Martie-Louise Verreynne

• PhD
• Professor (Full) at The University of Queensland

Strategy-making assists small firms in managing change and uncertainty by developing suitable strategic options. We move beyond the conventional formal–informal dichotomy to show how three informal approaches—internal participation, external participation, and centralized strategy-making—help both entrepreneurial firms and conservative firms to nav...

The objective of this paper is to understand the contribution of networks to innovation and firm performance in small and medium enterprises (SMEs). Based on longitudinal data from 1,435 SMEs, we show that strong, heterogeneous ties improve innovation in SMEs. However, the connections between network ties and firm performance are more complex than...

Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) are crucial in driving innovation, creating employment, and fostering economic development. To achieve these goals, they collaborate with various organizations, including universities, to extend their internal resources and capabilities, thereby scaling their efforts. However, inconsistent results and vague theor...

Entrepreneurial ecosystems (EEs) that support entrepreneurship are seen as tightly spatially bound, top-down systems. They are exogenous to entrepreneurs but endogenous to the jurisdic-tion's policymakers and other powerful stakeholders. Taking a knowledge spillover theory approach, this paper offers a new perspective on these systems that better f...

Purpose The paper aims to develop a strategic conceptualization and measurement scale of organizational resilience to support researchers examining how small firms prepare and respond deliberately to general disruptions in the operating environment over more extended time frames. Design/methodology/approach The paper uses a four-step process to de...

We compare how non-financial government support, versus knowledge gained through exporting, supports innovation in Vietnamese small and medium enterprises (SMEs). Analysis of panel data of 1,018 SMEs shows that government support for staff training and technological development quality increases the likelihood of product and process innovation. Res...

This study takes a processual view of resilience to investigate how tourism organisations utilise dynamic capabilities to develop resilience in a disaster context. A longitudinal qualitative research design was used to gain insights into the process. The study uses on-site observation, secondary documents, and in-depth interviews with representativ...

The active contribution of academic institutions to the technological, social and economic development of societies is of increasing importance. To better understand this contribution, we present a systematic review, together with bibliometric and network analyses of the academic entrepreneurship literature. This provides a map of the main topics a...

Large-scale projects often involve hundreds or even thousands of businesses. There are opportunities for these firms to produce innovations to solve problems and improve the project’s outcomes, but the time-bounded nature of the project and technical interdependencies also constrains innovation. Using quantitative analysis of data from firms in lar...

This study develops a typology of dynamic capabilities to advance knowledge on how tourism organizations can manage disruptive external changes. It uses the context of a natural disaster. The article goes beyond a simple classification of organizational activities in responding to crises/disasters to create a typology of 12 dynamic capabilities. Th...

It is assumed in the international entrepreneurship and international business literatures that firms entering overseas markets possess attributes that are unique and valuable, providing them with an advantage that offsets their liability of foreignness. There is a further assumption that the market knowledge acquired through exporting is independe...

The open innovation literature provides compelling evidence of value being created from inbound knowledge flows. Missing from this conversation is an empirical understanding of why firms reveal intellectual property without immediate financial return. Revealing seems contrary to capturing rents from innovation. Using survey data and secondary data...

Dynamic capabilities enable tourism organisations to manage crises and disasters, yet many do not possess these competencies. This paper investigates the factors that enable or impede the development of dynamic capabilities in tourism organisations that help them to survive and thrive in crises or disaster environments. These enablers and barriers...

Purpose The COVID-19 pandemic has created a crisis for healthcare systems worldwide. There have been significant challenges to managing public and private health care and related services systems’ capacity to cope with testing, treatment and containment of the virus. Drawing on the foundational research by Frow et al. (2019), the paper explores how...

The empirical literature on the sources of production efficiency mostly focuses on technical and scale efficiency, and the relative importance of mix efficiency is often overlooked. This paper estimates input-oriented technical and mix efficiency using a farm-level survey dataset of 730 smallholder horticulture farms in Pakistan. We estimate a Baye...

Open innovation (OI) is an important phenomenon in a global marketplace where knowledge is distributed and individual firms no longer have a monopoly on the best talent. As firms increasingly search for innovative external ideas and solutions, an obvious problem is how to source high-quality contributions externally. A more specific problem is how...

It is well known that innovation benefits firms, and that openness may enhance these benefits. Yet, few studies consider how firms’ institutional context and different economic systems moderate openness and innovation outcomes in new ventures, which arguably are most exposed to institutional constraints. Comparing data from a liberal (Australia) an...

Open innovation (OI) refers to the inbound and outbound flows of knowledge beyond the boundary of the organization, which can be in the form of pecuniary or non-pecuniary exchanges. Investigation into pecuniary and inbound innovation types has advanced rapidly, but non-pecuniary outbound OI (free revealing) has received less attention. Presenting a...

