Theories of innovation have drawn on the dominant form that the process took in the 1960s and 1970s: one characterized by high-tech endeavors, usually based on formal research and scientific investigations, involving patenting and corporations’ research laboratories. Those specific assumptions...

The fast-changing scenario emerged with the COVID-19 pandemic pushed firms to operate in an uncharted territory. Firms had to adapt quickly to survive in an unpredictable market. Based on a quantitative survey, the study aims at assessing how small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) responded...

Literature in strategy and entrepreneurship resorted to the concept of imprinting to explain the resilience of firms' traits. Nonetheless, it assumed such a process is at work rather than indulging in its explanation. This article advances a conceptual framework based on an original definition...