Impact of Innovation Culture, Organization Size and Technological Capability on the Performance of SMEs: The Case of China

Guo-xiang, Tang; Park, Kwangtae; Agarwal, Alekh; Feng, Liu

doi:10.3390/su12041355

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“…Regarding the sector of SMEs and their innovativeness, manufacturing firms are more innovative than service firms. These findings are consistent with the results of the studies of Coen Rigtering et al (2014) and Tang et al (2020). Operating in international markets might be a reason to explain the differences between the innovativeness of manufacturing and service firms because, according to Kathuria et al (2008), firms in the manufacturing industry operate in international markets, make more exports, and go more globally comparing with service firms.…”

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“…Thus, performing innovative actions for firms in the service industry is more effortless than manufacturing firms that need more resource commitments to make innovative actions. In this regard, service firms' more straightforward innovations affect their innovation culture and positively affect these businesses' performance (Tang, 2020). Significant role in this process is also attributed to the role of motivation and ability to retain skilled employees Smolarek & Sułkowski, 2020).…”

Section: Literature Review and Hypothesis Developmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

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How innovativeness of family-owned SMEs differ depending on their characteristics?

Civelek

Ključnikov

Fialová

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Research background: SMEs encounter more survival impediments than larger businesses. Innovativeness is a crucial attribute for smaller firms to overcome these barriers since it positively influences their performance, competitiveness, and capability to operate in the long term. However, depending on firm characteristics, the innovativeness of SMEs might differ. Purpose of the article: This research investigates whether the innovativeness of family-owned SMEs differs depending on their size, sector, area of activity, and succession on the sample of 350 family-owned SMEs that operate in Czechia. Methods: The data collected in the Czech Republic in 2020 through the structured self-administered questionnaire were analyzed using Skewness-Kurtosis and Levene's normality tests and Independent Sample T-test to find the differences in SMEs innovativeness depending on their selected characteristics. Findings & value added: According to the results, SMEs' innovativeness differs depending on their size, industry, and area activity. On the other hand, the analyses confirmed the nonexistence of the differences in SMEs' innovative-ness concerning succession involvement. The region of SMEs' operation, the scope of their activities, and firms' executives' age might be crucial arguments to explain the differences and similarities in these enterprises' innovativeness. Even though the research focuses only on the SMEs located in Czechia, the similarity of the issues all SMEs face when competing with the larger firms worldwide, especially if we take into consideration the countries with a similar level of development and overall institutional business conditions, allows for generalizing our results and might draw readers' attention to this paper. Policymakers, universities, international institutions, and financial institutions might cooperate to create industrial zones, encourage research centers, and provide education and financial support to stimulate SMEs' innovative activities.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 89%

Section: Literature Review and Hypothesis Developmentmentioning

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How innovativeness of family-owned SMEs differ depending on their characteristics?

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Ključnikov

Fialová

et al. 2021

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“…Thus, strengthening the capacity of human resources and the use of technology will have an impact on increasing the productivity, business diversification, and business sustainability of SMEs. Technology capability has a positive and statistically significant relationship with company performance in the manufacturing industry, but not in the service industry, whereas innovation culture has a positive and statistically significant relationship with firm performance in the service, but not the manufacturing industry [61,62].…”

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Economic Business Sustainability and Strengthening Human Resource Capacity Based on Increasing the Productivity of Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in Makassar City, Indonesia

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Surya

Perwira³

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The dynamics of urban development coupled with economic growth have contributed positively to the development of small and medium enterprises (SMEs). Optimizing the utilization and strengthening of the capacity of SMEs’ human resources will encourage increased productivity of economic enterprises and the sustainability of small and medium enterprises (SMEs). This study aims to analyze (1) strengthening the capacity of human resources (HR) of small and medium enterprises to work as a determinant of increasing the productivity of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) and labor absorption; (2) the effect of strengthening the capacity of human resources (HR), business productivity, technology utilization, and business diversification on the sustainability of small and medium enterprises (SMEs); and (3) optimizing the role of government in supporting business development, increasing productivity, business stability and sustainability of small and medium enterprises (SMEs). This study uses a sequential explanatory design approach. Data were obtained through observation, in-depth interviews, surveys, and documentation. Qualitative analysis in this study was carried out through a process of data reduction, data presentation, and conclusion drawing, while the quantitative analysis in this study uses quantitative descriptive analysis, correlation, and multiple regression. The results showed that strengthening the capacity of human resources, coupled with the use of technology, and followed by diversification of business, had a positive contribution to increasing the productivity of small and medium enterprises (SMEs). Furthermore, strengthening human resource capacity, business productivity, technology utilization, and business diversification simultaneously have a positive and significant correlation to the sustainability of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) with a determination coefficient of 72.3%. This study recommends that government policy support through strengthening human resource capacity, increasing business productivity, technology utilization, and business diversification have an impact on the sustainability of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in Makassar City, Indonesia.

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“…With fewer people, the number of decision-makers is declining, and everything depends on a certain level of knowledge of the head of the company [5]. Small businesses have fewer financial resources [6]. Factors influencing the views of businesses in ICT deployment are summarised in Table II.…”

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Cloud Strategy Development for Medium and Small Business

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Pirta-Dreimane

Romānovs

2020

ITMS

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The authors, within the present research, aim at making more extensive use of ICT by developing a cloud service strategy that will contribute to the dissemination of knowledge and help in deployment. Companies will be able to assess their readiness to implement cloud services, explore the approaches, benefits and disadvantages of cloud services. Cloud services are a solution to most SMEs, regardless of size, activity or existing ICT infrastructure. Smaller companies can implement SaaS-type solutions, but companies with advanced ICT infrastructure can focus on IaaS and PaaS-type solutions.

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Impact of Innovation Culture, Organization Size and Technological Capability on the Performance of SMEs: The Case of China

Cited by 48 publications

References 54 publications

How innovativeness of family-owned SMEs differ depending on their characteristics?

How innovativeness of family-owned SMEs differ depending on their characteristics?

Economic Business Sustainability and Strengthening Human Resource Capacity Based on Increasing the Productivity of Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in Makassar City, Indonesia

Cloud Strategy Development for Medium and Small Business

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