Exploiting Innovation in Dubai SMEs: The Effect of Strategic Orientation on Organizational Determinants

Al-Ansaari, Yahya; Pervan, Simon J; Xu, Jun

doi:10.1142/s0219877014500394

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“…In today's' business world, a company can win over its competitors if it can create marketable differences and manage to preserve them. Based on Miles and Snow typology, there are four strategic positions in which a company should consider taking: Prospector, Analyser, Defender, and Reactor [4]. Once a strategic position of the company is set, all the activities and processes should be built upon and aligned with that.…”

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Technology Development Process and Managing Uncertainties With Sustainable Competitive Advantage Approach

Tilabi¹,

Tasmin²,

Takala³

et al. 2019

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Keywords: Sustainable Competitive Advantage (SCA), SCA risk level, knowledge and technology effect, manufacture strategy index, product and process development cycle Abstract: The main purpose of this research work is to assist the decision-making process which is related to technology and knowledge factor within an organization. The data has been gathered and analysed from a particular multinational company that operates in the ceramic manufacturing industry within Malaysia. Four respondents were sought to answer the sense-and-respond questionnaire, including the part on technology sharing. The priority among technology types, including basic, core, and spearhead was decided by the maximum coefficient of the variance. The work has two main contributions: 1. It proposes and validates a tool for decisions and strategies related to technology focus in firms, and 2. expands the notion of technology types from focusing only on product development to one that focuses on both product and process development. The results of the study show that the proposed model which was previously applied in high tech start-ups and local medium-size enterprises is applicable in large industries involved in mass production.

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Section: Competitive Advantagementioning

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Technology Development Process and Managing Uncertainties With Sustainable Competitive Advantage Approach

Tilabi¹,

Tasmin²,

Takala³

et al. 2019

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“…For Al-Ansaari et al (2014), in an emerging market such as Dubai, the strategic orientation is linked to the different organizational determinants (organizational culture, technology orientation, alliance and cooperation, and market orientation) of SMEs and has consequences in terms of innovation. Their results show that prospectors put more effort than defenders into developing organizational cultures, technology orientation, alliance and cooperation, and market orientation.…”

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The Strategic Behaviour of SMEs

Yanes-Estévez

García‐Pérez

Oreja-Rodríguez

2018

Administrative Sciences

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This paper analyses the strategic behaviour of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and identifies the entrepreneurial, technological, and administrative problems of the Miles and Snow typology (1978). This typology is applied to a sample of SMEs in the Canary Islands (Spain) by using a multi-item questionnaire. Then, the Rasch Measurement Theory is applied to obtain the results, with the linear continuum as a key tool. By applying the Rasch Measurement, there is a coherency between the data treatment and the new interpretation of the Miles and Snow typology (1978), which lists 4 types that are close to trends than to pure types (for example, Sollosy 2013). There are differences between the administrative and the technological problems, with their technological approach being more prospector and their administrative one, which is more defender. This shows an almost absence of enterprises with purely defender or prospector behaviours. These results show that SMEs do not follow any comprehensive framework in order to develop their strategies. Managers should analyse their strategic situation and consider the alignment of the three problems.

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Impacts of Culture on Innovation Propensity in Small to Medium Enterprises in Construction

Lijauco¹,

Gajendran

Brewer

et al. 2020

J. Constr. Eng. Manage.

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Exploiting Innovation in Dubai SMEs: The Effect of Strategic Orientation on Organizational Determinants

Cited by 8 publications

References 90 publications

Technology Development Process and Managing Uncertainties With Sustainable Competitive Advantage Approach

Technology Development Process and Managing Uncertainties With Sustainable Competitive Advantage Approach

The Strategic Behaviour of SMEs

Impacts of Culture on Innovation Propensity in Small to Medium Enterprises in Construction

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