Current Practices, and Perceived Innovation Enablers and Barriers: The Role of Workers’ Competences. An Exploratory Field Study in a Knowledge-Intensive Firm in Thailand

Depeige, Audrey; Sindakis, Stavros

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“…A gap has persistently existed because of the inconsistent agreement on what specific competencies could be significant to the innovation creation and performance of the social enterprise. The concept of competencies is important for the social enterprises, as it reflects the potential of assimilating information, creating knowledge, developing capabilities and bringing novelties to the innovation process of the enterprise (Depeige and Sindakis, 2015; Heerabin, 2020).…”

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“…In general, there are a few studies that focus on the investigation of the relationship between entrepreneurial competencies and innovation outcomes of the enterprise in the Thai context. One example is of Depeige and Sindakis (2015), who qualitatively examined the role of individuals’ competencies in contributing to the innovation outputs of a knowledge-intensive firm in Thailand, where it discovered that creativity and innovativeness, organising ability, technological and practical competencies were found to be significant to the firm’s innovation outputs.…”

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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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confidence: 99%

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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Entrepreneurial Competencies, Innovation Enablers and Sustainable Competitive Advantage Among Micro Firms Across Cultures: A Comparative Study of Canada and Malaysia

Tehseen,

Yee,

Haider

et al. 2024

J. Ind. Intg. Mgmt.

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Recent research on start-up businesses has drawn attention to the central importance of sustainable competitive advantage (SCA) by accelerating the continuous development of entrepreneurial competencies (EC) through bridging the mediating and moderating peer relationships for entrepreneurial success. Such peer relationships among innovation enablers (IE), government support (GS) and competitive intelligence awareness (CIA) are vital in connecting EC to achieve SCA. However, prior studies scantily emphasized the causal linkages between two different contexts, particularly Canada and Malaysia. This study unpacks the black box of peer relationships contributing to EC and sustainable growth. We espoused a deductive approach with a quantitative methodology using SPSS AMOS version 22 for measurements to address the gaps in the entrepreneurship literature. The dataset comprises 750 respondents from micro-sized wholesale, retail and service firms with 1–3 employees, evenly split between Malaysia and Canada. The empirical sample results show that for Canadian entrepreneurs, the direct effect of EC has a positive and significant influence on SCA, but is negatively and significantly associated in the Malaysian context. Moreover, the CIA had a positive and significant moderating effect on the relationship between EC and IE in both Canadian and Malaysian samples. However, the CIA moderating effect on the relationship between EC and SCA is only positive and significant in the Canadian sample and insignificant in the Malaysian context. Lastly, the moderating effect of GS on the relationship between EC and SCA is positive and significant in the Canadian sample and insignificant in the Malaysian sample. These findings also offer practical clarity to the puzzle of how some EC can become the cornerstone of these firms’ sustainable growth by adopting IE in conjunction with CIA and GS.

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Current Practices, and Perceived Innovation Enablers and Barriers: The Role of Workers’ Competences. An Exploratory Field Study in a Knowledge-Intensive Firm in Thailand

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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

Entrepreneurial Competencies, Innovation Enablers and Sustainable Competitive Advantage Among Micro Firms Across Cultures: A Comparative Study of Canada and Malaysia

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