scholarly journals Technological capacity and knowledge acquisition as key performance factors in SMEs of the industrial sector of Cali-Colombia

2017 ◽  
Vol 33 (59) ◽  
pp. 50-63
Author(s):  
Omar Javier Solano Rodríguez
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Acquisition ◽  
Organizational Performance ◽  
Information Technologies ◽  
Small And Medium Enterprises ◽  
Statistical Significance ◽  
Industrial Sector ◽  
Structural Equations ◽  
Performance Factors ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Medium Enterprises

Information technologies (IT) can be largely the solution or the problem of the sustainability and performance of small and medium enterprises (SMEs). IT is an important source of resources that can improve the competitiveness of SMEs. Therefore, the aim of this article is to identify the IT competences of SMEs and to establish their relationship with knowledge acquisition (KA), the way of managing the accounting information system (AIS) and its impact on the performance of the company. The model uses the technique of structural equations based on variance, making an empirical study based on the information of 124 Colombian SMEs in the industrial sector. The results obtained allow us to conclude that IT directly and through KA processes significantly help to increase organizational performance. It is confirmed that IT is decisive for an efficient management of AIS information, although this does not contribute to the performance of the company, given that in the relations between the SIC management variable and performance (DSEMP) a negative coefficient was identified between the constructs and with no statistical significance. This research contributes to the development of resource and capacity theories and dynamic capacity. It also allows the identification of technological capabilities of the SME, its processes in KA and how to measure the efficiency of AIS, management and organizational performance.

scholarly journals Entrepreneurial Resilience and Performance of an Organization: A Survey of Small and Medium Enterprises in Asaba, Delta State, Nigeria

Webology ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 445-461
Author(s):  
Ibini Emueje ◽  
Henry Odigwe Olannye ◽  
A.P. Olanye
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Performance ◽  
Small And Medium Enterprises ◽  
Design Method ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Research Survey ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Medium Enterprises ◽  
Positive Effect ◽  
Structured Questionnaire

Resilience is a vibrant process of adaptation which enables entrepreneurs to constantly direct a futuristic aspiration despite the volatile conditions of a market. The study examined entrepreneurial resilience on the performance of small and medium enterprises organization in Asaba, Delta State. The cross-sectional research survey research design method was employed. The study adopted the stratified random sampling technique. The sample size used was limited to 201 respondents. A structured questionnaire was the research instrument employed in the study. Descriptive statistics as well as multiple regression analysis was used to analyse the data collected. Findings showed overwhelmingly that resourcefulness, strategic diversity and pro-activeness has a substantial positive relationship with organizational performance. The study concluded that entrepreneurial resilience has a positive effect on organizational performance. The study result showed that resourcefulness has the highest affirmative effect on organizational performance. Thus, the study recommended that if enterprises understand the nature of the association amid the dimensions of entrepreneurial resilience, the failure rate of small and medium enterprises can be reduced.

scholarly journals Comparative analysis of small and medium enterprises organizational performance in clothing industry

2017 ◽  
Vol 68 (02) ◽  
pp. 156-162 ◽  
Author(s):  
CEPTUREANU SEBASTIAN ION ◽  
CEPTUREANU EDUARD GABRIEL ◽  
VISILEANU EMILIA
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Performance ◽  
Small And Medium Enterprises ◽  
Clothing Industry ◽  
Organizational Capability ◽  
East Europe ◽  
South East Europe ◽  
Methodological Approaches ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Medium Enterprises ◽  
Miles And Snow

The concept of organizational capability has become a “fashionable” one in recent years in scientific literature regarding strategy. Unfortunately, there are only a few academic researches that treat the links between organizational capability and performance in the small and medium companies from clothing industry. This paper aims to investigate by using econometric and statistical specific techniques connections between strategy, capability, organizations internal and external strategic environment and performance of the in SMEs from clothing industry in some countries form South-East Europe by using relevant methodological approaches provided by Miles and Snow and Porter theories. The results confirm the existence of peculiarities between the concepts involved in SMEs from clothing industry in all analysed cultures.

scholarly journals IMPACT OF DYNAMIC CAPABILITIES ON SMALL AND MEDIUM ENTERPRISES PERFORMANCE IN A VOLATILE ENVIRONMENT AS MODERATED BY ORGANIZATIONAL INERTIA

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Prasheenaa Jeyaranjan ◽  
Thavakumar D
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Performance ◽  
Dynamic Capabilities ◽  
Small And Medium Enterprises ◽  
Competitive Advantages ◽  
Significant Relationships ◽  
Organizational Inertia ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Medium Enterprises ◽  
The Relationship

