Immigrants and Firm Performance: Effects on Foreign Subsidiaries versus Foreign Entrepreneurs

Under the background of environmental sustainability, it is of great significance to investigate how green innovation influences firm performance dimensions in emerging economies. Explicitly, the interaction effects of absorptive capacity (AC) and managerial environmental concern (MEC) on the correlation between green innovation and firm performance dimensions must be explored. Our data were obtained through a questionnaire survey from 253 companies operating in China. Using hierarchical linear modeling (HLM), we found that (1) green innovation has a robustly positive effect on firm performance dimensions (operational, financial and environmental), and (2) absorptive capacity and managerial environmental concern can positively affect the correlation between green innovation and firm performance dimensions. Our results illustrate the integrating effects of absorptive capacity, managerial environmental concern, green innovation and firm performance dimensions.

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Where Does Privatization Work? Understanding the Heterogeneity in Estimated Firm Performance Effects

SSRN Electronic Journal ◽

10.2139/ssrn.2547819 ◽

2014 ◽

Author(s):

J. David Brown ◽

John S. Earle ◽

Almos Telegdy

Keyword(s):

Firm Performance ◽

Performance Effects

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Customer access and competitive certainty: performance effects in Swedish foreign subsidiaries

Strategic Change ◽

10.1002/jsc.825 ◽

2008 ◽

Vol 17 (5-6) ◽

pp. 179-192 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

Anders Pehrsson

Keyword(s):

Foreign Subsidiaries ◽

Performance Effects

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Firm Performance Effects of High-involvement versus High-commitment HR in the context hotel SMEs

Academy of Management Proceedings ◽

10.5465/ambpp.2017.12955abstract ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 2017 (1) ◽

pp. 12955

Author(s):

Jeffrey Arthur ◽

Andrew O. Herdman ◽

Jaewan Yang

Keyword(s):

Firm Performance ◽

High Involvement ◽

Performance Effects

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HOW DO FIRMS IN STRATEGIC SME NETWORKS BUILD COMPETITIVENESS?

Journal of Enterprising Culture ◽

10.1142/s0218495805000215 ◽

2005 ◽

Vol 13 (04) ◽

pp. 383-408 ◽

Cited By ~ 8

Author(s):

JOAKIM WINCENT

Keyword(s):

Firm Performance ◽

Path Analysis ◽

Policy And Practice ◽

Related Factors ◽

Analysis Techniques ◽

Middle Range ◽

Performance Effects ◽

Prior Literature ◽

Using Data ◽

Present Understanding

This study attempts to improve the present understanding of how firms build competitiveness in strategic SME networks. In particular, it empirically tests and identifies patterns among potentially important factors as mentioned in prior literature and suggests propositions as potential providers for middle-range theorizing. Using data from a population of 54 firms, influences of firm-related factors, partner-related factors, and inter-firm relation factors on competitive outcomes (i.e., organizational entrepreneurship, resource contributions to the network entity, and direct firm performance effects) were identified by using path analysis techniques. Findings suggest all factors are influential, but effects are seldom direct. Based on the results from path analysis and interviews with CEOs in the firms studied, a number of propositions are offered for future middle-range theorizing in this domain. Implications for policy and practice are suggested.

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Service creativity reinforcement and firm performance

Journal of Service Management ◽

10.1108/josm-02-2018-0041 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 31 (1) ◽

pp. 1-23

Author(s):

Kuen-Hung Tsai ◽

Stephen Chi-Tsun Huang

Keyword(s):

Firm Performance ◽

Regression Method ◽

Innovation Performance ◽

Outcome Variable ◽

Team Approach ◽

Service Firms ◽

Content Type ◽

Two Samples ◽

Performance Effects ◽

Innovation Intensity

Purpose Many service firms have adopted creativity reinforcement mechanisms to manage employee-based service creativity so as to pursue their performance growth. However, its impact on firm performance has rarely been investigated in the extant research. The purpose of this paper is to satisfy this knowledge gap through an examination of how service creativity reinforcement (SCR) affects a firm’s performance. Design/methodology/approach Two samples were used to test the hypotheses. The first sample included a total of 4,381 service firms and was analyzed by using a traditional moderated regression method in relation to sales growth as the outcome variable. Due to a number of missing values, the second sample was reduced to 1,481 service firms. This sample was analyzed by using a moderated fractional regression method and the outcome variable was innovation performance. Furthermore, a multi-valued treatment approach with the augmented inverse-propensity weighted estimator was adopted to assess the performance effect that was associated with each of the SCR mechanisms. Findings Statistical analyses suggested that SCR positively affected both the firm’s performance and its innovation performance. Specifically, the stronger performance effects of SCR were associated with firms that had high innovation intensity, were small service firms and were part of the knowledge-intensive business service (KIBS) sector. The results also found that brainstorming sessions, a multi-disciplinary team approach, task rotation and non-financial incentives had greater performance effects than other mechanisms, especially for firms in the KIBS sector that had high innovation intensity. In addition, the results indicated that team-level mechanisms were more effective in developing highly innovative services than were individual-level mechanisms. Originality/value This study has contributed to the service literature by developing a contingency framework for SCR. This study has also advanced service research through the presentation of contextual effects associated with each mechanism of SCR.

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