Assessing motivational factors and effectual mechanisms’ impact on developing radical innovation in small firms
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Abstract
Previous research has discussed managers’ motivation in fostering innovation in large firms, but the motivational triggers and mechanisms to develop radical innovation in small firms have received less attention. To fill the gap, this study investigates the effects of autonomous motivations of focal entrepreneurs on radical innovations in small firms and examines the role of effectuation as a mediating mechanism in this relationship. By sampling 275 Canadian small firms and using a quantitative method, we found that autonomous motivation leads to radical innovation. Effectuation positively mediates the relationship, and the impact of effectuation on radical innovation is stronger for optimist entrepreneurs. Our post hoc analysis offers a more precise understanding of the process entrepreneurs in high-tech, versus low-tech, small firms undertake to develop radically innovative products.
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Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
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| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it