Open innovation (OI) refers to the inbound and outbound flows of knowledge beyond the boundary of the organization, which can be in the form of pecuniary or non-pecuniary exchanges. Investigation into pecuniary and inbound innovation types has advanced rapidly, but non-pecuniary outbound OI (free revealing) has received less attention. Presenting a...

This paper investigates the behavioral additionality effects of a unique high‐ and new‐ technology enterprise (HNTE) program in China. The program provides a reduced corporate income tax to certificated HNTEs. By distinguishing research expenses from development costs, we examine if the tax incentive program affects firms’ composition of R&D invest...

This article identifies why some poor rural women do or do not obtain micro-loans and considers the economic effectiveness of these loans. It draws on primary data collected through interviews and women focus group discussions from four villages of Sindh province in Pakistan. A qualitative approach is adopted to analyze the factors affecting women’...

This article identifies why some poor rural women do or do not obtain micro-loans and considers the economic effectiveness of these loans. It draws on primary data collected through interviews and women focus group discussions from four villages of Sindh province in Pakistan. A qualitative approach is adopted to analyze the factors affecting women'...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to conceptualise and validate a scale to capture entrepreneurship behaviour at the human resource management (HRM) functional level. Design/methodology/approach Drawing from the HRM and entrepreneurship literature, this paper first conceptualises and operationalises entrepreneurial behaviour at the human resour...

Objectives. The aim of this systematic literature review (SLR) was to investigate the effect of companion animals (whether simply as pets or used in more formal intervention approaches) on the physical and mental health of older adults (aged 60+). Methods. The reviewers identified key search terms and conducted a systematic search of the PsycINFO a...

The importance of resilience for tourism organizations facing crises and disasters is indisputable. Yet little is known about how these organizations become resilient. This paper proposes that dynamic capabilities provide a mechanism that enables tourism organizations to respond to disruptive environmental changes through a process of routine trans...

In increasingly uncertain and competitive markets, small tourism firms are often pressured to innovate across a diverse range of innovation types. Innovation diversity creates synergies in that capabilities developed for one type can enhance the outcomes of other types of innovation. This paper defines and examines innovation diversity, and its rel...

Retail firms are increasingly using social media for purposes other than traditional marketing, such as innovation. Yet, while the innovation literature has established the benefits of involving customers in the development of products/services through open innovation, the role of social media in innovation is not well understood. Accordingly, we i...

Shareholders’ rights to appoint directors in widely-held companies are effectively held by the incumbent board as ‘agents’. This article advocates for the adoption of an integrated instrument designed to enhance accountability for the composition of the board, which sits at the apex of the board’s autonomous corporate control. Formulated as a focus...

The current regulatory framework surrounding assistance animals is inadequate in both American and Australian law. The uncertainty it creates raises practical barriers to access for disabled people who rely on service animals. This article compares the respective shortcomings of each systems’ controls for service animals and recommends a direct sys...

This study presents a systematic review of the impact of disability-assistance animals in the workplace. While the importance of establishing workplace diversity initiatives is widely established, there is little thought as to how organizations can support it beyond legal compliance with anti-discrimination laws. This paper adopts an innovative app...

Innovation drives economic growth. At the level of countries, the national innovation system has a strong influence on the success of innovative activities within the region. However, it is often assumed that these systems evolve through policy innovation, in a top-down manner. This paper presents an exploratory case study of the introduction of a...

The capability of firms to leverage external network relationships strongly supports the development of successful new products and services. Network partners help to shape innovations and pave the road to commercialisation. Yet, despite this considerable knowledge about the importance of networks for innovation, we do not understand how firms embe...

In this article, we deploy Cohen, March, and Olsen's (1972) garbage can model of decision making to produce a different lens on the performance of megaprojects. Using a sample of firms involved in hydrocarbon megaprojects, we show that the problems given the most public attention by the industry are different from those responsible for budget overr...

Over the next decades, advances in technology and new business practices will challenge a traditionally conservative legal profession. With a focus on the Australian legal profession, this article explores the nature of the challenges and, in particular, considers whether the challenges pose a threat of disruptive innovation. The article aims to ad...

This paper considers the boundaries of new public management (NPM) principles in the context of the mandate for a commercial approach within a New Zealand state-owned enterprise (SOE). Investigating a commercial approach to NPM through an institutional theory lens, the case study highlights complexities and potential conflict between structured NPM...

This paper investigates two aspects of bank financing using a sample of 1,973 Australian small to medium sized enterprises (SMEs). We compare the variables that explain why Australian small to medium sized enterprises seek bank finance with those that underpin bank credit rationing of loan applications. Our analysis highlights that little overlap e...

