scholarly journals Benchmarking Firm-level Resources, Capabilities, and Postures Driving Export Performance of SMEs

2017 ◽  
Vol 63 (1) ◽  
pp. 47-58 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Celec ◽  
Dietfried Globocnik
Keyword(s):  
Risk Taking ◽  
Success Factors ◽  
International Entrepreneurship ◽  
Export Performance ◽  
Dynamic Capability ◽  
Firm Level ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Resource Based View ◽  
Entrepreneurship Theory

AbstractThis paper aimed to identify success factors of export performance for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Drawing on the resource-based view, the dynamic capability view, and international entrepreneurship theory, we extracted relevant assets, capabilities, and postures at the firm level. An extended benchmarking method was applied to empirically test the proposed success factors with a cross-sectional sample of 99 Slovenian SMEs. The results highlight the crucial role of management competence, financial and human resources, market orientation, negotiation flexibility, and a proactive and risk-taking posture to achieve superior export performance.

scholarly journals Relationship Between Emotional Intelligence and Health Behaviours among University Students: The Predictive and Moderating Role of Gender

2018 ◽  
Vol 2018 ◽  
pp. 1-11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Romualdas Malinauskas ◽  
Audrone Dumciene ◽  
Saule Sipaviciene ◽  
Vilija Malinauskiene
Keyword(s):  
Emotional Intelligence ◽  
University Students ◽  
Health Behaviour ◽  
Risk Taking ◽  
Health Behaviours ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Stepwise Multiple Regression ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
The Relationship

This study investigated the role of gender as a potential predictor of health behaviour and potential moderator of the relationship between emotional intelligence and health behaviour. This cross-sectional study included 1214 students (597 males and 617 females). Data were collected using the Schutte Self-Report Inventory and the Health Behaviour Checklist. Stepwise multiple regression analysis was executed with the components of health behaviour as the dependent variables to examine the predictive value of the emotional intelligence indicators as the independent variables. Gender predicted all categories of health behaviours. Only one indicator of emotional intelligence, appraisal, predicted the Accident Control and Traffic Risk Taking categories. The emotional intelligence indicator of social skills emerged only as a predictor of Wellness Maintenance and Enhancement in university students. Gender moderates the relationship between all emotional intelligence indicators and health behaviour components except the relationship between Appraisal and Substance Risk Taking and the relationship between Utilization and traffic risk taking.

Communities of Purpose

2009 ◽  
pp. 197-212
Author(s):  
Ashley Broganza
Keyword(s):  
Communities Of Practice ◽  
External Environment ◽  
Organizational Knowledge ◽  
Organizational Capabilities ◽  
Dynamic Capability ◽  
Resource Based View ◽  
Stakeholder Interests ◽  
Central Interest ◽  
Training Programmes

The integration of organizational knowledge across functional communities is increasingly seen as important. The frameworks to do so are often referred to as a ‘higher order set of principles’ or as ‘overarching architectures.’ While recognizing these frameworks as a source of competitive advantage, this chapter underlines the importance of linking organizational knowledge to practice. At the operational level, actual practices are rarely aligned with canonical practices contained in manuals, training programmes, and computer systems. In this theoretical chapter we show that the divergence between actual and canonical practices is exacerbated by a number of communities of practice addressing conflicting stakeholder interests. It is the link between knowledge and actual practice that is of central interest to this chapter. Exploring this relationship necessitates a reexamination of the role of communities of practice and frameworks for bringing together conflicting stakeholder interests. Drawing upon literatures from knowledge management, communities of practice, stakeholder, and resource-based theory this chapter suggests an integrative Purposive Community metaframework. The proposed conceptual framework contributes to the resource-based view of the firm by linking organizational knowledge to actual practices and enhancing organizational capabilities by integrating diverse stakeholder interests and expectations through a shared common goal. Such a metaframework can enhance an organisation’s dynamic capability to respond to and create change in its external environment.

scholarly journals The Role of Knowledge Adoptive Capacity towards Exports Performance

