Management of Knowledge, Innovation and Performance in SMEs

Valdez, Luis Enrique; Lema, Domingo García-Pérez de; Maldonado-Guzmán, Gonzalo

doi:10.28945/3455

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“…Hence, Inv is a variable that influences an organization's ability to compete (Mota Veiga et al, 2021). Some of the variables that have been identified as influencing innovation include management style, decision style (Ali et al, 2017), creativity (Hallak et al, 2018;Valaei et al, 2017), training, knowledge, organizational culture (Valdez et al, 2016), business management (L opez Lemus and De la Garza Carranza, 2019) and sustainability (El Hilali et al, 2020).…”

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confidence: 99%

Components to foster organizational resilience in tourism SMEs

Núñez-Ríos

Sánchez-García

Soto-Pérez

et al. 2021

BPMJ

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PurposeSmall- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) mainly rely on their structure and internal networks to achieve their goals and remain competitive. However, their limited internal capabilities and complex environments can hinder their stability. Thus, this study evaluated the relationships among specific factors toward fostering organizational resilience (OR) in tourism SMEs.Design/methodology/approachA multi-methodological approach was adopted to address this research study, including (1) social network analysis (SNA) to formulate the conceptual model and (2) construct validation through partial least squares path modeling (PLS-PM).FindingsThe six proposed hypotheses were supported. These results suggest that addressing these variables and relationships after considering management style and people development as critical factors can foster OR in tourism SMEs.Research limitations/implicationsThe ideas that were developed were constrained to the organizational domain. Although the results apply to the Mexican context, this limitation can be offset by extending the proposal to other emergent regions or organizations. This can also increase the generalization of the results and foster improvements in the approaches applied.Practical implicationsAcademics and managers must rethink resilience as the final state generated by multiple factors. This requires reconfiguring inner organizational interactions, providing more autonomy to operative units, reinforcing business intelligence and improving feedback mechanisms.Originality/valueThis research study contrasts previous studies because it proposes that SNA be exploited to avail of the advantages it confers in designing the conceptual model. In this regard, we present new relationships to promote OR and provide new avenues in order to improve the analysis of adaptation processes.

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Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

Components to foster organizational resilience in tourism SMEs

Núñez-Ríos

Sánchez-García

Soto-Pérez

et al. 2021

BPMJ

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“…The technological capacity involves a series of financial and human resources to achieve efficiency [11]. Technological capacity encompasses the practical and theoretical knowledge that will allow a company to improve and develop new products [12,13]. New technologies have important implications in open innovation processes for SMEs, since with this organizational link, they can meet customer expectations and achieve more excellent corporate financial performance [14].…”

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Technological Capabilities, Open Innovation, and Eco-Innovation: Dynamic Capabilities to Increase Corporate Performance of SMEs

Valdez-Juárez

Castillo-Vergara

2021

Journal of Open Innovation: Technology, Market, and Complexity

107

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Currently, small and medium enterprises (SMEs) play a leading role in most of the world’s economies. For this reason, they seek technological competitiveness and improvement of their innovation activities. In this context, open innovation and eco-innovation are important elements to achieve these goals. With this background, the purpose of this paper is to analyze the relationship between technological capability, open innovation, and eco-innovation in corporate performance, testing a structural equation model using SmartPLS in a sample of 684 small and medium-sized companies in Mexico. The main results show that technological capability significantly influences open innovation and eco-innovation practices, not directly in corporate performance, but through open innovation or eco-innovation. Our results also confirm the positive effects that eco-innovation and open innovation have on SMEs’ corporate performance. These results have important implications in the literature on dynamic capabilities that have not been previously tested. For companies and decision-makers, it shows why these practices in small and medium-sized companies should be encouraged.

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“…Chen (2007) said that the KM processes of knowledge acquisition, responsiveness, dissemination, and utilization influence company performance of financial, customer, internal business process, and learning and growth. Based on such past research (Valdez-Juárez et al, 2016), it can be seen that the KM process and company performance have a positive relationship. This expectation is formulated in the following hypothesis:…”

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Investigation of the Relationship between the Knowledge Management Process and Performance of a Construction Company: An Empirical Study

Wibowo

Waluyo

Zhabrinna

2018

IJIKM

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Aim/Purpose: This study aims to investigate the relationship between the knowledge management (KM) process and the performance of construction companies. The ultimate goal is to promote better efficiency and competitive advantage in the construction industry by making the best use of knowledge. Background: While attention to KM is currently on the rise, as shown by the number of studies conducted, research on KM in the construction industry of Indonesia is still very rare. However, organizational learning as the implementation of KM provides an opportunity to improve the construction industry, and thus there is an urgency to conduct research on this topic. Methodology: This study lasted for three months and used the survey method, with 100 questionnaires distributed to contractors of grade 6 and 7 on the islands of Java and Borneo in Indonesia. A total of 54 returned questionnaires were deemed complete and eligible for further analysis. Data analysis was performed using the structural equation modeling method with partial least squares (SEM PLS). Contribution: This study helps to measure the relationship value of the KM process and company performance. Findings: The results of this study indicate that the process of KM has a significant and positive influence on company performance, and there is a positive interaction in the process of KM and company performance as well. Recommendations for Practitioners: Construction companies need to perceive that activities undertaken in a construction project should always be assumed to be a KM process in order to make strategic and effective decisions that can result in improvements to customers, finance, internal business, learning, and growth. Recommendation for Researchers: Research on the KM process and information technology needs to be developed more, so that construction companies can apply this knowledge to explore problems and create solutions, resulting in methods to facilitate efficiency and effectiveness. Impact on Society: This paper helps to understand that KM activities provide initial benefits and guidance for companies that want to apply KM. Future Research: Innovative and new ideas to cultivate the KM process in the construction industry need to be explored and developed to improve the implementation.

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Management of Knowledge, Innovation and Performance in SMEs

Cited by 48 publications

References 215 publications

Components to foster organizational resilience in tourism SMEs

Components to foster organizational resilience in tourism SMEs

Technological Capabilities, Open Innovation, and Eco-Innovation: Dynamic Capabilities to Increase Corporate Performance of SMEs

Investigation of the Relationship between the Knowledge Management Process and Performance of a Construction Company: An Empirical Study

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