Finding the means to address growing environmental and social problems requires new collaborative approaches to planning that consider global resource constraints and an uncertain future. This paper presents a review of 622 articles on organizational planning approaches for achieving a sustainable future, and organizes this literature into a taxono...

Purpose Unequal workplace gender outcomes continue to motivate research. Using the prism of work-life-(im)balance, the purpose of this paper is to show how identity salience and motivation contribute to a subject position that for many reproduces socially gendered practices of workplaces. Design/methodology/approach After initial inductive compute...

This report outlines the factors that influence performance of small businesses in Queensland towns affected by Coal Seam Gas (CSG) development across three time periods: investment (2008–2013), transition to operations (2013–2015) and estimated future performance (to 2017). The report focused on the concept of organisational resilience, which we d...

ABSTRACT The growing literature on innovation pays limited attention to the role of human resource management (HRM) innovation in creating competitive advantage. This paper adopts a knowledge-based approach to examine how firms design and implement HRM innovations (HRMIs) and how such innovations support competitive advantage. Drawing from multiple...

The growing literature on innovation pays limited attention to the role of human resource management (HRM) innovation in creating competitive advantage. This paper adopts a knowledge-based approach to examine how firms design and implement HRM innovations (HRMIs) and how such innovations support competitive advantage. Drawing from multiple streams...

Those researching organizational capabilities have largely accepted that the most fundamental operational capabilities form a hierarchy ranging from the lower-order dynamic functional to higher-order dynamic learning capabilities. Measurability has advantaged the first two types, resulting in numerous operationalized measurement scales. Yet at the...

Main Findings • Farmers have experienced increased costs of inputs. These costs vary significantly across different activities as well as different agro-climatic zones. The increased cost of inputs appears to have affected farm level profitability. A district level comparison shows that farmers in Kasur District experienced the highest cost per acr...

The capital construction phase of the CSG–LNG projects in Queensland has required significant investment in employment, and provided opportunities for local contractors with spillover effects for the regional economy. As these projects transition into the operational phase they will sustain a different supply chain profile, which has implications f...

We investigate the relationships between innovation in the business model, business model design themes, and firm performance. The ‘business model view’ and the related ‘business model innovation’ as emerging strategy, and innovation research domains, remain both ill-defined and marred by vague construct boundaries and limited empirical support. We...

The open innovation literature reveals a disproportionate focus on inbound knowledge flows, despite the fact that the open innovation concept includes outbound and inbound forms of innovation. We also note the calls for more study of open innovation in networked environments. To address these imbalances we test how two outbound types of open innova...

The impact of environmental regulation on innovation is of central interest to many industries and policy makers alike. While traditional research adopts a top-down view of regulation and attempts to measure the innovation response, the more bottom-up view of contemporary theory argues that firms produce innovations that exceed compliance levels as...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to develop contemporary entrepreneurial configurations of small firms and relates them to performance. Adding a process dimension, the authors extend the more commonly used resource and growth taxonomies in this field of research. Design/methodology/approach – A review of current literature on small firm conf...

Informal enterprises are widely viewed as a mechanism to engage unemployed people in the economy and thereby alleviate poverty in developing economies. However, over-representation in an economy may lead to both economic growth and broader employment opportunities being sacrificed. This paper presents a process model to investigate three potential...

Organizational resilience is an increasingly important characteristic for organizations. The notion of organizational resilience has only recently taken root in the human resource literature. However, diverse perspectives and definitions have impeded the utility of this construct for organizational research and practice. In this study, we conducted...

This chapter reports research findings into the productivity challenge facing the Australian oil and gas industry. This industry has been experiencing cost overruns indicating a productivity decline that puts future projects and investment at risk. Using world-class survey methodologies developed by the Centre for Business Research at Cambridge Uni...

In this article we develop a hierarchical framework of ordinary capabilities, dynamic functional capabilities, and dynamic learning capabilities. These three levels of capabilities differ across four interdependent internal dimensions of predominant resources, routine patterning, learning, and strategic intent. The levels are also influenced by ext...

The purpose of this paper is to explore an ongoing application of the entrepreneurial method applied to the problem of food security in the developing world as an alternative logic. Food production and marketing channels in the developing world are often based on scientific logic starting with an ideal outcome and then strategically designing a pla...

This study focuses on the managerial issue of should social enterprises (SEs) become more marketing oriented. It adapts the Kohli et al. (J Mark Res 30:467-477, 1993) MARKOR marketing orientation scale to measure the adoption of marketing by SEs. The items capture Vincentian-based values to leverage business in service to the poor as a measure of a...