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (5) ◽  
pp. 62-71
Author(s):  
Ramaisa Aqdas ◽  
Nik Ab Halim Nik Abdullah
Keyword(s):  
Absorptive Capacity ◽  
Quantitative Data ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Positive Relationship ◽  
Export Performance ◽  
Dynamic Capability ◽  
Significant Positive Relationship ◽  
Knowledge Based

Purpose - Knowledge absorptive capacity plays a significant role in export performance. It is a dynamic capability that firms apply to gain competitiveness in today’s knowledge-based economies. The aim of the present research is to identify relationship among dimensions of KAC and export performance. Design/Methodology - Nature of study was descriptive and quantitative. Data was collected through questionnaires from 291 large scale textile firms of Pakistan. Smart PLS was used in analyzing data by incorporating CFA and SEM techniques to test the hypotheses. Findings - The results reveal that knowledge acquisition, transformation, and exploitation have significant positive relationship with export performance.

scholarly journals Entrepreneurial approaches to the internationalisation of Portugal’s hotel industry

2019 ◽  
Vol 31 (3) ◽  
pp. 1141-1165 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ricardo J.C. de Correia ◽  
Jorge Lengler ◽  
Asad Mohsin
Keyword(s):  
Design Methodology ◽  
International Entrepreneurship ◽  
Hotel Industry ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Resource Based View ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Entrepreneurial Attitudes ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Further Development

Purpose The purpose of this study is to assess motivational factors in the internationalisation of Portuguese hotel firms. Design/methodology/approach The epistemological approach that supports the development of this study is based on a deductive strategy. A comprehensive multi-case study was performed in which theoretical propositions were tested prior to further development. Findings The results of this study reveal that the internationalisation process of Portuguese hotel companies was triggered by managers’ entrepreneurial attitudes and international vision that in themselves embraced a combination of particular resources and competencies. Research limitations/implications Noteworthy are study’s contributions to international entrepreneurship as an individual act within existing social networks established by managers and the management team as a result of previous business experiences. The impact of this overall entrepreneurial profile on firms’ behaviour is also of interest. Limitations of the study relate to its cross-sectional nature and the number of interviewees. Originality/value The integration of economic paradigms with behaviour theories and the resource-based view to understand how and why Portuguese hotel companies engage in international endeavours is a major contribution of this study.

Export performance of India and its impact on GDP during post economic-reforms period

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (02) ◽  
Author(s):  
Satyanarayana Rentala ◽  
Prabhakar Nandru
Keyword(s):  
Export Performance ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
Economic Reforms ◽  
Survey Method ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Future Studies ◽  
Indian Context ◽  
Context Data ◽  
Creativity Studies

Mindfulness is defined as the attentiveness that surfaces through awareness on reason, in the current moment, and non-judgmentally to the recitation of occurrence, instant by instant. It has been found to influence individual’s openness to experience, attention span, and creativity. Studies in the western context, have suggested the influence of mindfulness on several facets of an entrepreneur. The present study tests the influence of demography on the level of mindfulness among entrepreneurs in the Indian context. Data is collected using the survey method, from 114 entrepreneurs in Bengaluru. Snowballing sampling technique is used to conduct the study. The 14 item Freiburg Mindfulness Inventory scale developed by Walach et al. (2006), is used to measure the level of mindfulness among the entrepreneurs. The reliability of the instrument was found to be 0.75, which is acceptable. T- test and ANOVA were employed to test the hypothesized relationships between the study variables. The current research did not find any evidence of demography on the levels of mindfulness among entrepreneurs in the Indian context.The findings of this study reaffirms the limited role of demography on the mindfulness of individuals and suggests that mindfulness can be developed using mindfulness improvement techniques irrespective of their demography. The study was cross-sectional, so the inferences about causality are limited. Future studies can collect data at different points in the career of an entrepreneur and compare the same.

scholarly journals The influence of entrepreneurial intensity and capabilities on internationalisation and firm performance

