Open Journal of Social Sciences, 2014, 2, 81-86
Published Online September 2014 in SciRes. http://www.scirp.org/journal/jss
http://dx.doi.org/10.4236/jss.2014.29014
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Integration Strategy of Entrepreneurial
Enterprises Resources
Zhirun Xiao
School of Economics & Management, Shanghai Second Polytechnic University, Shanghai, China
Received May 2014
Abstract
If venture enterprises rise rapidly, rea li z ing the goal of in crem ent a nd ap p r e ciati o n , then they
must possess strategic concept of resources integration. Meanwhile, venture enterprises have to
master and utilize the integrated strategy. This article tries to present the necessity of proceeding
of the resources integration among those venture enterprises, and the content and characteristics
of entrepreneurial resources integration, followed by a deeper analysis of integration strategy in
different types and related problems. At last, the author analyzes the misunderstanding that can
be easily made during the process of implementation the integration strategy, and put forward
some countermeasures.
Keywords
Venture Enterprise, Resources Integration, Strategy
1. Introduction
Resource is a general term of what an enterprise owns and commands in physical assets and non physical assets.
It is the set of the elements and interrelation between production and management. It is not only a set of inde-
pendent resources, but is a set formed among the different resources within enterprises.
More or less, a venture enterprise has some certain resources. In general, however, most of the resources are
scarce. Although the appreciation can be realized bit by bit, it is a way too slow for such enterprises to develop.
To get the appreciation of enterprise resources quickly, entrepreneurs need to have a good command of a stra-
tegic concept about resources integration, as well as the method to integrate the resources. Integration is a
process that various factors of production and venture (mutually related among the system) realize the new per-
meation, correlation and coordination through multiple of expanding resources channels.
Integration is the demand of enterprise competition, and the premise to venture and develop the strength to
meet the competition, the confidence to face the challenge, and a complementation of resources. It is the empha-
sis for an enterprise to master and command the integrated strategy for the rapid development [1].
2. The Necessity of Integration Enterprises’ Resource
For any enterprise, their resources are scarce. Then new resources should be increased and supplemented, be-

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cause the scarce resources often lead to an unachieved career.
An enterprise starting a business is not only to obtain incremental source of wealth, but also to turn the know-
ledge resources into wealth. Under the condition of market economy, any resource is valuable. To obtain these
resources, we cannot only rely on the work with honesty, but on the ability to value and exploit the resources.
Today, with the economic globalization and information sharing, an important measure to enhance the a bility of
value development is the integration. Integration makes the scattered resources into integrated resource. It makes
the local advantage into the overall advantages. It makes the incomplete information into complete information.
It makes visible business opportunities into real business opportunities. It makes the fancy wealth into the gotten
wealth. Therefore, this ability to acquire additional resources has become an ability for a person or an enterprise
to develop—an ability to get rich.
2.1. Entrepreneurial Enterprises Need to Obtain the Rapid Development of Appreciation
through Integration
It has been found that the rapid rise of enterprises is the effect of integration of various elements. En t repre neur-
ship needs a variety of appr eciation. These elements need to be obtained through multifarious channels to “inte-
grate”. Therefore, earning various needed scarce resources and appreciations make it an effective way to expand
the enterprise quickly through many means of integration. These appreciations will let the enterprise take chance
to develop and enhance the competitiveness as soon as possible.
2.2 Integration will Promote Combat Capability of Enterprises’ Capital Operation
The main tool for capital expansion among en terpris es is integration. Capital operation is the tool of industry in-
tegration. It is the capital market that makes the enterprises to gain funds of industry integration rapidly. Then,
their vision of integration industrial can be realized; and using the capital operation to take methods, like pro-
curements and reorganizations, thus, achieving the right to control and operate the industry integration quickly.
Under a relatively perfect economic environment, enterprise merger will be a long-term phenomenon. For
example, different resources among many industries integrate and merger every year in USA and the property
has been in a state of fluxion. It is this property fluxion, seeking and obtaining a value-added capital that bring
rich profit for the enterprises and create values and rewards for shareholders.
