scholarly journals Open Innovation with Relational Capital, Technological Innovation Capital, and International Performance in SMEs

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (6) ◽  
pp. 3418
Author(s):  
Dongwoo Ryu ◽  
Kwang Ho Baek ◽  
Junghyun Yoon
Keyword(s):  
Technological Innovation ◽  
Open Innovation ◽  
Small And Medium Enterprises ◽  
Hierarchical Regression ◽  
Relational Capital ◽  
Innovation Capability ◽  
Perspective View ◽  
International Performance ◽  
Medium Enterprises ◽  
The Relationship

The importance of international markets is constantly emphasized for small and medium enterprises(SMEs). In previous studies, technological innovation capabilities were emphasized as a factor that enables SMEs to compete in the international market. To this end, SMEs need to cooperate with external partners to strengthen their technological innovation capabilities to thus improve their international performance. With the perspective view of open innovation, this research explores the effects of relational capital and technological innovation capability on international performance, with a particular focus on the moderating effect of alliance proactiveness. Building on previous literature regarding internationalization, technological innovation, and alliance proactiveness, research hypotheses were developed and tested using data collected from 175 SMEs. A hierarchical regression analysis was applied. The analysis showed that, first, relational capital had a significant effect on the technological innovation capability. Second, technological innovation capability has a significant influence on the international performance. Third, technological innovation capability mediated the relationship between relational capital and international performance. Finally, alliance proactiveness was found to moderate the relationship between technological innovation capability and international performance. The key research findings imply that relational capital and alliance proactiveness are the key factors of international performance, as they improved the development of the technological innovation capability.

scholarly journals Innovative CRM and Performance of SMEs: The Moderating Role of Relational Capital

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 155
Author(s):  
Nagwan AlQershi ◽  
Sany Sanuri Mohd Mokhtar ◽  
Zakaria Bin Abas
Keyword(s):  
Structural Equation ◽  
Small And Medium Enterprises ◽  
Critical Role ◽  
Customer Relationship ◽  
Relational Capital ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Medium Enterprises ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Key Customer

Customer Relationship Management (CRM) is more than an information tool and plays a critical role in small and medium enterprises (SMEs). The present study explored the moderating effect of relational capital (RC) on the relationship between CRM dimensions and the performance of 284 Yemeni manufacturing SMEs. Partial Least Squares-Structural Equation Modelling (PLS-SEM) was used to test the study’s hypotheses. Results indicate that only three of the CRM dimensions have a significant effect on performance. The moderating effects of relational capital on this relationship were also examined and were found to be significant for only two CRM dimensions: technology-based CRM and CRM organization. Key customer focus and CRM knowledge management had no effect. The findings of this study offer important insights for owners and managers of SMEs, researchers, and policymakers to further understand the effects of relational capital and CRM on SMEs’ performance. SMEs should be encouraged to develop their CRM and relational capital to improve their performance.

THE IMPACT OF INNOVATION ON SMALL AND MEDIUM ENTERPRISES GROWTH

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-6
Author(s):  
Mohammed Zannah ◽  
◽  
Fauziah Mahat ◽  
Jibrin Geidam ◽  
Umar Malum ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Technological Innovation ◽  
Small And Medium Enterprises ◽  
Business Organisation ◽  
Creative Thought ◽  
The Government ◽  
Medium Enterprises ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Structured Questionnaire

The role of Innovation on small and medium enterprises (SMEs) growth is inevitable in any form of business organisation. Innovation has to do with a new idea, creative thought, and new imaginations of device of production of new product to add value to its customer. Innovation save as rebirth of product and reintroduce product in new look. This study have assess the impact of investment and technological innovation in growth of SMEs in Yobe State Nigeria. Structured questionnaire were used to gather the data, random sampling method were also adopted in surveying the 150 number of respondent. The finding shows significant relationship between innovation of product and production device and small and medium Growth, the result shows there is a relationship and the relationship is medium and positive. Moreover therefore there is impact of both investment and technological innovation on small and medium enterprises Growth The innovation has highly increase the growth of the enterprises. The study also recommend the government to consider and increase funds being allocated to grow the SMEs to make more innovations.

scholarly journals Transformational Leadership, Knowledge Sharing and Innovation Capability: An Empirical Study from Lao Firms

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Transformational Leadership ◽  
Knowledge Sharing ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Organizational Innovation ◽  
Small And Medium Enterprises ◽  
Transformational Leaders ◽  
Innovation Capability ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
Medium Enterprises ◽  
The Relationship