2015 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 260-276 ◽  
Author(s):  
Boris Urban ◽  
Mpho R Sefalafala
Keyword(s):  
Firm Performance ◽  
Emerging Economies ◽  
Risk Taking ◽  
International Entrepreneurship ◽  
Foreign Markets ◽  
Firm Level ◽  
Domestic Markets ◽  
Weak Evidence ◽  
Environmental Hostility ◽  
Made In

International entrepreneurship represents the process of discovering and creatively exploiting opportunities that exist outside a firm’s national borders in order to obtain a competitive advantage. Firms in emerging economies are increasingly looking towards internationalisation since they are faced with rising competition in their domestic markets and attracted to opportunities in foreign markets. This article investigates international entrepreneurship by examining how the influence of entrepreneurial intensity and capabilities at the firm level influence performance, while at the same time considering environmental influences on this relationship. Based on past theoretical and empirical findings, hypotheses are formulated and then tested using correlational and regression analysis. Generally, the results support the hypotheses where both entrepreneurial intensity and capabilities are positively related to internationalisation and firm performance, while weak evidence is found for environmental hostility as a moderating influence. Several recommendations are made in light of the findings, where it is suggested that firms foster higher levels of innovativeness, risk-taking and proactiveness while developing human, social and technology related capabilities in order to enhance their performance and increase their levels of internationalisation.

scholarly journals The effect of entrepreneurial orientation on the export performance of apparel industry

2021 ◽  
pp. 11-20
Author(s):  
Kamal Hossain ◽  
Ilhaamie Binti Abdul Ghani Azmi
Keyword(s):  
Least Squares ◽  
Risk Taking ◽  
Entrepreneurial Orientation ◽  
Export Performance ◽  
Apparel Industry ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
Cross Sectional Survey ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
High Level ◽  
The Impact

This study examines the impact of entrepreneurial orientation (EO) dimensions on the apparel industry's export performance. EO considers as innovativeness, proactiveness, and risk-taking dimensions. The determinants of export performance are firms' financial, strategic, and satisfaction levels of performance. A cross-sectional survey is carried out by providing a questionnaire to high-level managers and owners of the MLEs. Primary data of 339 treated by partial least squares (PLS-SEM) technique examines EO dimensions' impact on export performance. The findings of this study revealed that innovativeness and proactiveness positively and significantly impact export performance. However, risk-taking dimension does not affect export performance.

scholarly journals Entrepreneurial Orientation in Government-Owned Bank: Do They Improve Competitive Advantage?

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 262
Author(s):  
Maryono . ◽  
Imam Ghozali ◽  
Amie Kusumawardhani ◽  
R. Mahelan Prabantarikso ◽  
Firdaus Basbeth
Keyword(s):  
Competitive Advantage ◽  
Risk Taking ◽  
Entrepreneurial Orientation ◽  
High Performance ◽  
Dynamic Capabilities ◽  
Mediating Effect ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
The Government ◽  
High Performance Organization

In Indonesia, housing finance is mainly raised from banks, with the government-owned housing bank (GOHB) BTN taking the largest share of the market. In constantly growing population need for new housing unit every year and increased number of competitors requires managers of government-owned housing bank to be able to develop their dynamic capabilities and adopt a more entrepreneurial orientation (EO). However, (GOHB) are typically being linked to organization that administratively influenced by government that impeding GOHB from being high performance organization driven by EO. Moreover, the dual goals of GOHB which are business and social goals makes the managers struggle to develop and adopt entrepreneurial orientation, since they have to set priorities and trade-off between those goals. The aims of this study is to investigate the role of entrepreneurial orientation (EO) in improving competitive advantage of government-owned housing bank, and fills a gap in the literature by linking entrepreneurial orientation to the theory of dynamic capabilities. This study explored the mediating effect of multi-dimensional EO which is: innovativeness, proactiveness, and risk taking in the relationship between dynamic capabilities (DC) and competitive advantage. The method of the study is a survey using area sampling and proportionate random sampling to collect data from 115 managers in 20 branches in island of Java, during the month of May to August, 2018 (cross-sectional method). The result shows a positive relationship between dynamic capabilities to innovativeness, proactiveness and risk taking. As expecting risk taking has no mediating effect to competitive advantage.

