scholarly journals Should we patent it or keep it a secret? The moderating role of proactive orientation in family versus non-family SMEs

2020 ◽  
pp. 026624262096539
Author(s):  
Elena M Gimenez-Fernandez ◽  
Karin Beukel ◽  
Beverly B Tyler ◽  
Nathalie Spielmann ◽  
Daniele Cerrato ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual Property ◽  
Wine Industry ◽  
Medium Size ◽  
Family Versus ◽  
Disclosure Of Information ◽  
Family Smes ◽  
Moderating Role

We investigate how family and non-family small-and-medium size enterprises (SMEs) differ in their preference for patenting over secrecy as a means to protect value of intellectual property, and how proactive orientation moderates this relationship. Because secrecy carries more risks for spillover than patenting, we propose and provide evidence to suggest that family SMEs are more likely to use patents than secrecy relative to non-family SMEs as a mechanism to protect value. However, proactive orientation can weaken this relationship, since SMEs with a proactive orientation will avoid the disclosure of information required for patenting. Using a sample of 300 SMEs from four countries in the wine industry, we find support for our hypotheses and contribute to both the intellectual property (IP) and SME literatures by explaining how family SMEs relative to non-family SMEs protect the value of IP.

scholarly journals Reputation and Advertising of Collective Brand Members in the Wine Industry: The Moderating Role of Market Share

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-20
Author(s):  
Ricardo Sellers-Rubio ◽  
Francisco Mas-Ruiz ◽  
Franco Sancho-Esper
Keyword(s):  
Market Share ◽  
Wine Industry ◽  
Curvilinear Relationship ◽  
Experience Goods ◽  
Firm Reputation ◽  
Information Sets ◽  
Collective Reputation ◽  
Positive Effect ◽  
Moderating Role

Abstract This paper analyzes the nonlinear relationship between the advertising investment and reputation of collective brand members in an experience goods industry, as well as the moderating role of their market share within the collective brand. The central assumption is that the quality reputation of collective brand members has a positive effect on their advertising investment until a reputation threshold is reached, after which the effect on advertising investment becomes negative. This change in the slope is explained by the information sets (firm reputation and collective reputation) used by consumers to reduce uncertainty, which leads to a weaker motivation for the firm to invest in advertising. In addition, scale economies of advertising mean that the market share of collective brand members negatively moderates the curvilinear relationship between quality reputation and advertising investment. The results for a sample of 176 companies in a Spanish experience goods industry (i.e., winemaking) between 2004 and 2014 show an inverted U-shaped relationship between the advertising investment and reputation of collective brand members. The results also show that market share negatively moderates this curvilinear relationship. (JEL Classifications: M31, M37, Q13)

MANAGEMENT INNOVATION, DRIVERS AND OUTCOMES: THE MODERATING ROLE OF ORGANISATIONAL SIZE

2020 ◽  
pp. 2150021
Author(s):  
DIMITRIOS KAFETZOPOULOS ◽  
KATERINA GOTZAMANI ◽  
FOTIS VOUZAS
Keyword(s):  
Medium Size ◽  
Management Innovation ◽  
Latent Factors ◽  
Marketing Innovation ◽  
Empirical Survey ◽  
Structural Relationships ◽  
Innovation Product ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Moderating Role

This article proposes a conceptual model to analyse the role of quality orientation and collaborations in firms’ management innovation, and also the impact of management innovation to product, process and marketing innovation. Moreover, the analysis considers organisational size as a key moderating factor in order to investigate whether the relationships among the model factors vary between small and medium size firms. To achieve these objectives an empirical survey was conducted among 429 firms. The structural relationships among the latent factors were determined through SEM. The findings show that the probability of success increases when firms use quality orientation and collaboration to support management innovation efforts. In addition, the findings suggest that management innovation positively affects product, process and marketing innovation while the organisational size acts as a moderator in the relationships among quality orientation, collaborations, management innovation, — product, process and marketing innovation, respectively.

