Abstract According to the imprinting theory, based on the data of 301 technology-based SMEs, this study investigates the relationship between initial resource endowment and SMEs’ available resources as well as the mediating effects of opportunity-seek logic. This study shows that：①initial resource endowment influences SMEs’ available resources. Specifically, scarcity of initial resource expands resource efficiency boundary, while abundance has an inverse-U shaped relationship with resource competence boundary. Initial resource structure consisting largely of absorbed resource expands resource power boundary. ②Opportunity-seeking logic plays mediating roles between initial resource endowments and available resources. Abundant resource has inverse-U shaped relationship with resource competence boundary by industry-spanning search, while resource structure consisting largely of absorbed resource promotes the expansion of resource power boundary by decentralized decision.
LI Xiaoxiang,ZHANG Shuhan. The Effect of Initial Resource Endowment on SMEs’ Available Resources from the Perspective of Imprinting[J]. Chinese Journal of Management, 2022, 19(8): 1134-.