scholarly journals The Role of Intrapreneurship on the Growth of Iron and Steel Manufacturing Companies in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (1(J)) ◽  
pp. 22-37
Author(s):  
Alex Madzikova ◽  
Gwendoline Vusumuzi Nani
Keyword(s):  
Risk Taking ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Manufacturing Companies ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Iron And Steel ◽  
Product Range ◽  
Steel Manufacturing ◽  
Supervisory Staff ◽  
Company Growth

This study sought to find out the role of intrapreneurship on the growth of iron and steel manufacturing companies in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe. A post-positivist paradigm, a mixed method approach and a cross sectional design were adopted for the investigation. Three hundred and fifteen (315) middle management and supervisory staff drawn from twenty-two (22) iron and steel manufacturing companies in Bulawayo participated. Multiple stratified random sampling and heterogeneous purposive sampling were used to choose two hundred (200) respondents for the quantitative study and eight participants for the qualitative study respectively. Questionnaires and in-depth interviews were the data collecting instruments for quantitative and qualitative data respectively. Quantitative data was analysed using descriptive and inferential statistics and qualitative data was thematically analysed. Findings revealed that innovativeness, proactiveness, and risk taking were the key dimensions of intrapreneurship. Both quantitative and qualitative analyses showed the prominent measures of company growth in the iron and steel manufacturing companies as financial, employee numbers, productivity, and product range. Statistically intrapreneurship was found to be correlated to the growth of the iron and steel manufacturing companies. The study drew the following conclusions. Firstly, intrapreneurship is not a preferred strategy for driving growth in the iron and steel manufacturing companies in Bulawayo. Secondly, financial and product range were identified as the key measures of company growth. Thirdly, company support for intrapreneurship and individual’s intrapreneurial disposition were statistically linked to company growth. The study recommended that companies should motivate and support employees’ innovativeness, proactiveness, and risk taking through ideas, actions and work. Measurement of company growth should be expanded to include qualitative measures.

scholarly journals The Role of Export Clusters in Export Performance of SMEs: The Case of Iranian Energy Industry

2015 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 137
Author(s):  
Sarah Sedigheh Ebadzadeh Semnani ◽  
Hossein Dadfar ◽  
Staffan Brege
Keyword(s):  
Public Relations ◽  
Trust Management ◽  
Social Power ◽  
Export Performance ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Energy Industry ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Archival Documents

<div><strong>Purpose:</strong> This study was carried out with the aim of exploring the effects of export clusters formation on export performance of SMEs in Iranian energy industry.</div><div> </div><div><strong>Methodology/Approach:</strong> The study was undertaken through having three case studies, each on a different export cluster currently active within Iranian energy industry. The data was collected through semi-structured interviews with both managers and members of each export cluster as well as study of their archival documents. </div><div> </div><div><strong>Findings:</strong> The results confirmed that all three export clusters managed to successfully identify their members’ needs and undertook certain measures within their own authority and control, to mitigate these risks. Moreover, the secondary data showed positive growth rate of export level after the establishment of these export clusters. Interestingly, the strong suits of all three export clusters were mainly related to communication and relationship aspects. These three factors were: ability to create Informal Network within members, Public Relations and Training/Consultation. </div><div> </div><div><strong>Research Limitation/implication:</strong> This study was limited to the export clusters in Iranian energy industry, and on a cross-sectional time horizon basis. It therefore cannot be generalized to all industries and we might witness certain changes in findings if the study is undertaken at different point in time. However, the study shed light on certain important aspects such as nature of relationships within the members of each cluster, the role of trust management and social power as well as the need to place more focus on SMEs in export clusters.</div><div> </div><div><strong>Originality/Value of paper:</strong> Even though there are recently many studies on the concept of export clusters and their positive impacts on the growth in export of various countries throughout the world; but so far, there had been no similar study undertaken with a focus on Iran and not enough empirical evidence had previously been provided on export clusters performance in a developing country.</div>

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