Job design, Human Capital Resources and NPD performance: Evidence from High-Technology MNCs

Popaitoon, Sujinda

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“…The study has discovered a positive association between human capital and service innovation capability that further enhanced the business firm performance. Some other studies (Popaitoon, 2020;Saengon et al, 2020;Chat-uthai and Wanarat, 2018;Sujchapong, 2013;Rattanaphan, 2010) only briefed out the importance of human capital in the innovation development of enterprises in Thailand. With reference to this, we propose: H2.…”

Section: Human Capital and Social Innovation Developmentmentioning

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Social innovation: relationships with social and human capitals, entrepreneurial competencies and growth of social enterprises in a developing country context

Pansuwong

Photchanachan

Thechatakerng

2022

SEJ

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Purpose This study aims to examine capital and competency variables – human capital, social capital and personal entrepreneurial competencies – in relation to social innovation development and growth of social enterprises in a developing country with an emerging social enterprise sector: Thailand. Design/methodology/approach A hypothetical-deductive approach was adopted and a quantitative survey by questionnaire was applied to collect data from owners/top management of 103 social enterprises in Thailand. The data were used to test hypotheses and further analysed using partial least squares technique. Findings The results revealed that there were positive direct and indirect (mediating) relationships between human capital, social capital, personal entrepreneurial competencies and social innovation development and growth of Thai social enterprises. Skills and training were key determinants of human capital, whereas social interaction, trust, social identification and shared knowledge were key determinants of social capital which affected social innovation development. Goal orientation, information seeking, opportunity seeking, persuasion and self-confidence were key determinants of entrepreneurial competencies that also affected social innovation development. This study ultimately revealed the mediating effects of social innovation development on the relationships between capital and competency variables and the growth of social enterprises. Originality/value This study fills the research gap, from the theoretical perspective, by identifying capital and competency variables as well as their additional determinants that are divergent from previous literature, which can potentially influence the social innovation development of social enterprises, and where only limited research is evidenced. From an empirical perspective, this study attempts to investigate the associations between these variables and growth indicators in the context of social enterprises in a developing nation, where its sector is in its infancy. This study further helps to clarify the existence of the direct and indirect (mediating) effects of social innovation development in the context of the economic and social accomplishments of social enterprises.

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Section: Human Capital and Social Innovation Developmentmentioning

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Social innovation: relationships with social and human capitals, entrepreneurial competencies and growth of social enterprises in a developing country context

Pansuwong

Photchanachan

Thechatakerng

2022

SEJ

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“…For the international medical market, medical devices continue to grow due to high demand for newly invented medical device innovation that relies upon novel technology supports (OECD Science, 2011). Mehta (2008) and Mytton (2010) point out that many medical devices have a long life cycle in the market and in their development process, because the innovation process for medical devices is complex and shows discontinuance of the innovated product lines, as with other high-tech industries, such as automobiles and electronic devices (Popaitoon and Siengthai, 2014;Popaitoon, 2020). Particularly in developing countries, including Thailand, the global medical field highlights the fact that the invention of medical devices or NPD relies upon incremental changes that mostly improve existing medical devices in terms of their flexibility, accuracy and ease of use at acceptable prices (Mytton, 2010).…”

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Absorptive capacity and NPD: salient issues in bipolar entrepreneurial SMEs

Popaitoon

Yanpiboon

Tapjarern³

2021

JABS

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Purpose The purpose of this study is to explore knowledge absorptive capacity (ACAP) (both potential and realized) and new product development (NPD) in bipolar entrepreneurial small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Design/methodology/approach In response to recent calls for research on knowledge ACAP and NPD in entrepreneurial SMEs, particularly in different contexts, this research aims to answer a specific question: What are the characteristics of ACAP (both potential and realized) and the salient issues concerning working complementarily between both types of ACAP to foster NPD in bipolar entrepreneurial SMEs (in this case, three new low-tech and three established high-tech cases)? The authors conduct case study research based on cross-case and within case analyses to answer the question. Findings The findings show that, in the established high-tech cases, realized ACAP plays an outsized role in developing new products and prior-related knowledge acts as a precondition for capturing useful knowledge from external sources (potential ACAP). On the contrary, in the new low-tech cases, potential ACAP is the key driver of NPD, so external knowledge from network ties becomes a crucial source of acquiring new knowledge, along with entrepreneurs’ level of skill at applying useful knowledge (realized ACAP) to achieve NPD. Research limitations/implications On the basis of the bipolar entrepreneurial SMEs (i.e. established high-tech and new low-tech ventures), the characteristics of entrepreneurial SMEs (i.e. firm’s age, size and level of technology) affect the different roles of realized and potential ACAP in driving NPD successes. Realized ACAP plays a critical role for NPD in established high-tech SMEs, whereas potential ACAP is the main driver of NPD in new low-tech SMEs. This research has some limitations that future research should conduct quantitative research in other industries’ context as well as in other countries. Practical implications For new ventures, they should be aware that to strengthen their network ties with customers and suppliers can be an important tool for not only overcoming their limitations of existing knowledge but also acquiring tacit knowledge from the external sources. For established high-tech ventures, they should focus not only on the short-term NPD (the achievement of current NPD) but also the long-term NPD (e.g. series of new products and new strategic alliances) that can help avoid a not-invented-here syndrome situation. Social implications The government should customize the policy to suit each targeted SME. Policymakers should play a crucial role of a linking pin among key external sources (e.g. R&D national and international institutions, SME banks and marketing agents) in different stages of the business cycle. Originality/value This research contributes to the literature of knowledge ACAP in SMEs to the understanding of the distinction roles of potential and realized ACAP as a mechanism in the different natures of entrepreneurial SMEs.

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Job design, Human Capital Resources and NPD performance: Evidence from High-Technology MNCs

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Social innovation: relationships with social and human capitals, entrepreneurial competencies and growth of social enterprises in a developing country context

Social innovation: relationships with social and human capitals, entrepreneurial competencies and growth of social enterprises in a developing country context

Absorptive capacity and NPD: salient issues in bipolar entrepreneurial SMEs

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