Showing papers by "Justin J. P. Jansen published in 2010"
TL;DR: In this article, the authors delineate between external and internal advice seeking and investigate their impact on exploratory innovation, and argue that top management team heterogeneity moderates the impact of advice seeking on innovation.
Abstract: Research on strategic decision making has considered advice-seeking behaviour as an important top management team attribute that influences organizational outcomes Yet, our understanding about how top management teams utilize advice to modify current strategies and pursue exploratory innovation is still unclear To uncover the importance of advice seeking, we delineate between external and internal advice seeking and investigate their impact on exploratory innovation We also argue that top management team heterogeneity moderates the impact of advice seeking on exploratory innovation Findings indicated that both external and internal advice seeking are important determinants of a firm's exploratory innovation In addition, we observed that top management team heterogeneity facilitates firms to act upon internal advice by combining different perspectives and developing new products and services Interestingly, heterogeneous top management teams appeared to be less effective to leverage external advice and pursue exploratory innovation
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