Learning and Innovation in Uncertain Times

2014 ◽  
pp. 209-221 ◽  
Author(s):  
Canan Katrin Akpolat ◽  
Fawzy Soliman ◽  
Jochen Schweitzer
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Uncertainty ◽  
Sustainable Growth ◽  
Uncertain Environments ◽  
Growth And Survival ◽  
Business Environments ◽  
Perceived Environmental Uncertainty

To ensure sustainable growth and survival, organisations rely on learning and innovation as vital processes and abilities. However, with increasingly unpredictable and dynamically changing business environments, it is imperative to better access and manage perceptions of uncertain environments in the context of an organisational system. In this chapter, the authors take a view at the intricacies and implications of relevant literatures and point out the yet under-researched role of perceived environmental uncertainty for learning and innovation.

scholarly journals PERCEIVED ENVIRONMENTAL UNCERTAINTY AND INNOVATION ADOPTION: EXPLORING THE TURKISH CONTEXT

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 770-789
Author(s):  
Çiğdem KAYA ◽  
Göksel ATAMAN ◽  
İbrahim H. ELBAŞI
Keyword(s):  
Multinomial Logistic Regression ◽  
Environmental Uncertainty ◽  
Innovation Adoption ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Incremental Innovation ◽  
Uncertain Environments ◽  
Multinomial Logistic Regression Analysis ◽  
Effective Factor ◽  
Perceived Environmental Uncertainty ◽  
The Relationship

Because innovation and environmental uncertainty are highly crucial concepts for organizations’ survival, and managers are key decision makers in organizational operations, investigating the relationship between innovation and environmental uncertainty from managers’ lenses is important. This study aims to explore how managers’ adoption of radical and incremental innovation is affected by perceived environmental uncertainty (PEU). Data collected from 230 managers that work for companies that operate in various industries has been analyzed by using Multinomial logistic regression analysis. Results of the study indicate that government and policies factor is the effective factor on managers’ decisions on innovation adoption, and in uncertain environments in terms of governmental and policy factor, managers choose to adopt both types of innovation since they want avoid to take risks of adopting solely one type of innovation. 

scholarly journals Does Environmental Uncertainty Affect Entrepreneurs’ Orientation and Performance? Empirical Evidence from Indonesian SMEs

2012 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Rina Herani ◽  
Otto Andersen
Keyword(s):  
Entrepreneurial Orientation ◽  
Business Performance ◽  
Small And Medium Enterprises ◽  
Critical Role ◽  
Environmental Uncertainty ◽  
Uncertain Environments ◽  
Uncertain Environment ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Medium Enterprises

Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) have a critical role in economic growth in Indonesia and become the backbone for job creation, poverty alleviation, and safeguard during the crisis. However, they are highly exposed to uncertain environments. The present study aimed to investigate the influence of SMEs’ entrepreneurial orientation on business performance when uncertain environments exist. A total of 152 Indonesian SMEs were studied in order to assess this relationship. Moderated regression analysis is performed as the main statistical procedures to analyse the moderating role of environmental uncertainty on the influence of entrepreneurial orientation on business performance. Surprisingly, the result of the present study did not confirm the previous predominant studies which found that entrepreneurialorientation dimensions are positively associated with business performance in growing in an uncertain environment. Indonesian entrepreneurs were reluctant to innovate, be proactive, and take risks when an uncertain environment exists. The present study was an endeavour to provide better insight in explaining the inconsistent and ambiguous findings from existing literature.

scholarly journals Housing and Environmental Uncertainty in Constructions of Exclusion Arising From Critical Life-Course Ruptures

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. 596-596
Author(s):  
Kieran Walsh ◽  
Anna Urbaniak ◽  
Bridin Carroll
Keyword(s):  
Life Course ◽  
Home Environment ◽  
Forced Migration ◽  
Adult Life ◽  
Environmental Uncertainty ◽  
Life Trajectories ◽  
Critical Transitions ◽  
Perceived Environmental Uncertainty ◽  
Sense Of Home

Abstract There is growing recognition that the older adult life course can involve critical transitions that function as significant sources of adversity, and ruptures in life trajectories. While knowledge about how these ruptures generate multidimensional disadvantage remains underdeveloped, less is known about how they are spatially constituted and how their processes and outcomes may be mediated by older peoples’ relationship with place. Utilizing a ‘sense of home’ as a conceptual orientation, this paper explores the role of place in social exclusion arising from life-course ruptures. Focusing on bereavement, dementia on-set and forced migration, it draws data from 45 life-course interviews. Place (e.g. home environment and the wider community) was involved in three ways: as a component of the rupture; as a life domain where people experience exclusion; and as a mediator of exclusionary processes. Circularity is observed, with perceived environmental uncertainty intensifying effects of rupture-related exclusion, further contributing to that uncertainty.

scholarly journals Innovation Capabilities and the Performance of Start-Ups in Korea: The Role of Government Support Policies

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (11) ◽  
pp. 6009
Author(s):  
Se-Kyoung Choi ◽  
Sangyun Han ◽  
Kyu-Tae Kwak
Keyword(s):  
Firm Performance ◽  
Financial Support ◽  
Political Support ◽  
Sustainable Growth ◽  
Government Support ◽  
Role Of Government ◽  
Positive Effects ◽  
Start Up ◽  
Start Ups

What kind of capacity is needed to improve the performance of start-ups? How effective are government support policies in improving start-up performance? Start-ups are critical firm group for ensuring the prospective and sustainable growth of an economy, and thus many countries’ governments have established support policies and they are likely to engage more widely in forward-looking political support activities to ensure further growth and expansion. In this paper, the effect of innovation capabilities and government support policies on start-up performance is examined. We used an unbalanced panel data analysis with a random effect generalized least squares. We investigated the effect of government support policies on 4368 Korean start-ups. The findings indicated that technology and knowledge capabilities had positive effects on the sales performance of start-ups, and government financial support positively affected the relationship between knowledge capability and firm performance. However, when government financial support increased, marketing capability was negatively associated with firm performance. These results demonstrate the significant role of government financial support, including its crowding in but also its crowding out effect. Practical implications: To be more effective, governments should employ innovation-driven entrepreneurship policy approaches to support start-ups. To improve their performance, start-ups need to increase their technology and knowledge capabilities. This study extends recent efforts to understand more fully the effect of government support policies on start-ups differing in their technology, knowledge, and marketing capabilities.

Firm Sustainable Growth during the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Role of Customer Concentration

2021 ◽  
Vol 57 (6) ◽  
pp. 1566-1577
Author(s):  
Xuesheng Chen ◽  
Caixia Liu ◽  
Feng Liu ◽  
Mingjie Fang
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Growth
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