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An alternative view of small firm adaptation
journal contribution
posted on 2023-05-16, 15:12 authored by Jones, CIncreasingly, small firms with a history tied to a specific geographic location are having their survival threatened by new and innovative Web-based entrants. This paper considers the plight of such firms and proposes an alternative means to reflect on how they may or may not learn about such threats or opportunities. Adopting an evolutionary perspective, the construct absorptive capacity is used to highlight the deficiencies of current market orientation theory to explain the process of firm learning. The conceptual model of evolutionary potential provides a framework through which both the firm and its owners’/owner’s abilities to learn can be taken into account.
History
Publication title
Journal of Small Business and Enterprise DevelopmentVolume
11Pagination
362-370ISSN
1462-6004Department/School
TSBEPublisher
Emerald Group Publishing LimitedPlace of publication
United KingdomRights statement
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