Boundary Spanning in the Entrepreneurial Firm: Effects on Innovation and Firm Performance

Innovations have been found to frequently originate from outside of organizations (Quinn, 1985; Utterback, 1971). While both small and large firms may face obstacles to achieving innovation, pursuing innovations outside of the firm’s boundaries has been suggested to enable small firms to mitigate liabilities of smallness (Ketchen Jr, Ireland, and Snow, 2007). But is this assertion true in all cases? What about the entrepreneurial firm which...