Swinging a Double-Edged Sword: The Effect of Slack on Entrepreneurial Management and Growth

By S. Bradley, Johan Wiklund, Dean A. Shepherd. 2011

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Subfields: Accounting, Management of Technology and Innovation

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The Relationship between Slack Resources and the Performance of Entrepreneurial Firms: The Role of Venture Capital and Angel Investors (2013, unknown): “That this may be important to consider was hinted at by Bradley et al. (2011a) who showed that financial slack is most beneficial for firm performance in low-discretion evironments (i.e., hostile and stable industries).”
Slack resources, firm performance, and the institutional context: Evidence from privately held European firms (2017, methodology): “Recoverable slack is measured as inventories and accounts receivables divided by total assets (Bradley et al., 2011b).”
Entrepreneurial orientation and firm performance in Indian SMEs: Universal and contingency perspectives (2016, background): “Large firms possess more resources to pursue entrepreneurial activity, even in the face of high competitive intensity (Bradley et al., 2011).”
Diversity is strategy: the effect of R&D team diversity on innovative performance (2017, unknown): “Lagged-variable models have superior predictive validity, especially when measuring innovation outcomes (Bradley et al., 2010, Laursen and Salter, 2006).”
Resource constraints as triggers of radical innovation: Longitudinal evidence from the manufacturing sector (2013, background): “Entrepreneurship studies (Baker and Nelson, 2005; Bradley et al., 2010; Sarasvathy, 2001), creativity research (Moreau and Dahl, 2005; Ward, 2004), team-level studies of project outcomes (Hoegl and Gemuenden, 2001) and exploratory studies conducted in diverse industry and technology contexts all sho”
Capital Is Not Enough: Innovation in Developing Economies (2012, background): “Similar examinations in Indonesia (Bradley et al., 2011), however, find the poor starting more novel types of businesses – perhaps revealing greater capability or capacity to pursue higher variance opportunities owing to the different institutional context.”
Less is More, or Not? On the Interplay between Bundles of Slack Resources, Firm Performance and Firm Survival (2015, unknown): “Specifically, studies have shown how industry conditions (Bradley et al., 2011a; George, 2005; Lecuona and Reitzig, 2014; Verbeke and Yuan, 2013) and firm characteristics (George, 2005; Mishina et al., 2004; Vanacker et al., 2013) impact the performance effects of slack.”