Efficaciously smuggling ideas : untangling the relationship between entrepreneurial self-efficacy, creative bootlegging and embedded lead users

Ghasemzadeh, Khatereh (author), Bunjak, Aldijana (author), Bortoluzzi, Guido (author), Černe, Matej (author)

The phenomenon of Embedded Lead Userness has gained considerable attention in the past years. The present study examines the relationship between entrepreneurial self-efficacy and embedded lead userness when mediated by creative bootlegging. After analysing the data collected from 554 employees in 41 Italian and Croatian firms, our study unveils that entrepreneurial self-efficacy exerts a positive impact on embedded lead userness when mediated by creative bootlegging. Consistent with research on identity work, these results suggest that employees who show self-motivation and conviction in entrepreneurial activities tend to commit to unofficial innovation projects, which in turn, makes them act as lead users of the products and services. The study’s contributions and practical implications are also discussed.

• Language: English
• Keywords: enterprises, innovations, knowledge transfer
• Work type: Article
• Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
• Organization: EF - School of Economics and Business
• Publication version: Author Accepted Manuscript
• Year: 2020
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-119653
• UDC: 005.3
• ISSN on article: 1363-9196
• DOI: 10.1142/S1363919621500328
• COBISS.SI-ID: 26196739
• Publication date in RUL: 10.09.2020

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: International journal of innovation management
• Shortened title: Int. j. innov. manag.
• Publisher: Imperial College Press
• ISSN: 1363-9196
• COBISS.SI-ID: 1656341

Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian
• Keywords: podjetje, inovacije, prenos znanja

Projects

• Funder: ARRS - Slovenian Research Agency
• Project number: J5-9329
• Name: Poslovna analitika in poslovni modeli v oskrbovalnih verigah

• Funder: ARRS - Slovenian Research Agency
• Project number: P5-0410
• Name: Digitalizacija kot gonilo trajnostnega razvoja posameznika, organizacij in družbe