Purpose: The purpose of this study was to review the theoretical approach toward entrepreneurial orientation; examine the impact of entrepreneurial orientation on firm performance and explore the key entrepreneurial orientation dimensions from a Strategic Perspective.Design/methodology/approach: The study approach is qualitative, and it is based on the study of entrepreneurial orientation and business performance literature from Scopus and Google Scholar. An overview of the entrepreneurial orientation dimensions that influences the performance of the firm. The scoping method of the literature review supported the summary of major findings. Findings: The literature review indicated that entrepreneurial orientation is essential for small and medium enterprises (SMEs) to survive and sustain their businesses. The scoping approach towards the literature study indicated there is a significant relationship between firms’ performance and the pro-activeness and innovativeness dimension of entrepreneurial orientation. Research limitations/implications: This study proposes a conceptual framework that can be tested in the future by conducting empirical data either by using quantitative, qualitative, or mixed research methods. Social Implications: This article may enable SMEs, academicians, researchers as well as entrepreneurial development policymakers to understand that factors like the innovativeness and pro-activeness dimensions of entrepreneurial orientation have a significant impact on firms’ performance. Originality / Value: This study contributes by demonstrating the present knowledge on dimensions of entrepreneurial orientation and its relationship with firms’ performance. Moreover, this research may serve as a pathway for future empirical study. Keywords: Entrepreneurial Orientations, Firm Performance, Pro-activeness, Innovativeness, Scoping Approach.
Contemporary HR entails the use, and the combination of modified HR practices and functions to ensure the integration of individual trust with organizational trust leading to accumulating and harnessing employee commitment, identification, and spirit of collectivism that are necessary for the achievement of organizational outcomes. Intensified discussions about the ever-increasing role HR practitioners have to play in harnessing, the inherent, capital in human social interactions provided the stimulus and inspiration for this research paper. More so, as contemporary HR, requires the bringing forth of a highly engaged organization workforce, sustainably. This paper approaches its aim in three strands: first, the paper explores the, hitherto unknown, symbiotic relationship that exists between business analytics (BA), organisational social capital (OSC), employee engagement (EE) and high performing employees (HPE). Secondly, it examines the causal role of BA in organisations social capital building (OSCB) initiatives; the multiplier effect of OSCB on EE and consequently high performing employees. Thirdly, this paper, theoretically, identified the specific area of BA that has a direct impact on OSCB, EE, and HPE, and suggest practical implications of how BA can enhance organisation performance via OSCB and EE. The paper employs literature-based analyses, and from these conceptual, theoretical and practical arguments are established.
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