The roles of top management and users in strategic IS planning: a perspective of SMEs

This paper aims to analyse the effects of the use of digital technologies on firms’ net sales and productivity. The technology adoption approach is applied in empirical research using data from the National Enterprise Survey in Peru. Using the OLS method on a sample of 2,970 firms from creative and manufacturing industries in Peru, the effects of digital technologies on net sales and productivity are determined. Findings indicate that there is a positive relationship. However, these relationships can be different depending on the type of digital technology, the size of the firm and the manager’s gender proportion. We found that most of these technologies are more commonly related to creative industries than manufacturing firms. These relationships have greater statistical significance to net sales in large companies within both types of industry. However, SMEs have greater statistical significance with respect to productivity in both types of industries. Lastly, given the positive effect on these relationships, we conclude by highlighting the importance of managers crafting their technology portfolio and digital capabilities properly and the need for further research to determine the performance of companies in the context of developing countries.

Section: Resultssupporting

confidence: 94%

Section: Resultssupporting

confidence: 92%

Section: Other Characteristics Of the Firmmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Effects of the use of digital technologies on the performance of firms in a developing country: are there differences between creative and manufacturing industries?

Luna

Vergara

Valladares

2022

“…Our findings also relate to Cravotta and Grottke [2] who state that family firms need to prepare themselves for long-term changes brought upon them by digitalization and that those changes also affect these firms' operational activities. These changes also touch upon operational matters [109], [110] which is relevant insofar as business succession is accompanied by very hands-on issues, as demonstrated in this study's results. We find that the succession process can delay the introduction of those changes and therefore a prolonged family-external business succession demonstrates a challenge for SMFB that could impede their competitiveness.…”

Section: Discussion Of Resultssupporting

confidence: 53%

The impact of family-external business succession on digitalization: exploring management buy-ins

Pöschl

Freiling

2021

Digitalization in small- and medium-sized (SME) family firms and processes of family-external business succession within these firms are under-researched areas. As SME and their future viability are important for many economies around the world, we aim to study the effects of succession processes on those companies’ digitalization activities. Utilizing a unique data set comprising of around 340 pages of transcribed interviews within a multiple case study involving four family firms in the DACH region of Europe, we perform exploratory research of this matter. Our findings indicate that incumbent and new owner-managers focus on efficiency-related digitalization activities during succession processes. More long-term issues such as changes to business models or the exploitation of external opportunities through digitalization are underrated and postponed. Our findings contribute to both digitalization and family firm literature and we provide suggestions for future research in this regard.

“…With digitalization challenges facing various organization, it is imperative that they equip themselves with various capabilities including both technology and innovation related [69]. Extant studies have identified the existence of a positive relationship between learning and innovation in organizations [3,70,71].…”

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confidence: 99%

An examination of the preconditions of learning to facilitate innovation in digitalization projects: a project team members’ perspective

Ngereja

Hussein

2021

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