In Sri Lanka especially in Batticaloa, the studies related to dynamic capabilities, organizational inertia and organizational performance are rare and there is need to fill this empirical gap by investigating the influence of the dynamic capabilities of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) on organizational performance, and the interaction between dynamic capabilities and organizational inertia in a volatile environment. Therefore, this study has been undertaken to examine the relationship among these three variables and to assess the moderating role of organizational inertia in relationship between dynamic capabilities and organizational performance. The findings indicated that the variables have significant relationships among them and further findings of this study revealed that organizational inertia negatively moderates the relationship between dynamic capabilities and organizational performance of SMEs in Manmunai North Divisional Secretariat in Batticaloa District. By addressing the findings of this study SME owners could try to reduce the inertia in their business by which the relationship between dynamic capabilities and performance can be induced and this lead the businesses in achieving competitive advantages.

scholarly journals BFE Model—Business, Family and Environment—As Subsystems of the Family-Owned Business in Mexico City Metropolitan Area

Resources ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 96 ◽  
Author(s):  
Omar de la Cruz Vicente ◽  
Verónica López Castro ◽  
Leovardo Mata Mata ◽  
Fernando Tomé Bermejo
Keyword(s):  
Mexico City ◽  
Family Business ◽  
Metropolitan Area ◽  
Small And Medium Enterprises ◽  
Business Environment ◽  
Structural Equations ◽  
Business Sector ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Medium Enterprises ◽  
Circle Model

This work proposes a model starting from the Three-Circle Model, based on the reality of the small and medium-sized family business sector in the Mexico City Metropolitan Area. The present paper proposes a new model that was built based on the Three Circle Model, but it is based on the reality of the Small and Medium Mexican family business sector. The model does not include the Ownership Subsystem, but it includes the Environment Subsystem, a subsystem that has a vital influence on the life and performance of an organization of that size. These three subsystems intersect in common elements such as culture, economy or company vision, triggering the success or failure of the company itself. The methodology used was a mixed methodology, with both qualitative and quantitative elements. First, the Delphi method was used on a scale that was applied to 25 owners of Small and Medium Enterprises and then, to make an additional confirmation, hypothesis testing, factorial analysis and the technique of structural equations were used. It was seen that the ownership subsystem has a lower weight than the business, environment and family subsystems, is the least relevant.

scholarly journals Entrepreneurial Resilience and Performance of an Organization: A Survey of Small and Medium Enterprises in Asaba, Delta State, Nigeria

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
AISDL
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Performance ◽  
Small And Medium Enterprises ◽  
Design Method ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Research Survey ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Medium Enterprises ◽  
Positive Effect ◽  
Structured Questionnaire

Resilience is a vibrant process of adaptation which enables entrepreneurs to constantly direct a futuristic aspiration despite the volatile conditions of a market. The study examined entrepreneurial resilience on the performance of small and medium enterprises organization in Asaba, Delta State. The cross-sectional research survey research design method was employed. The study adopted the stratified random sampling technique. The sample size used was limited to 201 respondents. A structured questionnaire was the research instrument employed in the study. Descriptive statistics as well as multiple regression analysis was used to analyse the data collected. Findings showed overwhelmingly that resourcefulness, strategic diversity and pro-activeness has a substantial positive relationship with organizational performance. The study concluded that entrepreneurial resilience has a positive effect on organizational performance. The study result showed that resourcefulness has the highest affirmative effect on organizational performance. Thus, the study recommended that if enterprises understand the nature of the association amid the dimensions of entrepreneurial resilience, the failure rate of small and medium enterprises can be reduced.

scholarly journals Analysis of the impact of training on the performance of Small and Medium-sized enterprises in Northwest Mexico, by applying the Structural Equations Statistical Technique (SEM-PLS)

Management ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 75-98
Author(s):  
María Del Carmen Vásquez-Torres ◽  
Arturo Tavizón Salazar ◽  
José Guadalupe Flores López
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Performance ◽  
Small And Medium Enterprises ◽  
Alternative Hypothesis ◽  
Statistical Technique ◽  
Structural Equations ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Northwest Mexico ◽  
Northwestern Mexico ◽  
Medium Enterprises ◽  
The Impact

Summary Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) are fundamental to the economy of all countries, representing the majority, with a considerable contribution to GDP, as well as generating jobs; for this reason, it must seek to remain in the market. The objective is to analyze the impact of training on the organizational performance of SMEs in northwestern Mexico, applying the statistical technique of structural equations model (SEM-PLS); the research was conducted to 195, considering the commercial, industrial and services, is a quantitative study, descriptive, correlational, causal, using the statistical technique of structural equations with the SMART PLS 3.3.2 software, and not experimental cross-sectional. The alternative hypothesis is accepted, since training has an effect on the organizational performance of SMEs in northwestern Mexico. It is highly significant because there is very strong evidence of the causality of the mediating variable training on the organizational performance of SMEs with 99.9% reliability. Training has the greatest effect on organizational performance because each unit that increases training will have an effect of +0.453, being the variable with the greatest cause-effect impact on organizational performance in SMEs in northwestern Mexico.

