Workplace organisation and innovation in small and medium-sized enterprises

Lorenz, Edward; Potter, Jonathan

doi:10.1787/11732c0c-en

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“…The proactiveness of entrepreneurs relates to applying Innovations. Lorenz and Potter [27] stated that learning organization or discretionary learning SMEs are characterized by high levels of self-planning of tasks by employees, teamwork, knowledge exchange with employees and supervisors, on-the-job training, and employee performance incentives. At a macro level, countries with high proportions of these SMEs have higher rates of new-to-themarket innovations among SMEs and of SME innovation collaborations with other firms and organizations.…”

Section: Theoretical Framework Of Entrepreneurshipmentioning

confidence: 99%

Determinants of the Entrepreneurial Initiative during a Pandemic: The Case of Plovdiv

2022

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The COVID-19 pandemic is a trying time for both businesses and citizens. The measures and restrictions were devastating for the economy. As different countries had their strengths and challenges in dealing with the pandemic, there no unified approach applicable to every context. However, the entrepreneurial initiative is what boosts the economic development in each free market economy. The current paper’s goal is to evaluate how the pandemic affects entrepreneurial initiatives and to determine the degree to which three sets of elements influence these initiatives. The scope of the research is enterprises, working in the city of Plovdiv, Bulgaria, and the focus is the entrepreneurial initiative among them. The research with the enterprises is based only on a quantitative method—a survey across a representative sample of the general population of the enterprises whose headquarters are registered in the territory of the city of Plovdiv. The representative sample was selected as a random sample of 1000 companies (with an assumed response rate of about 10%), stratified by the size of the enterprise (number of employees) and by the field of economic activity. Statistical analysis was performed using the software product IBM SPSS version 26. The results show that the personal characteristics of the respondents are more relevant to the results rather than the specifics of the enterprise. The relevance of both work experience and ownership of the enterprise as preconditions that create opportunities for entrepreneurial initiatives during the global crisis offers a further empirical contribution. A key theoretical contribution of this study lies in finding evidence that innovativeness has a significant direct effect on behavioral intention to acquire new opportunities during crisis conditions.

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Section: Theoretical Framework Of Entrepreneurshipmentioning

confidence: 99%

Determinants of the Entrepreneurial Initiative during a Pandemic: The Case of Plovdiv

2022

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“…According to Lorenz, E. and J. Potter (2019), the forms of workplace organization adopted by companies influence their capacity to innovate, and learning is associated with higher innovation in products, services and processes.…”

Section: Organizational Learningmentioning

confidence: 99%

E-learning for Business- from Covid-Adaptation to Usual Practice

Maerean

2021

Proceedings of the International Conference on Business Excellence

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This paper analyzes the impact of the COVID-19 epidemic on SMEs’ work environment, human resources processes, how the companies reacted and adapted, what forms of support were offered by the authorities, with a particular interest for e-learning tools and systems, that may prove to not just a temporary coping mechanism, but a functional, wide-spread approach. The scale of workforce transitions (jobs that disappeared versus jobs that opened) generated by COVID-19 on labor trends heightens the pressure for businesses and policymakers to act to support supplementary training and education programs for employees and encourages companies to address the issues related to the workforce with e-learning solutions that focus on flexibility and digitalization, as usual practice. Consequently, the paper reviews the current options of learning management systems, aiming to support managers’ decision-making process on this matter, taking into consideration infrastructure, contents, services, flexibility, and other criteria. Furthermore, the issue of implementing an e-learning project is carefully considered, in order to achieve the desired results.

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“…14 Classic studies on the core set of work practices used in a HPWS include Appelbaum et al (2000), Black and Lynch (2004) and Freeman and Kleiner (2000). For evidence on the use of high-performance work practices in the member states of the EU, see Lorenz and Potter (2019) and Holm and Lorenz (2015). 15 For the extensive cognitive testing of the questions used in the 2010 round of the EWCS designed to assure high reliability and high content validity in the sense of measuring what was intended, see https://www.eurofound.europa.eu/sites/default/files/ef_files/surveys/ewcs/2010/documents/pretest.pdf.…”

Section: Measuring Job Skillsmentioning

confidence: 99%