “Managerial firms†were analyzers and used market strategies. “Technological firms†were prospectors and used product and growth strategies. “Traditional firms†avoided growth or risk-taking strategies. Firms having few resources lacked strategic orientation and were stuck in the middle.

Date: 1999
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (28)

Downloads: (external link)
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/104225879902400104 (text/html)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:sae:entthe:v:24:y:1999:i:1:p:49-70

DOI: 10.1177/104225879902400104

Access Statistics for this article

More articles in Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice
Bibliographic data for series maintained by SAGE Publications ().