Dimensions and their elements affecting the innovative activities of agricultural SMEs toward their sustainable development

Korauš, Antonín; Havierniková, Katarína; Gombár, Miroslav; Černák, Filip; Felcan, Miroslav

doi:10.9770/jesi.2020.8.2(68)

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“…Recently in the SME sector around the world, rapid variations can be found and they are making progress by the adaptation of the innovative approaches. Implementation of Innovation can be realised as a vital feature for the successful performance of SMEs (Korauš et al, 2020). Therefore, the competency of SMEs is to implement the innovation can be considered as a major advantage in the market.…”

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Does innovation capability improve SME performance in Malaysia? The mediating effect of technology adoption

Jalil

Ali

Kamarulzaman

2021

The International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation

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SMEs still need innovation to boost their performance in the age of globalisation and fierce market rivalry. Previous studies have identified that innovation capability is an essential driver in manufacturing industries for their survival. Yet, the featuring role of innovation capability has been considered theoretically in developed economies whereas empirical studies in emerging economies are still lacking. Therefore, the purpose of this study to examines the importance of innovation capability towards SME performance and the mediating role of technology-adoption. Structured questionnaires were used to collect the data from a sample size of 611 SMEs operating in the developing market of Malaysia. Derived hypotheses were verified through Structural Equation Modelling (SEM) using AMOS 21. The findings of the study indicated that innovation capability has a signiﬁcant positive impact on SME performance. Technology- adoption partially mediates the relationship between innovation capability and SME performance. SMEs are required to generate an operative innovation model to gain sustainable performance and competitive advantage in the Malaysian market.

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confidence: 99%

Does innovation capability improve SME performance in Malaysia? The mediating effect of technology adoption

Jalil

Ali

Kamarulzaman

2021

The International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation

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“…Porter (2008) identifies five factors affecting the competitiveness of enterprises: rivalry among competitors, bargaining power of suppliers, bargaining power of customers, threat of new entrants, and threat of substitute products or services (Keller et al, 2017). Further, the value chain contains production factors, such as land, labor, capital, and technology, and it also contains economic activities, such as purchasing, transportation, handling, distribution, and marketing (Stehel & Vochozka, 2016;Brečka and Korauš 2016;Ferdous & Ikeda, 2018;Korauš et al 2020). In the value chain, each business activity is not only a component of the process that creates value, but it is also a component used for the elimination of corporate resources that generate costs for the business entity and gives rise to cost management and pricing in accordance with the value chain (Ma et al, 2018).…”

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Riskiness of value-creating corporate activities and their influence on strategic management of engineering companies

Straková¹,

Kollmann²,

Kostiuk³

et al. 2023

JESI

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This paper presents a procedure for definition and analysis of value-creating corporate activities on an example of a selected engineering company and a newly proposed calculation of riskiness of the production process. The risk calculation is based on an analysis of the value chain or value stream of its primary activities. Three research questions were formulated within the framework of the solution concerning differentiation of the value stream in serial and custom production, significance of individual primary processes for creation of the corporate margin and differentiation of the degree of risk between serial and custom production. The obtained outputs from the model engineering enterprise showed that the intensity of added value creation is lower in serial production than in custom production. In terms of the importance of the primary activities for serial and custom production in the value chain, the production process can be considered dominant from the viewpoint of margin generation, followed by the technical preparation process. In addition to the already mentioned reduced level of generation of added value, the lower average riskiness of the production process was also found for serial production compared to custom production. The graphical presentation at the end of the paper suggests a correlation between the level of added value creation in partial production operations and their respective level of risk. The authors of the article assume that the presented results have general validity for engineering production enterprises, which will be the subject of follow-up case studies on similar topics.

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“…The concept of "logistics" in agriculture appeared not so long ago, but several specialists [3][4][5] and heads of agricultural enterprises managed to assess what effect logistics can have in optimizing costs and increasing agroindustrial efficiency complex.…”

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Genetic Stability of in vitro Propagated Grapevine (Vitis vinifera L.) cv. Al-Bayadi

Aljuaid¹,

Ismail²,

Attia³

et al. 2021

JAC

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Grapevine (Vitis vinifera L.) fruit crops are a significant source of antioxidants, fibre, and nutrients; all are vital for a healthy diet and play a key role in the economy of several advanced and developing countries. It is of great importance to generate true-to-type plant products using in vitro propagation system. Thus, somaclonal variations can multiply very rapidly which leads to loss of the main features of parent rootstocks. In this research, a mixture of three Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR)-based molecular marker methods – (conserved DNA derived polymorphism) CDDP, (Inter-simple sequence repeat) ISSR, and DNA barcoding – have been used to verify micro propagated grapevine genetic stability. Both ISSR and CDDP primer combinations produced scorable PCR fragments. The total number of bands was 98 and 109, with an average of 9.8 and 10.9 bands/primer in ISSR and CDDP assays, respectively. On the other hand, about 20 polymorphic bands were collected by CDDP primers, of CDDP-3 and CDDP-11produced 1 and 5 bands, with a polymorphism percentage of 11% and 33%, respectively. About 5 different unique PCR bands were detected in the mother plant (control) and were not observed in micro propagated plantlets (MP) samples of grapevine plant or vice versa. The phylogenetic trees were constructed using ISSR and CDDP assays diverged the control from MP samples at 1.3% and 7%, respectively. The phylogenetic tree constructed using (chloroplast gene RNA polymerase1) rpoC1 gene, multiple sequence alignment revealed that rpoC1 gene sequencing detected small genetic differences between control and MP samples of the grapevine and clustered grapevine control and MP samples to a single cluster with other Vitis species. This experiment reveals the potentiality of using CDDP, ISSR, and DNA barcoding in detecting the somaclonal variation of grapevine varieties subjected to tissue culture as a tool for plant conservation and breeding programs.

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Dimensions and their elements affecting the innovative activities of agricultural SMEs toward their sustainable development

Cited by 14 publications

References 38 publications

Does innovation capability improve SME performance in Malaysia? The mediating effect of technology adoption

Does innovation capability improve SME performance in Malaysia? The mediating effect of technology adoption

Riskiness of value-creating corporate activities and their influence on strategic management of engineering companies

Genetic Stability of in vitro Propagated Grapevine (Vitis vinifera L.) cv. Al-Bayadi

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