Internet resources and capabilities: Japanese SME risk-taking, industry and performance

Do entrepreneurial and digital orientations impact e-marketing adoption? The COVID-19 pandemic context1

“…According to this study, EOR's relations with both e-promotion and e-distribution adoption during the COVID-19 pandemic are negative. It means that the companies with higher tendencies toward risktaking are simultaneously less likely to adopt e-promotion and e-distribution, although, as results from the literature show, firms with a higher propensity to take risks are also more likely to undertake different online solutions [Mathews et al, 2018]. The surprising conclusions with regard to the studied Polish companies may be due to that these medium-sized and large firms had already adopted e-promotion and e-distribution prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, and therefore had no need to implement such solutions during the ongoing pandemic and do not consider it from the prism of risk-taking.…”

Determinants of Digital Innovation in Micro and Small Industries

“…According to the Resource Base Views (RBV) paradigm, MSEs' digitalization might be a resource to survive and be more sustainable (Bai et al 2021). The RBV theory states that every company can or already has resources and capabilities within their organization that can be developed and utilized as specific capabilities for the operation of functional activities and/or create competitive advantage (Bai et al 2021;Mathews et al 2018). According to this theory, an organization decides to adopt certain resources based on consideration of the benefits and risks that will be obtained (Mathews et al 2018).…”

“…On the other hand, strong business partnerships can minimize technology adoption and innovation (Mathews et al 2018). MSIs may believe that they do not require digital innovation (i.e., e-marketing and e-selling) since for marketing and selling products they already have partners who take care of it or buy all of their products.…”

“…According to Mathews et al (2018), manufacturing is one of the industries under greater pressure to have a higher Internet adoption rate to enable digital innovation. MSIs are MSEs engaged in the manufacturing industry (Bahagia et al 2022).…”

“…The data above shows that MSI businesses are still reluctant to use the Internet to support their digital innovation and business activities. It is undeniable that to be able to successfully utilize internet-based ICT and digital technology requires the readiness of resources, including knowledge, understanding, abilities, skills, management, and costs (Kraft et al 2022;Kapoor and Kapoor 2021;Mathews et al 2018;Rahayu and Day 2015). MSE businesses are generally characterized by being of poor structure and informal, adopting the bottom-up method, having low managerial competence, and being hampered by limited operational costs, access to technology and equipment, and professional staff (Zhang and Erturk 2022;Bai et al 2021).…”