How Chinese entrepreneurial firms mobilize resources for innovation under institutional constraints
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Emerging countries are becoming increasingly innovative and in particular China draws the attention. Private-sector driven innovation is changing China’s industrial landscape. These developments are surprising from an institutional or resource perspective on innovation. In this paper we combine the resource and institutional perspective and unravel the processes by which entrepreneurial firms in China mobilize resources for innovation while acknowledging institutions as a source of uncertainty. Our findings of a sample of 45 Chinese entrepreneurial software firms show 26 distinct processes by which they mobilize resources. Based on qualitative comparative analysis we have distilled five important drivers of resource mobilization for innovation: outside-in technology development, external capital mobilization, external
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