scholarly journals A Case Study Analysis of Management Innovations in a Small and Medium Enterprise in South Africa

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 93-120
Author(s):  
M UNGERER ◽  
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D BUYS ◽  
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Key Management ◽  
Management Innovation ◽  
Exploratory Research ◽  
Stakeholder Relationships ◽  
Sustainable Performance ◽  
Small And Medium Enterprise ◽  
Medium Enterprise ◽  
Knowledge Intensive

This research aimed to explore the influence of implemented innovative managerial practices, processes, techniques and structures on the sustainable performance of a Small and Medium Enterprise (SME) in South Africa. An exploratory research method was utilised to gain insights into management innovation practices in a knowledge-intensive company as the case study organisation. Findings from this exploratory study indicated that the combination of key management innovation aspects such as leveraging collective knowledge of employees, valuing stakeholder relationships and participative decision-making processes contribute to organisational performance. The organisational community pursues a common purpose and stimulates constructive debate in and between self-managing teams, ultimately leading to an environment that supports innovation and the sustainable positive performance of the case study SME, inter alia based on the yearly growth of the net asset value (NAV) for the past ten years.

scholarly journals Rvolta, a Case for Open Innovation

2013 ◽  
pp. 1562-1579
Author(s):  
Margarida Cardoso ◽  
Isabel Ramos
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Information Systems ◽  
Waste Management ◽  
Knowledge Creation ◽  
Open Innovation ◽  
Small And Medium Enterprise ◽  
Medium Enterprise ◽  
Innovation Practices ◽  
Focus Point

Rvolta has been working in waste management industry for 16 years now. This SME (Small and Medium Enterprise) from Portugal is taken as a focus point for the case study addressing a network of partners working in various activities which became related, so as to disclose the underlying innovative spirit, strategy, and partnership structure. Objectives of the present chapter are to portray and analyze a SME success case in open innovation (through various innovation practices), and clarify how knowledge creation and collaboration amongst different players in a network takes place. An exemplary collaboration episode is told. Framing issues are addressed so as to understand how they affect open innovation in SMEs. The study finds interactions, networking, and partnership connections, are important issues and indeed make a difference, thus enabling SMEs to innovate. This case evolved from an exploratory phase of an Information Systems PhD qualitative research, addressing open and crowdsourcing innovation.

scholarly journals Understanding the Recruitment and Selection Practices of an Indian IT SME (Small and Medium Enterprise)

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 12080-12084 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Selection Process ◽  
The Other ◽  
Major Function ◽  
Small And Medium Enterprise ◽  
Medium Enterprise ◽  
Recruitment And Selection ◽  
Selection Practices

Recruitment and Selection is the major function of the HR department besides the other functions, it is the solution to not only hatch the talent for a sector or any organization that is moving with an exponential pace, but also to provide quality employees for any organization, this article is a case study about the recruitment and selection process in an Indian IT MSME. The company was already facing some issues like pending projects and subsequently other problems sprouting because of that to which the only solution,that is, resolve all these issues was Recruitment and Selection. As a matter of fact this was being followed by the company as daily chores, in-parallel with the problems. The purpose of this study was to understand each step of the process in-order to get some in-sights out of it.

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