2.3 Integration Has Become Strategic Ability of Multinational Corporations to Obtain
Maximum Profit
The concept of globalization demands enterprises to evaluate the merits and demerits of the market competition
strategy through a global perspective and the development of market. Under the new situation of global eco-
nomic integration, the Multinational Corporations’ production and management have undergone significant,
strategic adjustment.
This adjustment has two obvious characters.
One is the integration of global production. It refers to that the Multinational Corporations will no longer rely
on capital, scale, nor geographical advantages to organize production, but trying to integrating factories estab-
lished around the world ted into a coherent whole. They will not go back to concentration the manufacture, or
sticking to inherent pattern of decentralized organization. But they will make full use of special effects of net-
work in the system on the integration of production to establish a dynamic, open and agile network system to
realize the integration of productive resources.
Another character is the integration of global marketing resources. It is the superiority of Multinational Cor-
porations utilizin g the network that turns the past raw materials and product sales through the regional procure-
ment into the global procurement of raw materials and product sales. Thus, they can perform raw materials in
the global scope, as well as carrying out the development of market in the global scope.
The change of the Multinational Corporations’ strategy explains that the reality and possibility that network
provides for integration of multiple resources, and explains that it is a new method for enterprises to chase the
space of maximizing profits through the resources integration of various factors of production and marketing
elements under the new situation of global economic integration.

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3. The Content and Characteristics of Enterprise Resources Integration
3.1. The Content of Enterprise Resources Integration
3.1.1. The Integration of Internal Resources and External Resources
In the process of the development of a venture enterprise, the enterprise’s internal resources are often insuffi-
cient or even scanty. This situation leads to absorbing and supplementing the necessary external resources—that
is the demand of integration of internal and external resources. Sometimes, it needs the integration of extensive,
multilateral and external resources integration, so that enterprises can have accurate analysis on a deal or a busi-
ness. At last, the enterprises can determine and make decisions. For example: H Company prepared using a nov-
el fiber fabric to produce garments. This requires the enterprises to integrate the information they have including
resource and product information, such as the testing report of the provision from product testing departments).
Then, they are ready for making a real and correct judgment of the performance and characteristics of the prod-
uct. At last, they can make the decision to order or not by this judgment whether the new fabric really has the
superiority.
3.1.2. The Integration of Market Development and Marketing Planning
Marketing needs planning. If venture enterprises want to expand the market as soon as possible, they need to in-
tegrate the act of expanding the market expectation and marketing in order to achieve better results.
For example: there was a new bean named red bean hybridized by soybean and sweet potato. At the beginning
of this new product, the owner made a rough packaging and marketed in the general stores. The effect was not
very good. Then the owner found a consulting company. They thought the effect would be good through pre-
liminary planning, packaging and the Internet after analysis. During the planning, planning staffs gave the prod-
uct a resounding name—“lily bean”, and designed an exquisite packaging—6 pieces of lily would be put in each
bag of one kilogram. Red bean, together with white lily, grows more attractive. Coupled with the meaning of lily
“a harmonious union lasting a hundred years”, they became very popular with people. After design ed , they soon
put the message to each site in the Chinese and English. And within ten days, 10 tons of products were all sold
out.
The above example illustrates, the planning of the wisdom and philosophy will add new vitality to the market
marketing, and integrated marketing and marketing will have a significant effect on the market. But it should be
pointed out that, the network marketing planning is different from traditional planning. While network focuses
on the whole planning process and Omni-direction, traditional planning focuses on ideas and schemes. They not
only need to come up with a creative idea, but also to help customers set a plan, and then to determine the plan
online until the integration of related resources on the Internet to make effectiveness release.
3.1.3. Integration of the Methods of Network Marketing and Traditional Marketing
With the development of computer technology and network information technology, many enterprises have es-
tablished their own business website (online store) or registered and logged in some of the famous Internet mar-
ket to launch the online marketing conditions. However, Internet marketing and traditional marketing are needed
to be integrated, because network marketing is developed on the basis of traditional marketing. The turning of
traditional marketing to the network marketing is gradual, from less to more. In the process of network market-
ing, the huge customers will not shift to network marketing at once, nor even possible. There must be a two-way
parallel period. During this period, enterprises canno t bear to lose this traditional market of customers; moreover,
they need to integrate the traditional marketing. Furthermore, the traditional marketing and traditional trading
will still be the main channel of certain transactions mode that consuming subject will choose in a certain period
of time.
