Profiles of innovators in a semi-arid smallholder agricultural environment in south west Zimbabwe

Mutsvangwa-Sammie, Eness P.; Manzungu, Emmanuel; Siziba, Shephard

doi:10.1016/j.pce.2016.09.002

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“…These indicators include having the authenticity of ideas, thinking critically, having a broad perspective, being able to utilize resources optimally, having high enthusiasm, having a high work ethic, being brave to take risks, and visionary. This finding is similar to previous studies that revealed that education, resources, social networking, gender, and enthusiasm were identified as essential attributes of an innovator (Mutsvangwa-Sammie et al, 2017). Innovative competency indicators need to be included in the education and training curriculum both in industry and in the education world.…”

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Validation of a Questionnaire to Evaluate the Hotel Employee Innovation Competency: Confirmatory Factor Analysis

Rosyiana

Suhariadi

Handoyo

et al. 2020

JEHCP

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The development and growth of the hotel business in Indonesia are increasingly rapid, along with the development of the tourism industry. One of the competencies that are needed in facing business competition is innovative competency. Although there have been many studies discussing the importance of mastering innovative competencies, there are still limited instruments for measuring the innovative competencies of hospitality employees. The purpose of this study is to develop an innovative competency measurement instrument for hospitality employees. The development of an innovation competency instrument for hotel marketing employees consists of three indicators, namely individual, interpersonal, and social network conditions. Data collection involved 143 hospitality marketing employees. Data analysis to test the validity of this innovative competency questionnaire uses the Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA). The study results revealed that the questionnaire was valid with the following criteria: RMSEA 0.094 (moderate), RMR = 0.037 (fit), Comparative Fit Index (CFI) = 0.901 (fit), Tucker-Lewis Index (TLI) = 0.891 (moderate), and NFI = 0.837 (moderate). These results indicate that an indication of a good fit or an innovative competency construct model in this study is declared fit so that it can be used to identify the innovative competencies of Sales Marketing employees in hospitality.

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Validation of a Questionnaire to Evaluate the Hotel Employee Innovation Competency: Confirmatory Factor Analysis

Rosyiana

Suhariadi

Handoyo

et al. 2020

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“…Innovations are considered a critical player in the agriculture sector in the development of the country's economic growth (Esparcia, 2013). They are seen to bring about productivity, competitiveness, quality, and efficiency to farm agrienterprises (Mutsvangwa-Sammie et al, 2017). (Distanont & Khongmalai, 2018) also added that innovation is key to increasing the capacity and creating a competitive advantage for small scale agriprenuers since they enable them to present a new or improved product to the market thus increasing their market share.…”

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Effects of Production and Market Innovations on the Level of Competitiveness of Sorghum Small Scale Agrienterprises

Judith¹,

Gathungu²,

Ayuya³

et al. 2021

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Agricultural innovations are keys to economic growth, income stability as well as nutritional enhancement particularly in marginal areas since they are well-adapted to poor or unpredictable agro-ecological conditions. Innovation is a critical player that is seen to bring competitiveness, increase productivity and efficiency to agrienterprises. Despite that, there is limited empirical evidence on whether the uptake of the innovations has on sorghum competitiveness in small scale farm level agriprenuers in most ASALs of Eastern Kenya. This study examines the effect of production and market innovation on the competitiveness of sorghum agriprenuers, using primary data collected in 2019 from a total of 384 randomly selected small scale agrienterprises. A multivalued treatment effect model was applied to determine the role of innovation on the competitiveness of sorghum enterprises. Farm productivity and gross margin analysis were used to measure the competitiveness of the agrientreprises. The results indicated that gross margin and farm productivity of sorghum agrienterprises increase with an increase in the number of innovations used. These innovations include the uses of improved sorghum seeds, conservation agriculture, and group marketing. But also, there was a decrease in both gross margin and productivity for the agrienterprises with the highest number of innovations in the farm at saturation level. The results implied that the kind and the number of innovations employed in agrienterprises development are critical in its profitability and productivity. Therefore, interventions targeting usage of innovations in sorghum agrienterprises should be sensitized to integrate different innovations on product, process, and market in enhancing competitiveness.

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Integrated water resources management and infrastructure planning for water security in Southern Africa

Mapani

Magole

Makurira

et al. 2017

Physics and Chemistry of the Earth, Parts A/B/C

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Profiles of innovators in a semi-arid smallholder agricultural environment in south west Zimbabwe

Cited by 4 publications

References 35 publications

Validation of a Questionnaire to Evaluate the Hotel Employee Innovation Competency: Confirmatory Factor Analysis

Validation of a Questionnaire to Evaluate the Hotel Employee Innovation Competency: Confirmatory Factor Analysis

Effects of Production and Market Innovations on the Level of Competitiveness of Sorghum Small Scale Agrienterprises

Integrated water resources management and infrastructure planning for water security in Southern Africa

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