Innovation tool adoption and adaptation in small technology-based firms

Innovation tool adoption and adaptation in small technology-based firms
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小型技术企业的创新工具采用和适应

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2013
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P. Knott
P. Knott
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G. D. Waal;P. Knott

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在本文中,我们提出了一个定性的,以访谈为基础的研究过程中,小型技术型企业通过时,他们采用的工具,并调整它们的使用。通过提取59个实例的工具内化在五家公司,我们得出了一个编码方案结合现有的和新兴的形式的工具bricolage。这四种类型是重建,重新解释,进化和定制。我们列举了每种类型的例子。我们的研究结果加强了任何给定的工具,一旦在实践中制定的可变性,相反,在一些创新工具的文献,工具的应用是一个简单的机械过程隐含的期望。在我们研究的小公司中,我们发现重新解释是最普遍的工具适应形式。这种类型的工具使用往往是肤浅的,无法从更仔细定制或重建的工具中获得好处。我们还报告了从业者获得新工具意识的不同方式。
In this paper, we present a qualitative, interview-based study of the processes small technology-based firms go through when they adopt tools and adapt them for use. By extracting 59 instances of tool internalisation across five firms, we derived a coding scheme combining existing and emergent forms of tool bricolage. The four types are reconstruction, reinterpretation, evolution, and customisation. We articulate examples of each type. Our findings reinforce the variability of any given tool once enacted in practice, contrary to implied expectations in some innovation tools literature that tool application is a straightforward mechanical process. In the small firms in our study, we found reinterpretation is the most prevalent form of tool adaptation. This type of tool use is prone to being superficial and failing to gain the benefits available from a more carefully customised or reconstructed tool. We also report on the different ways in which practitioners gain awareness of new tools.