Effect of Product Turnover on Company Performance of SMEs

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 115-119
Author(s):  
Agus Sobar ◽  
Asep Deni ◽  
Riki Riswandi ◽  
Dendi Zainuddin Hamidi ◽  
Indra Permadi
Keyword(s):  
Regression Analysis ◽  
Linear Regression ◽  
Small And Medium Enterprises ◽  
Linear Regression Analysis ◽  
Measurement Model ◽  
Industrial Sector ◽  
Company Performance ◽  
Simple Linear Regression ◽  
Medium Enterprises ◽  
Positive Effect

Research related to the effect of product turnover on the performance of companies in the industrial sector is still needed to do research and study in depth. This is needed because the developed sector, especially related to product rotation, has an important role in advancing the sustainability of the company. The research methodology in this research is descriptive quantitative using simple linear regression analysis and using SPSS v 23 and Amos v 23 software as a calculation tool through a measurement model using simple Linear Regression at 87 MSMEs in Sukabumi City. The results of this study indicate a positive effect of product turnover on the performance of Small and Medium Enterprises.

scholarly journals DIGITAL DIVIDE OF SMALL AND MEDIUM-SIZED ENTERPRISES: AN ANALYSIS OF INFLUENCING FACTORS USING THE TOE THEORY

2017 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 15-48 ◽  
Author(s):  
CESAR ALEXANDRE DE SOUZA ◽  
ÉRICA SOUZA SIQUEIRA ◽  
NICOLAU REINHARD
Keyword(s):  
Digital Divide ◽  
Small And Medium Enterprises ◽  
Mortality Rates ◽  
Structural Equations ◽  
Second Order ◽  
Adoption Model ◽  
Medium Enterprises ◽  
Effective Use ◽  
Methodological Aspects ◽  
Linear Regressions

ABSTRACT Purpose: This study describes the phenomenon of digital divide in small and medium enterprises in Brazil by means of an indicator of ICTs use in these organizations. Originality/gap/relevance/implications: There are several studies on the adoption of ICTs by organizations, however rare are those that explore the topic using the concept of digital divide. This study addresses the second order digital divide, related to the effective use of ICTs by companies. Key methodological aspects: The study was carried out based on a sample of 3,231 companies participating in the "TIC Empresas" survey of 2014 (published in 2015). By means of structural equations, an index was created to measure the intensity of the ICTs use in organizations and factors that affect it were verified through linear regressions. Summary of key results: The first result concerns the feasibility of an index that measures the ICTs use. Then, when analyzing its distribution, we can see the discrepancy of values between companies in relation to their size. The regression analysis indicates that the access to technology and the Internet, as well as ICTs skills and attitudes are factors correlated to a more intense use of ICTs by organizations. Key considerations/conclusions: Digital divide is a phenomenon related to high enterprise mortality rates and low productivity in small and medium-sized enterprises. This study outlines a possible way to study this phenomenon, integrating an adoption model (TOE) and a model of ICTs use in the context of second order digital divide.

scholarly journals Firm Performance: Does Mastering a Foreign Language Matter?

10.29007/dkzg ◽  
2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Remedios Hernández Linares ◽  
María José Naranjo ◽  
Héctor Sánchez Santamaría ◽  
Mercedes Rico García ◽  
Laura Fielden Burns ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Organizational Performance ◽  
Small And Medium Enterprises ◽  
Language Education ◽  
Foreign Language Education ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
First Semester ◽  
Improved Performance ◽  
Medium Enterprises ◽  
The Impact

Over the last twenty years the impact of language in international and multinational companies has attracted significant scholarly attention, which is reflected in the growing literature. However, and despite the fact that small and medium enterprises (SMEs) constitute the engine of numerous economies worldwide, the impact of foreign languages on SMEs’ performance remains understudied. This is especially intricate because, considering that SMEs often have fewer resources, the commitment of such resources to language acquisition and foreign language education can only be justified in the case of improved performance. To address this gap, the objective of our research aims to get insights whether and how the domain of a foreign language (mainly English) affects SMEs’ performance. For this purpose, we perform an exploratory empirical study based on data collected through a telephone questionnaire during the first semester of 2017. A group of private Spanish SMEs constitutes our sample. Our work presents the results of the statistical analysis of these primary data, and contributes to a more nuanced perspective on language utility for organizational performance.

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