scholarly journals The Linkage Between Intangible Resources and Export Performance: the Mediating Effect of Innovation

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 399-410
Author(s):  
Orlando Lima Rua ◽  
Alexandra França
Keyword(s):  
Strategic Management ◽  
Survey Data ◽  
Export Performance ◽  
Positive Influence ◽  
Mediating Effect ◽  
Business Growth ◽  
Multiple Factors ◽  
Intangible Resources ◽  
Management Literature ◽  
The Relationship

This paper develops a framework to test the relationship between intangible resources and export performance, considering the mediating effect of innovation. Based on survey data from Portuguese small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) exporting footwear findings suggest that: (1) innovation has a direct and positive influence on export performance; and (2) innovation does have a mediating effect on the relationship between intangible resources and export performance. This study deepens our understanding and provides novel insights into strategic management literature, since it combines multiple factors and has obtained the importance of each construct in SMEs business growth.

Export Performance

2019 ◽  
pp. 269-281
Author(s):  
Orlando Lima Rua
Keyword(s):  
Strategic Management ◽  
Survey Data ◽  
Significant Influence ◽  
Textile Industry ◽  
Quantitative Research ◽  
Export Performance ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
Business Growth ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Multiple Factors

The purpose of this chapter is to analyze the influence of absorptive capabilities on export performance. The author uses a quantitative research approach by conducting a study based on a survey data from 247 Portuguese small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) from the textile industry. Findings suggest that absorptive capabilities have a positive and significant influence on export performance. This chapter presents further evidences of the strategies that SMEs managers should pursue and policy makers should promote. This study deepens our understanding and provides novel insights into strategic management literature, since it combines multiple factors and has obtained the importance of each construct in SMEs business growth.

Linking Intangible Resources and Competitive Advantage

2019 ◽  
pp. 307-319
Author(s):  
Orlando Lima Rua
Keyword(s):  
Strategic Management ◽  
Competitive Advantage ◽  
Significant Influence ◽  
Textile Industry ◽  
Quantitative Approach ◽  
Business Growth ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Cost Leadership ◽  
Multiple Factors ◽  
Intangible Resources

The purpose of this chapter is to analyze the linkage between intangible resources and competitive advantage. The author uses a quantitative approach based on a survey data from 247 Portuguese small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) from the textile industry. Findings suggest that intangible resources have a positive and significant influence on competitive advantage, either by cost leadership or differentiation. This chapter presents further evidences of the strategies that SMEs managers should pursue and policy makers should promote. This study deepens our understanding and provides novel insights into strategic management literature, since it combines multiple factors and has obtained the importance of each construct in SMEs business growth.

Predictive Strategic Factors in Export Performance in the Automotive Industry

2021 ◽  
pp. 239-260
Author(s):  
Orlando Lima Rua ◽  
Ana Ferreira
Keyword(s):  
Automotive Industry ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Export Performance ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Equation Model ◽  
Mediating Effect ◽  
Direct Impact ◽  
Intangible Resources ◽  
Strategic Factors ◽  
The Relationship

The purpose of this chapter is to analyze the linkage between intangible resources and export performance, considering the mediating effect of innovation on it. The authors have adopted a quantitative methodological approach applied to a sample of Portuguese exporting companies from the automotive industry. The application of the structural equation model is highlighted, using partial least squares (PLS). The results allow us to conclude from the existence of a positive and direct impact of intangible resources on export performance and the mediator effect of innovation in this relationship. The main contribution of this study is the mediating effect of innovation on the relationship established between intangible resources and export performance concerning companies from the automotive industry.

scholarly journals Absorptive Capabilities and Competitive Advantage: The Linkage

2019 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 164-172 ◽  
Author(s):  
Orlando Rua
Keyword(s):  
Strategic Management ◽  
Competitive Advantage ◽  
Survey Data ◽  
Small Firm ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Cost Leadership ◽  
Multiple Factors ◽  
Management Literature

The main goal of this study is to analyze the influence of absorptive capabilities on competitive advantage. Based on survey data from 247 Portuguese small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) findings suggest that: Acquisition, assimilation and exploitation’s absorptive capabilities are positively associated with cost leadership; Transformation’s absorptive capabilities are not positively associated with cost leadership; Acquisition and transformation’s absorptive capabilities are positively associated with differentiation; and Assimilation and exploitation’s absorptive capabilities are not positively associated with differentiation.This study deepens our understanding and provides novel insights into strategic management literature, since it combines multiple factors and has obtained the importance of each construct in SMEs business competitive advantage. Moreover, this paper presents further evidences of the strategies that small firm managers should pursue and policy makers should promote.

