Designing dynamic performance management systems to foster SME competitiveness according to a sustainable development perspective: empirical evidences from a case-study

Bianchi, Carmine; Cosenz, Federico; Marinković, Milica

doi:10.1504/ijbpm.2015.066042

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“…Moreover, the integration of sustainability considerations in the design of BMfS raises its dynamic complexity considerably (Iandolo, Barile, Armenia, & Carrubbo, 2018;Rodrigues, Morioka, Pigosso, de Carvalho, & McAloone, 2016;Täuscher & Abdelkafi, 2017). In such a setting, simulation-based approaches are able to capture multilevel systems FIGURE 3 Adapted sustainable business model canvas (Bocken et al, 2018, p. 82;Bocken, 2015) [Colour figure can be viewed at wileyonlinelibrary.com] and reduce its complexity towards a proper understanding of the fundamental characteristics and relationships between the elements of BMfS, together with an adequate account of the main performance outputs and outcomes that are generated (Bianchi, Cosenz, & Marinković, 2015;Davis, Eisenhardt, & Bingham, 2007;Schwaninger & Groesser, 2008). Finally, a systemic and simulation-oriented approach allows experimentation with BMfS and the structured development of "what-if" scenarios and potential implementation strategies and trajectories (Ghosh, 2015;Nabavi, Daniell, & Najafi, 2017).…”

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Dynamic business modeling for sustainability: Exploring a system dynamics perspective to develop sustainable business models

2019

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In the last decade, business models for sustainability have gained increasing attraction by corporate sustainability scholars with international conferences and scientific journals encouraging the development of the debate on their design, use and innovation processes. Capitalizing on the basic principles, requirements, and methodological limitations found in the literature on sustainability-oriented business model design, this paper aims to conceptualize a dynamic business modeling for sustainability approach, which combines an adapted sustainable business model canvas and system dynamics modeling. To this end, the paper also illustrates the key operating principles of the proposed approach through an exemplary application to Patagonia's business model. Findings suggest that dynamic business modeling for sustainability may contribute to sustainable business model research and practice by introducing a systemic design tool, which frames environmental, social, and economic drivers of value generation into a dynamic business model causal feedback structure, thus overcoming methodological gaps of the extant business model design tools. KEYWORDSbusiness model design, business models for sustainability, dynamic business modeling, sustainability, system dynamics modeling

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Dynamic business modeling for sustainability: Exploring a system dynamics perspective to develop sustainable business models

2019

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“…A sustainable business has the important role of increasing profit and achieving the ultimate objective. Sustainable performance also has a significant role in the business of SMEs [59][60][61][62]. The present environment of changing and competitive businesses has widely stressed that measuring firm performance is vital while assessing successful organizational strategies [63].…”

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The Mediating Role of Business Strategies between Management Control Systems Package and Firms Stability: Evidence from SMEs in Malaysia

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The aim of the current study was to ascertain the influence of a management control systems (MCS) package on a firm's sustainability with the help of mediating variables such as differentiation and cost leadership strategy in Malaysian small and medium enterprises (SMEs). Data were collected from managers working in Malaysian SMEs. A total of 384 questionnaires was finally used for analysis using SmartPLS 3.8.2. Area cluster sampling was used for data collection, and seven out of sixteen clusters were selected randomly. These included Selangor, Johor, Kuala Lumpur, Sabah, Penang, Sarawak, and Perak because these seven states cover 73.9% of total SMEs. Structural equation modeling (SEM) was used to test the hypotheses. Confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) was also used to examine the reliability and validity, and structural model assessment was used to test the relationship between variables. Findings revealed that an MCS package had a positive influence on a firm's sustainability, cost leadership, and differentiation strategy. Moreover, cost leadership and differentiation strategy have a significant and positive influence on a firm's sustainability. In addition, cost leadership strategies and differentiation strategies significantly mediate between the MCS package and a firm's sustainability. This research assesses the influence of the MCS package through cost leadership and differentiation strategy on a firm's sustainability of Malaysian SMEs. It helps top management to focus on the MCS package and business strategies in attaining a firm's long-term sustainability. Finally, research recommendations discuss that the present study helps future researchers and academicians.

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“…Sanchez and Marin [32] also used a broader set of categories for the criteria of performance of SMEs: level of competitiveness, financial, and social. Bianchi et al [33] included profitability, productivity, and market criteria into their analysis, thus comprising both soft and hard criteria. Sarwoko et al demonstrated that the entrepreneurial competencies of the management, such as conceptual competency, opportunity competency, relationship competency, learning competency, and personal competency, as well as entrepreneurial characteristics of management, such as psychologic traits, experience, the influence of the family [34], and desire for business growth [35], make effects on financial performance of the firm.…”

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Eliciting Weights of Significance of Criteria for a Monitoring Model of Performance of SMEs for Successful Insolvency Administrator’s Intervention

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2019

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Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are accounted for as a major part of the economy of the EU in terms of part of the population employed, turnover, value-added, etc. Causes of insolvency of SMEs can be different; they are categorized in the paper. A considerable shift from resolving cases of bankruptcy with the sole aim to satisfy creditors’ rights to augmenting and enhancing liquidation and reorganization procedures evolved interest of the authors in creating efficient bankruptcy prediction models and, in particular, methodologies for evaluation and monitoring of the performance of SMEs. In the paper, we reviewed several initiatives and instruments created by the EU for supporting SMEs. The paper laid a foundation for creating a more comprehensive methodology for evaluation of the state of a firm undergoing the process of reorganization. A hierarchy structure of criteria for the evaluation of SMEs was used in the paper; methodologies for eliciting weights of importance of criteria from experts and gauging the level of concordance of opinions of experts were applied. Resulting weights of criteria of performance of an insolvent SME were obtained; the importance of the managerial category of criteria was revealed. Prominent features of hierarchy structures and methodology of using the structure for calculating ultimate weights were described and demonstrated. Gauging concordance of opinions of experts revealed a satisfactory level of concordance of opinions of experts; this allowed to prepare the ultimate weights of criteria for multiple criteria evaluation of SMEs for further research.

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Designing dynamic performance management systems to foster SME competitiveness according to a sustainable development perspective: empirical evidences from a case-study

Cited by 54 publications

References 54 publications

Dynamic business modeling for sustainability: Exploring a system dynamics perspective to develop sustainable business models

Dynamic business modeling for sustainability: Exploring a system dynamics perspective to develop sustainable business models

The Mediating Role of Business Strategies between Management Control Systems Package and Firms Stability: Evidence from SMEs in Malaysia

Eliciting Weights of Significance of Criteria for a Monitoring Model of Performance of SMEs for Successful Insolvency Administrator’s Intervention

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