From the process of online transactions, after the negotiation, there can be two optional choices while delivery:
online and traditional. It is obviou s th at online transactions are not as reliable as traditional trade way during the
whole network environment at present. Therefore, the seller and the buyer can mutually agree that they can
communicate and negotiate online, while using the traditional trading mode of delivery to avoid or reduce
transaction risk. As long as this is the real opinion belonging to both parties, can it be chosen completely by the
buyers and sellers.
3.1.4. The Integration of Hot and Cold Information
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becoming the incremental resources can they develop the value of information resources. For example: hot and
cold information need to be in tegrated. No matter in the traditional marketing or network marketing, thermal in-
formation is often noted while cold information is often neglected. However, there is much available value hid-
den in cold information. Therefore, in the practice of marketing, they need to integrate the hot and cold informa-
tion. Sometim es they may have to multi-integrate the resources in order to provide better services for the same
business. For example: company C will buy 4 big cabinets’ of miniature Christmas tree with self luminous by
mail before Christmas. The company D has the supply of goods, but none of them is the luminescent material,
so they cannot meet the company C’s requirements. However, once the company D adds 5 pieces of light emit-
ting beam blade inside the existing Christmas tree leaves can the goods meet the requirements of company C. In
this case, it will require enterprises to integrate heat and cold information existin g—find ing a manufacturer that
processes light beam blade company C needed. Then, they will be able to undertake foreign orders successfully.
[2].
3.2. Features of the Integration of Venture Enterprises’ Resource
3.2.1. Universa lity of Integration Demands
The information of today’s society is highly developed, together with perplexing interpersonal relations. To
strengthen the enterprises, each department needs to cooperate closely under such social circumstance. It will
need more coordination works to have the enterprises’ strength enriched, and reaching development goals at last.
That is to say, in the era of information economy, it is hard to achieve the goal only by oneself no matter in
scientific research, production, invention, nor in business activities. Just like an American schola r, Bean thinks
“Industrial society’s value is competition and the value of the era of knowledge economy is cooperation”.
Therefore, the brand new value will become a common pursuit for modern people. It is the universal integration
requirements for cooperation that provides the possibility for enterprises to integrate in a variety of resources, a
variety of channels and a variety of means [3].
3.2.2. Complementation of Integration
Integration is complementary. It can turn the local advantage into the overall advantages; dispersive advantage
into the comprehensive advantages; the scarce resources into the rich resources; incomplete information into
complete information. This complementation has great utility in venture enterprises. In the entrepreneurial
process, a considerable number of enterprises faced with the problems that often lead to the failure of achieving
the career, like lacking of funds, information, personnel and other resources. That will need them to enrich and
supplement the necessary external resources, using the complementary to make impossible things become poss-
ible; to make a deal with those impossible business; to occupy the impossible market. Finally, they will realize
complementing various resources and achieve win-win or multi win.
3.2.3. The Appreciation of Integration
The appreciation of integration is determined by complementarities of integration. After integration and com-
plementation, many problems impossible to solve are settled and difficult businesses are dealt with, which will
certainly produce appr eciation effect.
For example, taking market G as an example. There still are 9 comprehensive web-sites running by telecom-
munications offices in all districts expect for information port in city G. These sites cannot meet the demand of
users because of the small publicity, the repetition of column, the lack of information, and the narrow of scope.
Hundreds or thousands of visitors every day res ults in a waste of resources to a certain extent. G’s data center
based on the general thinks that “resource integration, jointly with the strong, the pursuit of quality and estab-
lishing a brand”, to integrate city G’s information port and G’s windows for two comprehensive network suc-
cessfully. Thus, we can find a new way for the next step to the development of Telecom website, and inject the
new vitality to G’s Telecom Integrated site.