From intangible resources to export performance

2018 ◽  
Vol 28 (3/4) ◽  
pp. 373-394 ◽  
Author(s):  
Orlando Lima Rua
Keyword(s):  
Textile Industry ◽  
Quantitative Research ◽  
Export Performance ◽  
Mediating Effect ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
Direct Influence ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Intangible Resources ◽  
Tax Benefits ◽  
The Relationship

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to analyse the influence of intangible resources on export performance, considering the mediating effect of absorptive capabilities and innovation. Design/methodology/approach The authors use a quantitative research approach by conducting a quantitative study based on survey data from 247 Portuguese small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) from the textile industry. Findings Findings suggest that: Intangible resources has a positive, significant and direct influence on absorptive capabilities and on export performance; intangible resources has not a significant and direct influence on innovation and on the opposite direction absorptive capabilities has a positive, significant and direct influence on it; innovation has a positive, significant and direct influence on export performance, contrary to absorptive capabilities that has not a significant and direct influence; and innovation has a mediating effect on the relationship between intangible resources and export performance, and the same does not happens on the relationship between absorptive capabilities and export performance. Practical implications This paper presents further evidences of the strategies that textile industry’s small firm managers should pursue, and policymakers should promote within the scope of the strategies associated to the system of tax benefits under negotiation for Portugal 2030. Originality/value While previous authors have attempted to analyse certain aspects of this process (connection between intangible resources and export performance), this research developed a framework that combines these ones with the mediating effect of absorptive capabilities and innovation. This study deepens our understanding and provides novel insights into strategic management and innovation literature, since it combines multiple factors and has obtained the importance of each construct in SMEs business growth.

scholarly journals Sustainable Competitive Advantage through Entrepreneurship, Market-Oriented Culture, and Trust

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (7) ◽  
pp. 3986
Author(s):  
Jun-Chul Ha ◽  
Jun-Woo Lee ◽  
Jee Young Seong
Keyword(s):  
Work Engagement ◽  
Risk Taking ◽  
Choice Theory ◽  
Business Environment ◽  
Positive Influence ◽  
Mediating Effect ◽  
Sustainable Competitive Advantage ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Positive Effect ◽  
Significant Positive Influence

In a rapidly changing business environment, the entrepreneurship of top management is essential for the survival and sustainable development of the enterprise. Building on the view of the strategic choice theory, this study identifies the relationship between entrepreneurship, market-oriented culture, and work engagement. Data were collected from 493 employees regularly working in small and medium-sized firms in South Korea. The results of this study indicate: (1) entrepreneurship (consisting of innovation, proactiveness, and risk-taking) has a significant positive influence on market-oriented culture, (2) entrepreneurship positively affects work engagement, (3) market-oriented culture has a significant positive effect on work engagement, (4) the effects of innovation and proactiveness on work engagement are significant, controlling for market-oriented culture, showing the partial mediating effect of market-oriented culture on work engagement, and (5) CEO trust moderates the relationship between risk-taking and work engagement. Theoretical and practical implications are suggested.

Fostering Product Innovation Through Digital Transformation and Absorptive Capacity

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (06) ◽  
pp. 2050040
Author(s):  
Alejandro Coronado-Medina ◽  
Jose Arias-Pérez ◽  
Geovanny Perdomo-Charry
Keyword(s):  
Structural Equation Modeling ◽  
Survey Data ◽  
Absorptive Capacity ◽  
Product Innovation ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Digital Transformation ◽  
Mediating Effect ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
The Relationship

This paper analyzes the mediating effect of absorptive capacity (AC) on the relationship between digital transformation from e-business capabilities (EBC) perspective and product innovation (PI). Structural equation modeling (SEM) was carried out with the survey data from a sample of firms that belong mainly to highly digitalized sectors. The results indicate the existence of a full mediation, which means knowledge derived from the digital operation of the business can only result in PI if AC plays an intermediation role. Hence, this finding calls into question the idea that digitalization alone and automatically acts as a PI driver.

