Human resource management in small to medium-sized enterprises

Raby, Simon O.; Gilman, Mark W.

doi:10.1007/978-0-230-35885-0_17

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“…Legge, 2005) and high-performance work system (HPWS) (e.g. Boxall and Purcell, 2011; Raby and Gilman, 2012) – are used to predict learning breadth. These instrumental variables have no direct effect and only indirectly influence innovation through organizational learning.…”

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The moderating role of previous venture experience on breadth of learning and innovation and the impacts on SME performance

Sinha

Saunders

Raby

et al. 2021

IJEBR

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PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to investigate the moderating role of previous venture experience on the relationship between learning breadth and innovation breadth, defined as the range of innovation types within a firm, and the impacts on SME performance.Design/methodology/approachA theoretical model was developed, and hypotheses were tested using step-wise multivariate regressions on survey data from 509 North American SME respondents.FindingsThe results demonstrate that the previous venture experience of a firm's top management plays a key role in enhancing the innovation breadth for a given level of learning breadth. There is a curvilinear relationship between innovation breadth and learning breadth, and increases in innovation breadth lead to increases in firm performance.Practical implicationsThe results indicate that organizations seeking higher performance returns by expanding their breadth of innovations need parallel attention on higher learning breadth in order to adequately capture the value from this broader set of innovations.Originality/valueThe paper contextualizes learning and innovation in the SMEs and argues that the consideration of diversity (breadth) of learning and innovation can help us understand their performance implications across industries. It also extends the effect of previous venture experience (PVE) of the leadership team in explaining performance. Beyond their ability to address external factors, PVE has a moderating effect on the relationship between learning and innovation breadth across the organization. Previous venture experience serves as both a guide and catalyst for investments in learning activities that lead to a broader range of innovation activities across the firm.

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confidence: 99%