Thus it can be seen that the advantage of integration external resource is very obvious, as well as the appreci-
ation of its integration.
Here is a comparative study on the effect of integration of network marketing business information by some
institution, as shown in Table 1 [4].
As the comparison on the table, the effect of integration of the information resources or not is quite different
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Table 1. 100 Business Information published case comparison.
The amount of information Publishing Web Sites Integration measures the effect before
integration The effect after integration
100 181 4 Feedback 2 Feedback 17,
Trading success 2
100 157 3 Feedback 3 Feedback 11,
Trading success 2
100 128 3 0 Feedback 9,
Trading success2
100 141 2 0 Feedback 7
100 167 0 0 0
4. The Strategic Integration in Different Types and Related Problems
Strategic integration has various types and methods. And different types or different situation of enterprises have
different requirements and priorities.
4.1. The Strategic Integration in the Process of Production
There are 3 tips that we should notice in the process of strategic design:
(1) Pay attention to strengthen the weak links. Try to avoid weaknes s caused by operation or process, thereby,
promoting the incremental structure.
(2) Strengthen the control of production process. Form the appreciation in the production process by control-
ling the “quality control” balance and standard.
(3) Attentions should be paid to solve the problem of lacking of management. Balance the synchronization of
control and management of production implement to avoid the situation of lacking of management.
4.2. The Strategic Integration in Marketing
The issue need to be considered in integrated marketing is:
(1) The integration of the channels of marketing should form the extension and expansion of channels.
(2) Integrated marketing tools should pay attention to the implicit strategic intents of integration process. To
integrate resources while not to explore strategic intents goes one better.
4.3. The Strategic Integration in Financial Management
Strategic integration in financial management should focus on the following three aspects:
(1) Seize the main items of the integrated financial management strategy, and lead the weaknesses. Only
highlights the main items, together with promoting the weaknesses can demonstrate the effect of integration.
(2) Do make the design of financial management strategy. Attentions should be paid to strengthen financial
management, management system implementation, and the real of the basic data. These true, implement com-
paction and the reality can lay a solid foundation for the integrated financial management after the appreciation.
(3) Make full use of modern information technology. Most of financial management effects are reflected
through a variety of digital. Therefore, the strategic integration of financial management should try to use digital
to present. Make full use of modern information technology with statistical analysis, and resolve the substantive
issues in financial management effectively [5].
4.4. The Strategic Integration in the Allocation of Human Resources
Strategic integration of human resource allocation should be noted in the following two points:
(1) Stick to the principle of allocation according to requirement. Don’t consume highly for human resources.
Any venture enterprises cannot bear the sinking of human resources. The sinking will form the waste of human
resources.
(2) Pay attention to balance the allocation and appropriate of integrated human resources.

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5. Problems Should Notice in Implementing the Strategic Integration
5.1. Guard against Formalism
The formalism in integration is unacceptable. Some enterprises engage in strategy of “big and complete”, at-
tempting to have a considerable number of enterprises integrated in their own house, and to be the bellwether of
industry. Howev er, the effects are often greatly disappointing. This integration does not analyze their respective
advantages and characteristics, but only pull up a batch of enterprises in form. It does not reflect the real need of
development and the inherent power. The effect is imaginable for having fancy formalism.
5.2. Avoid Blind Expansion
This happens frequently in integration that some enterprises do not have strategic thinking, indiscriminate, and
site integration blindly to expand the scale. Since there is no clear profit point, the size of the scale is rising on
the contrary of benefit. This is the misunderstanding of blind expansion.
5.3. Avoid Seemingly Harmonious
Another typical manifestation of integration is seemingly harmonious. The fusion needs time especially because
of the different culture between enterprise integrating and integrated. This difference is particularly evident in
the early stage of fusion. For an enterprise, the core competitiveness is the centripetal force and cohesion of the
team. It can often be seemingly harmonious if lacking of this core, even integrate the enterprise. That is what a
venture enterprise should avoid and prevent in the implementation of strategic integration.
Acknowledgements
This article is funded by Management Science and Engineering, Shanghai Second Polytechnic University, No.
XXKPY1313 .
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