Antecedents and consequences of resourcefulness.
· The context and conditions when resourcefulness is manifest, applied, and effective.
Contributions to this special issue may address (but are not limited to) the following research questions:
The concept of resourcefulness
- What does it mean to be resourceful? What factors contribute to resourcefulness for individuals, teams, organizations, and societies?
- What processes shape different dimensions of resourcefulness-namely, bringing, assembling, or deploying resources? What are the correlates of resourcefulness?
- How do cultural (national, societal and / or organizational) factors shape resourcefulness?
- What is the imprinting effect of resourcefulness that influences decision-making? How does an imprinted culture of resourcefulness lead actors to focus more on resource acquisition in future decisions once they have adequate access to resources?
- How do industries or societies become resourceful and how does this affect "grand challenges" or improved societal outcomes?
- How does materiality shape resourcefulness? What are the cognitive processes such as sensemaking and sensegiving that shape resourcefulness? How do actors communicate and foster shared meanings around novel uses of resources?
- How does resourcefulness (at various levels) grow, decline, persist, or otherwise evolve over time?
- How do teams act resourcefully?
- What is the downside of resourcefulness? When does resourcefulness produce unintended or undesirable outcomes?
Antecedents of resourcefulness
- What (e.g., skills, competencies, cognitive factors, experiences, etc.) makes individuals more prone to and more likely to be effective at resourcefulness? How can organizations, institutions, or cultures cultivate resourcefulness in individuals and teams?
- Why are individuals resourceful? What are the underexplored cognitive processes that could result in seeing objects as resources or identifying multiple uses for single resources?
- When and how are individuals resourceful and with what consequences?
- How do teams of individuals or organizations perform better at converting objects to resources and what factors shape these processes?
- When and why are teams resourceful?
- How do organizations cultivate resourcefulness when they are not experiencing resource constraints?
- Why are some industries or institutions more resourceful than others? What leads organizations or industries to choose resourcefulness over other resourcing options?
Consequences of resourcefulness
Performance
- How does resourcefulness influence individual job satisfaction, creativity, innovation, and/or opportunity recognition?
- What types of problems is resourcefulness helpful (unhelpful) in resolving and why?
- Does resourcefulness enable the creation of higher potential entrepreneurial opportunities? Does it enable or limit the scope of opportunities?
- How does resourcefulness shape team creativity, efficiency, and innovativeness? What are the opportunities and limitations of a resourceful team?
- How does resourcefulness influence an organization's ability to pivot? What are the implications of these pivots, such as changing too soon, adapting to the environment, etc. What are some of the boundary conditions of resourcefulness? When is resourcefulness "too much of a good thing" in terms of financial performance, exploration activities, and so forth?
- Does resourcefulness enable or limit venture growth? When and why does resourcefulness help/hurt growth?
- As new ventures evolve, do they require different types of cognitive resourcefulness in order to achieve revised goals? Could cognitive resourcefulness approaches such as creativity and action-orientation facilitate rapid growth?
- How do organizations sustain resourcefulness and what impact does that have on innovation?
Context and conditions when resourcefulness is manifest, applied, and effective
- How do, and what factors contribute to, teams persisting with their resourcefulness over time?
- How does choice factor into resourcefulness (e.g., choosing to be resourceful despite a munificent environment as opposed to necessity-based resourcefulness)?
- What are the tradeoffs associated with resourcefulness and resource acquisition?
- Do certain resourcefulness abilities deteriorate over time (or engage strategic pivots) and what effect does this have?
- How do resourcefulness manifest differently across heterogenous cultural and institutional environments? How do cultural and institutional contexts shape the development trajectory and sustainability of certain resourcefulness approaches?
Submission Process and Deadlines
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