Job resources, engagement, and proactivity: a moderated mediation model

2016 ◽  
Vol 31 (8) ◽  
pp. 1234-1250 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ceyda Maden-Eyiusta
Keyword(s):  
Positive Impact ◽  
Job Resources ◽  
Medium Size ◽  
Mediation Model ◽  
Job Fit ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Proactive Behaviors ◽  
Task Variety ◽  
Moderating Role

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the mediating impact of work engagement on the relationship between three developmental job resources (i.e. autonomy, task variety, and feedback) and proactive work behaviors. It also attempted to explore the moderating role of job fit (demands-abilities (D-A) fit and needs-supplies (N-S) fit) in the proposed model. Design/methodology/approach Data were collected from 225 employees in 20 small and medium-size enterprises in Istanbul, Turkey. Hypotheses were tested using hierarchical multiple regressions and hierarchical moderated regressions. Findings It was found that engagement mediated the relationships between job autonomy, task variety, and proactive behaviors. Results also revealed that the relationships between autonomy, task variety, and engagement were positive and significant only for the employees with low D-A fit while the positive impact of engagement on proactive behaviors existed only for those employees with high N-S fit. The conditional indirect impact of job resources on proactive behaviors was strongest when the D-A fit was low and the N-S fit was high while this effect was non-significant when the D-A fit was high and the N-S fit was (either) low or high. Research limitations/implications The generalizability of the findings is limited. Moreover, as the data are cross-sectional, it is not possible to derive causal inferences about the hypothesized relationships. Practical implications Organizations should provide their employees with more autonomy and task variety to enhance their engagement and proactivity. Moreover, organizations need to consider their employees’ level of job fit when they provide certain job resources. Originality/value This study tests the mediating role of engagement on the relationships between three developmental job resources and proactive behaviors. It also sheds light on the moderating role of job fit in the proposed mediation model.

The impact of the CEO's financial literacy on family SMEs' growth: the moderating role of generational stage

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Julio Diéguez-Soto ◽  
María J. Martínez-Romero ◽  
Maarten Corten ◽  
Anneleen Michiels
Keyword(s):  
Financial Literacy ◽  
Firm Growth ◽  
Family Firms ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Generation Family ◽  
Family Smes ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Moderating Role ◽  
Generational Stage

PurposeThis study investigates the impact of the CEO's financial literacy on family SMEs' growth, as well as the moderating role of the generational stage on this relationship.Design/methodology/approachThe study is based on survey data of Spanish private family firms and utilizes a second source of data, the SABI database by Bureau Van Dijk. The authors run ordinary least squares regressions and use both the base and the partition approaches to test the hypotheses.FindingsThe analysis reveals a positive association between the CEO's financial literacy and firm growth. However, this relationship is not uniform across generations. The CEO's financial literacy-firm growth relationship becomes weaker for first- and third or subsequent-generation family firms while becoming stronger for second-generation family firms.Originality/valueThis study adds the financial literacy of the CEO as a novel individual-level determinant of family firm growth. It also shows that CEOs do not always use their financial literacy to its full potential to foster growth. More specifically, the extent to which financial literacy leads to firm growth is found to be conditional on the generational stage of the family SME. The obtained findings are valuable for family SMEs intending to hire a new CEO, encouraging the financial literacy of the current CEO and educating the next generation of family members.

CEO's empathy and salience of socioemotional wealth in family SMEs – The moderating role of external directors

2013 ◽  
Vol 25 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 111-134 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sanjay Goel ◽  
Wim Voordeckers ◽  
Anita van Gils ◽  
Jeroen van den Heuvel
Keyword(s):  
Socioemotional Wealth ◽  
Family Smes ◽  
Moderating Role

Testing the Strain Theory of Suicide – The Moderating Role of Social Support

Crisis ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 41 (2) ◽  
pp. 82-88 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bob Lew ◽  
Ksenia Chistopolskaya ◽  
Yanzheng Liu ◽  
Mansor Abu Talib ◽  
Olga Mitina ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Support ◽  
Suicidal Behavior ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
Perceived Social Support ◽  
Strain Theory ◽  
Cross Sectional Survey ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Psychological Strains ◽  
Moderating Role

Abstract. Background: According to the strain theory of suicide, strains, resulting from conflicting and competing pressures in an individual's life, are hypothesized to precede suicide. But social support is an important factor that can mitigate strains and lessen their input in suicidal behavior. Aims: This study was designed to assess the moderating role of social support in the relation between strain and suicidality. Methods: A sample of 1,051 employees were recruited in Beijing, the capital of China, through an online survey. Moderation analysis was performed using SPSS PROCESS Macro. Social support was measured with the Multidimensional Scale of Perceived Social Support, and strains were assessed with the Psychological Strains Scale. Results: Psychological strains are a good predictor of suicidality, and social support, a basic need for each human being, moderates and decreases the effects of psychological strains on suicidality. Limitations: The cross-sectional survey limited the extent to which conclusions about causal relationships can be drawn. Furthermore, the results may not be generalized to the whole of China because of its diversity. Conclusion: Social support has a tendency to mitigate the effects of psychological strains on suicidality.

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