Job Satisfaction as a Mediator in the Relationship Between Performance Appraisal and Voice Behavior

2014 ◽  
Vol 42 (8) ◽  
pp. 1315-1323 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xu Zhang ◽  
Bei Hu ◽  
Min Qiu
Keyword(s):  
Job Satisfaction ◽  
Performance Appraisal ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Industrial Clusters ◽  
Positive Influence ◽  
Mediating Effect ◽  
High Tech ◽  
Voice Behavior ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
The Relationship

We explored the mediating effect of job satisfaction in the relationship between employees' performance appraisal and their voice behavior. A questionnaire was administered to 864 employees at enterprises representing high-tech industrial clusters from 5 cities in China. Developmental performance appraisal was found to have a more positive influence on employees' voice behavior than evaluative performance appraisal did. Compared with prohibitive voice behavior, both developmental and evaluative types of performance appraisal had a more positive impact on promotive voice behavior, and job satisfaction was found to play a mediating role in the relationship between these variables.

De relatie tussen herstel, werkdruk en slaap: een dagboekstudie

2010 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Alicia L.T. Walkowiak ◽  
Ute R. Hülsheger ◽  
Fred R.H. Zijlstra
Keyword(s):  
Sleep Quality ◽  
Positive Influence ◽  
Mediating Effect ◽  
Mediation Effect ◽  
Diary Study ◽  
Work Pressure ◽  
Negative Effect ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
High Work

The relationship between recovery, work pressure and sleep quality: A diary study The relationship between recovery, work pressure and sleep quality: A diary study Alicia L.T. Walkowiak, Ute R.Hülsheger & Fred R.H. Zijlstra, Gedrag & Organisatie, volume 23, December 2010, nr. 4, pp. 316-332. Previous research showed that the experience of high work pressure can lead to fatigue and even to health complaints on the long term. This makes it very important, especially for people who experience high work pressure, to take sufficient time to recover after work. Sleep quality has a positive influence on recovery. The aim of this diary study was to investigate whether sleep quality has a mediating effect on the relationship between work pressure and recovery. Seventy-six people took part in the study and answered questions about work, recovery and sleep for 14 days. Results showed that work pressure indeed had a negative effect on recovery and sleep quality. Furthermore, we found a partial mediation effect: sleep quality mediated the relationship between work pressure and recovery. These results stress the importance of recovery and sleep quality, especially for people who experience high work pressure.

scholarly journals The Mediating Effect of Creativity on the Relationship Between Mathematic Achievement and Programming Self-Efficacy

2022 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jun Liu ◽  
Meng Sun ◽  
Yue Dong ◽  
Fei Xu ◽  
Xue Sun ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Self Efficacy ◽  
Mathematics Learning ◽  
Positive Influence ◽  
Mediating Effect ◽  
School Students ◽  
Programming Education ◽  
And Mathematics ◽  
Math Test ◽  
Math Test Scores ◽  
The Relationship

Purpose: This study aimed to explore the relationship between mathematic achievement and programming self-efficacy, and adopt a mediation model to verify the mediating role of creativity on the relationship between mathematic achievement and programming self-efficacy.Methods: A total of 950 upper-secondary school students were surveyed using their math test scores, the Kirton Adaption-Innovation and the Programmed Self-Efficacy Scale. SPSS-26 was used for descriptive statistical analysis and correlation analysis of related variables. The PROCESS plugin was used to test the mediating effect of creativity.Results: (1) Mathematic achievement has a positive effect on programming self-efficacy, mathematic achievement is positively related to creativity, and creativity also has a positive influence on programming self-efficacy. (2) Creativity has a mediating effect on the relationship between mathematic achievement and programming self-efficacy.Conclusion: The results revealed that mathematic achievement affected programming self-efficacy directly and also indirectly through creativity. This provided certain ideas for the development of programming education for teenagers. Since students’ mathematics learning and creativity are related to programming learning, it is necessary to pay attention to the integration of the disciplines of programming education and mathematics. Further, the cultivation of innovative thinking is also critical to facilitate programming learning.

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