This exploratory study draws upon the perspectives of employees and managers from 50 small Australian firms to build a more complete and nuanced view of the interaction of human resources and capabilities with firm performance. Specifically, it uses a mixed methods multilevel design that elicits employee perspectives of employment systems and chief...

Recent work by Sarasvathy and Venkataraman (Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, 113–135, 2011) suggest that entrepreneurship may offer an alternative to the scientific method in solving some of the increasingly complex problems facing modern society. This paper adopts an entrepreneurial method framework to explore how social enterprises (SEs) can...

This paper investigates two aspects of the demand side determinants of bank lending for a sample of Australian SMEs. Using data from the Growing Australian Business Survey we document the results on why a sample of Australian SMEs seek bank finance and bank credit rationing of loan applications. SMEs with growth intentions, business plans, larger f...

The paper investigates the role of government support initiatives in one developing economy: Vietnam by examining about 1.800 manufacturing SMEs. The results show that different forms of government support have varying effects on product and process innovation. Financial support, such as soft loans has a negative impact on product innovation, which...

Dynamic capabilities 'create, extend or modify' the firm's current operating capabilities in order to enable strategic renewal. Although widely recognized, this conceptualization of the relationship between dynamic and operating capabilities lacks empirical grounding. Using process research into the difficult radical new product development path of...

Dynamic capabilities ‘create, extend or modify’ the firm's current operating capabilities in order to enable strategic renewal. Although widely recognized, this conceptualization of the relationship between dynamic and operating capabilities lacks empirical grounding. Using process research into the difficult radical new product development path of...

Purpose This article aims to consider success in terms of the financial returns and risks of new public management (NPM) in state‐owned enterprises (SOEs). Design/methodology/approach Financial returns of New Zealand SOEs were examined through a review of their annual reports over a five‐year period. Dimensions of risk were examined through interv...

Purpose – This paper aims to examine the integration of entrepreneurship and strategy to develop a conceptual framework of strategic entrepreneurship. The framework is developed through an analysis of theory and refined through an examination of practice. Design/methodology/approach – This framework is considered in the context of potentially entr...

Mature small firms often struggle to grow profits as more competitors enter the market. These firms are also less likely to exhibit those entrepreneurial behaviours which underpin sustained performance. The use of differentiation strategies is one such approach which mature firms may be able to sustain – providing them with means to deal with uncer...

The objective of this paper is to deepen our understanding of the role of absorptive capacity in enabling interorganizational new product development (INPD). We contend that despite what is known about the benefits of absorptive capacity to innovating firms, this research is dominated by firm-level analyses using cross-sectional data. The accumulat...

In 2005 Quotable Value was New Zealand's largest valuation and property information organisation with approximately 230 staff and 22 offices throughout the country. While Government reforms within New Zealand had forced this former Government department to operate in a competitive market, a booming property industry and a number of innovative proje...

The objective of this paper is to deepen our understanding of the role of absorptive capacity in enabling interorganizational new product development (INPD). We contend that despite what is known about the benefits of absorptive capacity to innovating firms, this research is dominated by firm-level analyses using cross-sectional data. The accumulat...

Developing an entrepreneurial orientation has been proven beneficial to firms, but for small firms this may be too resource consuming. This paper aims to offer a unique perspective on how small firms can improve their entrepreneurial orientation while making optimal use of limited resources. It describes the results of an empirical study of strateg...

Intrapreneurship as a concept has received a fair amount of attention over the past 20 years (Antoncic & Hisrich, 2003; Pinchot, 1985; Robinson, 2001). Less consideration has been paid to how firms use intrapreneurial strategy-making processes to improve performance. This paper investigates the existence of intrapreneurial strategy-making processes...

This paper investigates the drivers and facilitators of innovative and entrepreneurial activity in three New Zealand state-owned enterprises (SOEs). Illustrative cases reveal that those aspects typically associated with entrepreneurship, such as innovation, risk acceptance, pro-activeness and growth, are supported by a number of other elements with...

New ventures play an important role in economic growth. The resource logic underlying how these firms develop in the early stages, however, has not received adequate attention in the literature. This paper examines the launch trajectories of embryonic ventures. We propose a configurational model of these trajectories based on the resources and stag...

In 1987 Landcorp was corporatised as a state-owned enterprise under New Zealand’s public sector reforms, and began operating as a collection of farms located throughout the country. Twenty years after incorporation, Landcorp had established a record of careful land management, productivity growth, and solid financial returns. By 2007 it had transfo...

The relationship between aspects of environmental uncertainty, such as dynamism and hostility, and entrepreneurial orientation (EO) has been well established in the literature. Drawing predominantly on perceptions of uncertainty, there is general consensus that dynamism and hostility nurtures EO. This study uses data from small service firms in New...