“…However, inefficient capabilities have constrained the business activities and performance of SMEs (Sok, Snell, Lee, & Sok, 2017), especially, in African economies where human capital, technological, collaborative and innovative capabilities upset the competitiveness and performance of the sector (Asante, Kissi, & Badu, 2018;Akeyewale, 2018;Oyelaran-Oyeyinka & Abiola Adebowale, 2012). Nevertheless, extant literatures have established that technological, relational and learning capabilities are valuable, rare, inimitable and non-substitutable resources and dynamic capabilities that enhance the sustenance of competitive advantage and performance in rapidly changing environment (Yang et al, 2018;Pham, Monkhouse, & Barnes, 2017;Ahmad, Othman, & Mad Lazim, 2014). However, these capabilities have been studies on firms from plastic industry (Chantanaphant, Nabi, & Dornberger, 2013), professional and financial services (Ulbrich & Borman, 2017;Ainin, Kamarulzaman, & Farinda, 2010), healthcare, (Salas-Vallina, López-Cabrales, Alegre, & Fernández, 2017), constructions (Manley & Chen, 2015) and aviation industry (Rajasekar & Fouts, 2009), mostly from western developed world, the USA, Latin America and Emerging Asian economies.…”