How Relational Capabilities Matter? Organizational Context and Performance of Internationally Oriented SMEs

Ciszewska-Mlinarič, Mariola; Obłój, Krzysztof; Mlinarič, Franjo

doi:10.18267/j.cebr.28

Cited by 10 publications

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“…The opinion that is gaining importance in the literature states that the intra-industry competition transits towards category/arena-based competition with new business models fulfilling atypical customer needs (Davenport et al, 2006;McGrath, 2013). Companies thus require new capabilities enabling them to manage disruptive value innovation for survival and prosper in a dynamically changing environment (e.g., Ciszewska-Mlinaric et al, 2013). Such an approach for shaping a strategy comes down to recognizing a market space not yet addressed by competitors and creating its own "strategic area of competition," which results in adopting new forms of a focus or differentiation strategy, known from classic works of Porter (1980Porter ( , 1985.…”

Section: Implications For Strategymentioning

confidence: 99%

How Creating Shared Value Differs From Corporate Social Responsibility

Wójcik¹

2016

JMBACE

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Purpose: This study attempts to make a contribution to theory by disentangling the concept of creating shared value (CSV) from corporate social responsibility (CSR). In doing so, the study provides a preliminary outline for CSV analysis.Approach: This study is conceptual in character. It is based on a review of literature on CSR and CSV and adopts the perspective of economic and social value creation. Findings:The findings show that 1) CSR comes down to sharing the economic value created in order to build social value and 2) CSV is the process of change of the relation between a firm's outcomes and inputs that generates social value. In other words, it comes down to economic value creation through crea ting social value.Originality: This study provides arguments revealing that understanding the differences between the notions of CSV and CSR, reqnires adopting the concepts of economic and social value. The study therefore bridges the gap in theory in this respect and outlines a preliminary conceptual basis for CSV analysis. It is expected that the findings of this study will serve as a reliable basis for further discussion and CSV concept development.

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Section: Implications For Strategymentioning

confidence: 99%

How Creating Shared Value Differs From Corporate Social Responsibility

Wójcik¹

2016

JMBACE

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“…Relational capital is a kind of intangible asset that represents "the portion of a company's market value that is attributable to its portfolios of business relationships" and its valuation is an important research topic (Léger, 2010, p. 406). It was confirmed in the literature that relational capital has a positive influence on the firms' and supply chain's performance (Ciszewska-Mlinarič et al, 2012;Johnson et al, 2013). On the other hand, Villena et al (2011) identified the paradox that relational capital can improve as well as hurt performance.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 80%

An Exploration of the Measurement of Relational Capital in Supply Chains

Ocicka

Wieteska

2019

OSCM: An Int. Journal

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The aim of the paper is to identify and systemise dimensions and measures that can be used to evaluate buyersupplier relational capital (RC). The authors used a literature review methodology composed of the following phases: question formulation, keyword search in databases, screening and analysis of articles. As a result, 44 articles were selected and finally analysed in detail. It was found that several theories can help to explain how buyer-supplier relationships contribute to a company's value and competitive advantage. Furthermore, RC as an element of social capital deserves more investigation in a supply chain management context. Accordingly, to date there has been no relevant in-depth studies exploring the measurement of relational capital in supply chains. On the base of the review of research articles published between 2004 and 2018, the list of items used by researchers to measure the relational capital was explored. Then, authors proposed a construct for relational capital consisting of 5 items such as: trust, close interaction, respect, reciprocity and commitment, that were shortly discussed. Taking them all into account, an authorial definition of supply chain relational capital was proposed. Although, the final results contribute to the study of RC measurement within buyer-supplier relationships in supply chains, the analysis still has some shortcomings that need to be addressed in further literature studies and empirical research.

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“…Thus, three databases – Scopus, Google Scholar and Thomson Reuters’ Web of Science – were searched to find out whether they had published any other articles or book chapters that could be included into the analysis. As a result, 16 publications (Ciszewska-Mlinarič, 2015; Ciszewska-Mlinarič and Trapczyński, 2019a, 2019b; Ciszewska-Mlinarič et al , 2012; Ciszewska-Mlinarič et al , 2020; Lukason and Vissak, 2016; Lukason et al , 2021; Miranda García et al , 2019; Panibratov, 2016; Panibratov and Klishevich, 2020; Panibratov et al , 2022; Trapczynski, 2016b, Trąpczyński et al , 2016; Vissak, 2022a, 2022b, Wójcik and Ciszewska-Mlinarič, 2020) were added. Thus, in total, 113 publications will be analysed in the following sections.…”

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“…Ciszewska-Mlinarič (2015) chose export share as an objective measure and satisfaction with international performance as subjective measure. Ciszewska-Mlinarič et al (2012) used profitability and efficiency as objective measures and a) international marketing capability and b) product and production capability as subjective measures. Some authors have also justified the choice of multiple measures.…”

Section: Understandings Of Central and Eastern European Firms’ Intern...mentioning

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A literature review on CEE firms’ internationalization: success measurement, achievement and outcomes

Vissak

2023

RIBS

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Purpose This paper aims to give an overview of the literature on Central and Eastern European (CEE) firms’ successful internationalization: different authors’ understanding of success, and, thereafter, these firms’ internationalization processes, external factors, internal motivators and actions that affect successful internationalizers’ initial and subsequent foreign activities, and, finally, internationalization outcomes. Design/methodology/approach This is a systematic-narrative hybrid literature review paper that focuses on CEE firms’ successful internationalization. Findings This paper concludes that CEE firms’ “success” is understood and measured differently, successful internationalizers can experience various internationalization paths, they are affected by a large number of external impact factors, internal motivators or actions and their internationalization outcomes vary considerably. Thus, there is no “ideal” type of successful internationalization: as different CEE firms can be called “successful”, they also follow different trajectories to achieve success. Originality/value To the best of the author’s knowledge, this is the first literature review paper that gives an overview on how success has been defined in studies about CEE firms’ internationalization, if some types of internationalizers have been considered more successful and if there are any important CEE-specific contextual factors or not.

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How Relational Capabilities Matter? Organizational Context and Performance of Internationally Oriented SMEs

Cited by 10 publications

References 37 publications

How Creating Shared Value Differs From Corporate Social Responsibility

How Creating Shared Value Differs From Corporate Social Responsibility

An Exploration of the Measurement of Relational Capital in Supply Chains

A literature review on CEE firms’ internationalization: success measurement, achievement and outcomes

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