The purpose of this paper is to examine the effects of transformational leadership and knowledge sharing on innovation capability in term of individual and organizational innovation capability. This study used Structural equation modelling (SEM) to check proposal hypotheses using empirical data collected from 216 participants at 45 small and medium enterprises in Laos. The research findings revealed that knowledge sharing mediates the relationship between transformational leadership and innovation capabilities. Notably, the findings highlight the greater influence of TL on organizational innovation capability in comparison with its effect on individual innovation capability. In contrasts, knowledge sharing activities induce greater influence on individual innovation capability compared with its effect on organizational innovation capability. The paper has, therefore, significantly advanced our insights of how transformational leaders foster employee knowledge sharing activities for stimulating innovation capabilities of organizations. Keywords: Transformational Leadership; Knowledge Sharing; Individual Innovation Capability; Organizational Innovation Capability

Open and closed knowledge sourcing

2017 ◽  
Vol 117 (6) ◽  
pp. 1166-1184 ◽  
Author(s):  
Juyeon Ham ◽  
Byounggu Choi ◽  
Jae-Nam Lee
Keyword(s):  
Open Innovation ◽  
Small And Medium Enterprises ◽  
Innovation Performance ◽  
Knowledge Sourcing ◽  
Content Type ◽  
External Knowledge ◽  
Negative Effect ◽  
Medium Enterprises ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Internal Knowledge

Purpose Many studies have investigated the relationship between the adoption of open innovation and performance in large firms. However, limited research is available with regard to the use of open innovation in small and medium enterprises (SMEs). SMEs are important because of their contribution to innovation in almost all economies. The purpose of this paper is to extend the current literature by focusing on SMEs. Using complementarity and knowledge-based theories, this study develops three hypotheses to identify the effect of knowledge sourcing approaches for innovation on SMEs’ innovation performance. Design/methodology/approach Surveys collected from 196 SMEs in Korea were analyzed using the supermodularity function to test the hypotheses. Findings Results indicate that an external knowledge-oriented approach has no significant effect, whereas an internal knowledge-oriented (i.e. closed) approach has a positive effect on innovation performance. Interestingly, this study found that open innovation has a negative effect on SMEs’ innovation performance (i.e. both internal knowledge-oriented and external knowledge-oriented approaches have a substitutive relationship). Originality/value This study sheds new light on open innovation and knowledge management research by identifying the relationship between knowledge sourcing approaches for innovation, and innovation performance in SMEs. Practical implications highlight that open innovation could impede SMEs’ innovation performance.

scholarly journals BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT, INNOVATION CAPABILITY AND BUSINESS PERFORMANCE: EMPIRICAL STUDY OF JAKARTA’S FLOUR BASED FOOD SMEs

2009 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
V. Rachmadi Parmono ◽  
Y. Eko Widodo
Keyword(s):  
Business Performance ◽  
Government Regulation ◽  
Small And Medium Enterprises ◽  
Business Environment ◽  
Innovation Capability ◽  
Managerial Implication ◽  
Product And Process Innovation ◽  
Product And Process ◽  
Medium Enterprises ◽  
The Relationship

This study is concerned on the relationship between innovation capability and business performance in small and medium enterprises context. The existing studies generally have analyzed the issues pertaining of innovation capability in large business or knowledge intensive firm context. By researching of the innovation capability of small and medium enterprises (SME’s), it will review innovation capability in a broader and novel context. The SME’s operate in a competitive environment and are not very advanced technologically. This research proposes statistical hypotheses to study these based on data samples. By employing path analysis, This research test the relationship between innovation categories and business performance. The result of our study show that government regulation directly affects to innovation capability, product and process innovation capability directly affect business performance in SME’s. Finally, managerial implication will be discussed.

WHAT MATTERS MOST FOR INNOVATION CAPABILITY OF SMES: STRUCTURAL OR COGNITIVE FEATURES OF NETWORKING?

2019 ◽  
Vol 23 (07) ◽  
pp. 1950063
Author(s):  
TAREK BEL HADJ ◽  
ADEL GHODBANE
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Management ◽  
Business Model ◽  
Small And Medium Enterprises ◽  
Structural Features ◽  
Innovation Capability ◽  
North African ◽  
Medium Enterprises ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
What Matters

Our paper aims to analyse the effects of the networking of the entrepreneur on the innovation capability of Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs). For this purpose, we examine the mediation of the knowledge management in our business model in the relationship between structural and cognitive features of networking and innovation capability. Our results show, in the specific case of 124 entrepreneurs in North African SMEs, that the networking is concretised by innovation capability in the presence of a partial mediation of the knowledge management for cognitive features, and a full mediation for structural features. The originality of research lies in the formulation of networking-based entrepreneurship model in which the reinforcement of innovation capability of SME is conditioned by knowledge management, which is facilitated by structural and cognitive features of networking.

