Corporate sustainability and enterprise performance

Bojnec, Štefan; Tomšič, Nastja

doi:10.1108/ijppm-05-2019-0226

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“…In the context of SMEs, literature depicts the linkage of economic performance with the sustainability of the enterprises [87,97]. An interesting perspective for future studies could be to downstream these findings and contextualize the sustainability of ARIs with the economic performance of SMEs being moderated by various control variables and determine the causality.…”

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Analysis of Factors Influencing Technology Transfer: A Structural Equation Modeling Based Approach

Singhai

Singh²,

Sardana

et al. 2021

Sustainability

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Technology transfer is one of the facets of academic entrepreneurship and acts as a vital element of the innovation system. It forms a sustainable link between research and business communities. A holistic model for successfully transferring technology in developing countries is an unmet need in the context of technology transfer from public-funded academic research institutions to small and medium enterprises. In this work, we developed a conceptual model and undertook an empirical study for the determinants of successful transfer. A questionnaire was prepared and administered to key stakeholders involved in technology transfer. Overall, 321 respondents participated in the survey with congener demography. The conceptualized input factors, viz. micro-level, meso-level, and macro-level factors, are significantly interrelated. The contribution of input factors towards the successful transfer of technology was extensively analyzed and tested using covariance-based structural equation modeling. The results show that the model is a good fit. The study revealed that communication, innovativeness, knowledge, quality of the product, and motivation were the five most important factors for successfully transferring technology.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Analysis of Factors Influencing Technology Transfer: A Structural Equation Modeling Based Approach

Singhai

Singh²,

Sardana

et al. 2021

Sustainability

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“…A significant number of authors advocated that ESGP and CFP interact positively (e.g. Bojnec and Tom si c, 2021;Ghouri et al, 2020;Zhang et al, 2018;Fisher and Sawczyn, 2013;Orlitzky et al, 2003;Waddock and Graves, 1997), while some papers found a negative relationship between ESGP and CFP (e.g. Amran et al, 2016;Bansal, 2005;Hillman and Keim, 2001).…”

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Interdependencies between financial and non-financial performances: a holistic and short-term analytical perspective

Cupertino

Vitale

Taticchi

2022

IJPPM

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PurposeThis paper aims to investigate possible interdependencies affecting short-term profitability between internal and process business aspects which can play a critical role in sustainability operationalisation.Design/methodology/approachThe authors adopted the panel data approach to perform a partial least square structural modelling equation analysis on a sample of 391 Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) non-financial-listed companies, considering a timeframe of five years.FindingsCorporate sustainability is a result of interplays between managerial commitment, strategy, slack resources’ exploitation, innovation, the sustainable management of internal production and procurement processes that managers can catalyse to foster short-term firms’ profitability.Research limitations/implicationsThe study is focused on internal process business determinants of sustainability, and the analysis is limited to a short-term timeframe and on non-financial OECD-listed companies.Practical implicationsManagers searching for trade-offs between financial and non-financial performances should enhance their commitment towards sustainability by defining appropriate strategies suitable to employ mainly slack resources derived from core business activities enabling innovation processes, which, in turn, are able to foster sustainability of internal production and procurement processes.Originality/valueThe execution of sustainability is a complex process that needs to be investigated using a holistic approach net of endogeneity biases to better appreciate those interrelationships within multiple drivers determining the firm sustainable growth.

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“…A growing number of studies in very different geographical settings have examined how alliances and networks of companies influence the application of sustainable practices by companies (Bojnec and Tom si c, 2021). The development of other partner relationships with sustainability objectives has also been explored, although their results have been limited and specific (Barbosa et al, 2022).…”

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The contribution of digitalisation, channel integration and sustainability to the international performance of industrial SMEs

Gardó

García²,

Cotarelo³

et al. 2022

MEQ

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PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to understand the contribution of digitalisation, channel integration and sustainability to the improvement of industrial small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs)' international performance.Design/methodology/approachBased on a review of the literature, the authors developed a research model that included six hypotheses about the relationships between the constructs studied: digitalisation, channel integration, sustainability and international performance. The structural equation model was tested with data from a survey answered by 200 exporting industrial SMEs, by means of partial least squares regression.FindingsThe digitalisation of SMEs contributes positively to channel integration and sustainability, while channel integration is positively related to their international performance. Although a direct relationship between digitalisation and international performance was not observed, a mediated relationship through channel integration was confirmed. Additionally, the multi-group analysis according to the level of internationalisation revealed that sustainability positively influences the international performance of companies with a high degree of internationalisation.Originality/valueThis study is original insofar as it examined the role of digitalisation in the international performance of industrial SMEs, considering the mediating role of sustainability and channel integration.

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Corporate sustainability and enterprise performance

Cited by 26 publications

References 47 publications

Analysis of Factors Influencing Technology Transfer: A Structural Equation Modeling Based Approach

Analysis of Factors Influencing Technology Transfer: A Structural Equation Modeling Based Approach

Interdependencies between financial and non-financial performances: a holistic and short-term analytical perspective

The contribution of digitalisation, channel integration and sustainability to the international performance of industrial SMEs

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