Introduction
Innovativeness has been recognized as a critical determinant of business performance (Calantone et al., 2002; Cooper & Kleinschmidt, 2000; Hughes & Morgan, 2007; Lee & Tsai, 2005). As a prerequisite for success and survival, firm innovativeness could prompt enterprises to provide valuable, rare, inimitable, and distinctive products with added and different sources of value relative to competitors (Barney, 1991; C. Kim & Park, 2010; Schilke, 2014), help businesses enter the new market, expand their market share, and improve their competitive advantage and performance (Gunday et al., 2011; Rhee et al., 2010). Damanpour (1991) maintained that firm innovativeness has a...