Relational Capital and Manufacturing Capability: The Role of Knowledge Transfer in Small and Medium Enterprises Manufacturing Sector

2021 ◽  
Vol 39 (10) ◽  
Author(s):  
Theresa C.F Ho ◽  
Poh-Chuin Teo ◽  
Noor Hazlina Ahmad ◽  
T. Ramayah ◽  
Lo May Chiun
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Transfer ◽  
Small And Medium Enterprises ◽  
Manufacturing Sector ◽  
Total Sample ◽  
Relational Capital ◽  
Competitive Capabilities ◽  
Medium Enterprises ◽  
Competitive Pricing ◽  
The Relationship

Knowledge transfer is a vital component in the growth and advancement of any industry. Manufacturing SMEs, who played a major role in a nation’s economy, relied heavily on relational capital need to capitalise on this resource to further enhance their competitiveness. One of the proposed methods is through knowledge transfer. Hence, this study endeavors to analyse the relationship between relational capital and knowledge transfer, and the role of knowledge transfer as the mediator between relational capital and competitive capabilities in the area of competitive pricing and quality. This study proposes that firms that promote knowledge transfer in their organisations will have improved competitive capabilities than firms that do not. Using the result from a total sample of 145 manufacturing SMEs survey showed that the relationship between a firm’s relational capital has a positive and significant relationship with knowledge transfer.  Also, the study found that knowledge transfer played the role of mediator between relational capital and competitive capabilities in relation to the quality, but not for competitive pricing.

scholarly journals Managers’ Open Innovation and Business Performance in SMEs: A Moderated Mediation Model of Job Crafting and Gender

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 89 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fouzia Hadi Ali ◽  
Muhammad Ali ◽  
Sania Zahra Malik ◽  
Muhammad Ali Hamza ◽  
Hafiz Fawad Ali
Keyword(s):  
Open Innovation ◽  
Business Performance ◽  
Service Sector ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Small And Medium Enterprises ◽  
Simple Random Sampling ◽  
Job Crafting ◽  
Moderated Mediation Model ◽  
Medium Enterprises ◽  
The Relationship

There is growing acceptability in redesigning jobs to achieve goals and objectives nowadays. Employees who indulge in exploiting and exploring opportunities for the business tend to craft their jobs, which can help to enhance business performance. This study aims to examine that how ambidextrous managers in small and medium enterprises (SMEs) craft their tasks as a strategy for open innovation to enhance business performance. This study also attempts to assess the moderating role of gender in evaluating the relationship. Simple random sampling is used to administer a structured questionnaire to 650 operations managers employed in service-sector SMEs. The findings reveal that, when male managers involve in explorative and exploitative activities, they tend to craft their jobs more as compared to females. In turn, when jobs are redesigned, it brings a positive impact on business performance as perceived by the managers. The study provides implications for the policy makers with regard to device measures to enhance the job crafting capacity of managers with specific attention to female managers in the case of small and medium enterprises. The present study provides a novel explanation of the relationship between manager ambidextrous behavior and business performance through the mediation of job crafting among top managers working in small and medium organizations, with an overarching view of gender.

Structural Modeling of Institute of Entrepreneurship in Russia

2019 ◽  
pp. 34-48
Author(s):  
Svetlana L. Sazanova
Keyword(s):  
Global Economy ◽  
Structural Model ◽  
Institutional Environment ◽  
Small And Medium Enterprises ◽  
Structural Modeling ◽  
Entrepreneurial Activity ◽  
Pattern Modeling ◽  
Medium Enterprises ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship

Entrepreneurship plays an important role in the modern global economy; the share of products of small and medium enterprises in the gross product and exports not only of the developed but also of developing countries is growing. Innovation processes cover all sectors of the economy, and more and more people are involved in entrepreneurial activity, which contributes to the penetration of entrepreneurial thinking and business values in all areas of the socioeconomic life of society. The Institute of Entrepreneurship plays an increasingly prominent role in the institutional environment of socio-economic systems. This actualizes the problem of studying the relationship of the institution of entrepreneurship with the institutions of law, culture, management. This requires a methodology that allows you to explore the impact on the institute of entrepreneurship not only economic, but also non-economic factors. The methodology of the “old” institutionalism possesses such a tool, it is structural modeling (pattern modeling), which allows to explore the diversity of interrelationships of the institution of entrepreneurship with other components of the institutional and economic environment. The article explored the features of the development of the institution of entrepreneurship in Russia, established the relationship between the institution of entrepreneurship, values, motives and incentives for entrepreneurial activity, built a structural model of the institution of entrepreneurship based on the methodology of the old institutionalism (pattern modeling). The structural model of the institution of entrepreneurship reveals the relationship between the institution of entrepreneurship, the values of entrepreneurial activity, its motives and incentives; as well as the relationship between the institution of entrepreneurship with the institutions of governance, cultural and religious institutions, legal institutions and society.

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