The Relationship between TQM Practices and Quality Performance and the Role of Formal TQM Programs: An Australian Empirical Study

This paper studies on the formation mechanism of how organizational innovation is established and developed. We built a model including envirnomental change, organizational learning and organizational innovation. Using the empirical study as a sample of 194 enterprises the results of this paper show that (1) the external environment factors have no direct effent on organizational innovation. The main factor of organizational innovation driven is organizational learning. (2) the industry of environmental change on the organizational learning have a significant impact to organizational learning and changes in the macroeconomic environment had no significant effect to organizational learning.

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The role of internationalization in entrepreneurial orientation-performance link: empirical study of SMEs in a developing nation perspective

Review of International Business and Strategy ◽

10.1108/ribs-09-2019-0126 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽

Author(s):

Zaynab Dadzie ◽

Ahmed Agyapong ◽

Abdulai Suglo

Keyword(s):

Firm Performance ◽

Empirical Study ◽

Entrepreneurial Orientation ◽

Developing Nation ◽

Content Type ◽

Mediating Role ◽

And Performance ◽

The Impact ◽

The Relationship

Purpose This study aims to examine the mediating role of internationalization in the relationship between the dimensions of entrepreneurial orientation (EO) and performance, empirical study of small and medium scale enterprises (SMEs) in a developing nation. Design/methodology/approach The study uses a sample of 158 exporting SMEs based in the sub-Saharan developing economy, Ghana. The use of hierarchical regression (ordinary least square analysis) was used by the researcher to assess the suggested model of the study. Findings Largely supporting the conjectural predictions, the study indicates that EO positively and significantly influences performance; internationalization fully mediates the relationship between innovativeness and performance of export firms; internationalization fully mediates the relationship between risk-taking and performance of export firms; and finally, internationalization partially mediates the relationship between competitive aggressiveness and performance of export firms. Managers are, therefore, encouraged to strategically develop both their EO and internationalization, as the study has confirmed that EO has both a direct and indirect relationship with performance. Originality/value This study integrated a resource-based view of the firm and international entrepreneurship theory as a theoretical foundation. Theoretically, internationalization’s mediating role reveals the relevance of this construct in the linkage between entrepreneurial orientation and firm performance. Furthermore, the study extends the entrepreneurial orientation concept to the international business literature by estimating and testing models of the mediating link between entrepreneurial orientation and performance. Moreover, the study seeks to broaden the knowledge of entrepreneurial orientation and its relationship with performance in small and medium businesses. The study further extends the limited studies on performance, driven by entrepreneurial orientation and internationalization in a developing nation (Ghanaian) context. This paper besides seeks to highlight the impact of entrepreneurial orientation on performance when channeled through internationalization. The study also reveals the dimensions of entrepreneurial orientation to be important antecedents of internationalization, in attempts at unearthing the critical predictors of firm performance, especially those of international characteristics.

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Revisiting the Translator’s Visibility: Does Visibility Bring Rewards?

Meta Journal des traducteurs ◽

10.7202/1023808ar ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 58 (1) ◽

pp. 25-57 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Fung-Ming Christy Liu

Keyword(s):

Quantitative Analysis ◽

Empirical Study ◽

Learning Experience ◽

Translation Studies ◽

Social Variables ◽

Social Exchanges ◽

Level Of Education ◽

Qualitative Approaches ◽

The Relationship

There has been a huge revival of interest in the role of translators and their visibility. Some Translation Studies scholars have mobilized French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu’s theorical concepts of field, habitus and capital to carry out empirical research studies in an attempt to understand how translators or interpreters perceive their roles and what kind of capital they pursue. This article presents part of the findings from a large empirical study in which quantitative and qualitative approaches are combined in an attempt to carry out a thorough investigation of translators’ visibility, understood as the capacity to communicate directly with clients and/or end-users. The present article reports on the quantitative analysis of the relationship between translator’s visibility and the amount of capital that they say they receive. The analysis is based on 193 Chinese translators in China, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Macao. The findings suggest that visibility is rewarding in terms of social exchanges and learning experience, but not in terms of pay and prestige. In addition, the analysis shows that some social variables including sex, level of education, region that the translator lives in, the translator’s major field of study and the time spent on translation are not related to visibility or capital received. Meanwhile, the appearance of the translator’s name on translations is significantly related to the capital received.

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The empirical study on the relationship between information technology capability and innovation performance: The moderating role of learning commitment

2011 International Conference on E-Business and E-Government (ICEE) ◽

10.1109/icebeg.2011.5882049 ◽

2011 ◽

Author(s):

Cui Yu ◽

Ge Xin-quan

Keyword(s):

Information Technology ◽

Empirical Study ◽

Innovation Performance ◽

Technology Capability ◽

Information Technology Capability ◽

The Relationship ◽

Moderating Role

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Shareholding Patterns and its Impact on Firm Performance: A Contemporary Study of Indian NIFTY 50 Companies

Asian Journal of Managerial Science ◽

10.51983/ajms-2018.7.1.1291 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 7 (1) ◽

pp. 31-41

Author(s):

Raghu Katragadda ◽

A. Sreeram

Keyword(s):

Firm Performance ◽

Empirical Study ◽

Vital Role ◽

Monitoring And Control ◽

Book Value ◽

Contemporary Study ◽

And Control ◽

The Impact ◽

The Relationship

Ownership structure or the stakeholder structure of an organization often play significant role in operations decision, monitoring and control. This as a result possesses influences over process and hence performance. On the other hand, the role of stakeholders and respective conflict of interests can also be not ruled out. Under such circumstances, assessing the impact of organizational structure or stakeholder pattern and firm performance becomes inevitable to assess. In addition, the relationship between the investment pattern and respective conflicts of interests is inevitable to be examined. To ensure investment security corporate governance has played vital role that suggests assessing the inter-relationship between the stakeholder pattern and firm performance. With this motivation, in this paper an empirical study has been done to examine the impact of internal shareholding patterns on the associated firm’s performance. In this paper we have performed an empirical study where the aforementioned relationship has been examined for Indian listed NIFTY 50 companies for the duration of the financial year 2011 to 2016. Our empirical results provide evidence that insider shareholding is positively and significantly related to the firm performance as measured by market capitalization; market value by book value and Tobin’s Q.

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