Sustainable and Traditional Product Innovation without Scale and Experience, but Only for KIBS!

Lafuente, Esteban; Vaillant, Yancy; Leiva, Juan Carlos

doi:10.3390/su10041169

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“…We skipped the same test for the outcome "intention to purchase EVs" because we assume that the necessary conditions for the outcome "interest toward EVs" are the prerequisite for the second outcome to occur. Necessary conditions are fulfilled if the consistency score is over the threshold value of 0.90 [82]. Table 3 shows that three conditions can be considered necessary because the function's consistency score is above the required threshold for all the sample: frequent car use, climate awareness, and fuel economy.…”

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Attitudes Toward Electric Vehicles: The Case of Perugia Using a Fuzzy Set Analysis

Bigerna

Micheli

2018

Sustainability

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Sustainable mobility has received increasing attention in recent years. The transport sector contributes to almost a quarter of Europe's greenhouse gas emissions. The development of electric vehicles (EVs) may help the shift toward sustainable mobility, reducing oil vulnerability and greenhouse gas emissions in road transport. Poor penetration of EVs might be explained, moreover, by consumer resistance to EVs. The aim of our paper is to determine consumers' attitude and preferences for EVs, investigating which conditions influence consumer decision-making to purchase an EV. Using a fuzzy set qualitative comparative analysis of 421 highly-educated individuals, involving students and faculty members, we identify several configurations of conditions of the variables which lead to the outcomes, supporting their equifinality and asymmetric nature. Our findings indicate attitudes related to EVs differ across age and groups. Our paper offers public decision makers new useful insights for understanding the importance of specific determinants, and for designing effective strategies for EVs' development worldwide.system, due to their high efficiency throughout the fuel supply chain and vehicle fuel consumption [7,8]. A number of positive impacts can be expected from the development of EVs. They are an alternative approach to contribute to a more sustainable mobility, reducing fuel consumption and GHG emissions [9]. EVs are the best way to tap into renewable energy sources, such as solar and wind power [10], thus indicating that the deployment of EVs and renewable energy sources should take place concomitantly [11]. Moreover, EVs have the potential to make major contributions to the electric supply system, as storage or generation resources, or both [12]. Specifically, EVs can absorb excess energy production (for instance from wind power) that would be wasted or curtailed [13].However, the emerging EV "industry" still faces technological challenges in terms of vehicle and infrastructure design, and EVs are expensive to obtain. There are unresolved issues about the viability of the current generation of EVs, such as rapid charging, range, lack of infrastructure, and load of the grid. Also, off peak-load impacts may arise from the integration of EVs with electricity grids [14].Despite the fact that the Paris Declaration on Electro-Mobility and Climate Change and Call to Action has forecast a threshold of 100 million EVs by 2030 [15], it has to be recognized that large scale EV deployment is still not a reality. There were 2 million EVs in circulation worldwide in 2016, i.e., 1.4% of the total passenger car market.Transitions to green technologies such as EVs often require significant shifts not only in technology, but in political regulations, tariffs and pricing regimes, and the behavior of users and adopters [16]. Consumer resistance to EVs is an obstacle to the adoption of this technology. Potential EV purchasers identify the cost premium, range limitation and recharging time of EVs as disadvantages compared to conventiona...

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“…The fsQCA analysis uncovers which causal conditions are necessary, and which are sufficient, thus it is especially suitable to analyze complex configurational patterns, equifinality, and multiple optimal conditions in small sample designs [82].…”

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Attitudes Toward Electric Vehicles: The Case of Perugia Using a Fuzzy Set Analysis

Bigerna

Micheli

2018

Sustainability

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“…Using a sample of 74 high-performance businesses in Costa Rica, Lafuente et al (2018) used fuzzy analysis (qualitative comparative analysis) to evaluate how the development of sustainable and traditional product innovation strategies was conditioned by business learning abilities and entrepreneurial orientation in knowledge-business intensive (KIBS) and non-knowledge intensive business. KIBS companies are found to improve knowledge and customer-oriented orientations that characterize their businesses and contribute short-term work to improve the personal service characteristics needed to achieve optimal traditional and sustainable product innovation.…”

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Iconic Product Advantage for Improving Marketing Performance of Indonesian Small and Medium Enterprises

Hanfan¹,

Nupus²,

Lutfi³

2020

IJEBA

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Purpose:To examine the role of iconic product advantage to improve marketing performance. Design/Methodology/Approach: This study uses primary data obtained from interviews based on a list of questions to 103 respondents of Salted Egg SMEs in Brebes Regency, Central Java Province, Indonesia. Findings: All hypotheses are accepted, market orientation influences iconic product advantage, product innovation influences iconic product advantage, dynamic capability influences iconic product advantage, iconic product advantage influences marketing performance. Practical Implications: There is no research that examines the market orientation of marketing performance that is bridged by the iconic product advantage. This research proves that the iconic product advantage bridges the market orientation with the marketing performance of Brebes Salted Egg SMEs that is supported by product innovation and dynamic capability. Originality/Value: Iconic product advantage is novelty in this study. Iconic product advantage is the superiority of the company by making products that become icons or symbols that serve as a reminder for consumers with the symbols contained in the product.

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“…Contrary to the case of the formal education that represents an example of codified knowledge, labor market experience is a form of mostly tacit knowledge that is linked to market-oriented observation and action. The accumulation of market experience implies the observation and analysis of a number of aspects relevant for the organization, including, for example, recruiting, implementation of product development strategies, organizational learning, as well as the greater exposure to international competitors in the domestic market (e.g., Lafuente et al, 2018;Leonidou et al, 2010;Manolova et al, 2010). Therefore, we propose that increased labor market experience of managers can act as stimulus for international operations.…”

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Export diversity and the relevance of different forms of market experience

Alvarado

Lafuente

Mora-Esquivel

2019

IJBE

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This study evaluates how different forms of human capital-i.e., formal management studies, labor market experience and experience in multinational businesses-explain the export diversity of SMEs, defined as the number of foreign market destinations where the business sells its goods or services. The proposed hypotheses are tested using negative binomial regression models on a unique sample of 117 Costa Rican SMEs for 2017. The findings reveal that labor experience in multinational firms-in particular, experience in managerial positions-is a relevant source of human capital that equip entrepreneurs with specific know-how that is conducive to export diversity, in terms of number of market destinations. Results also show that firm size, age and online sales (e-commerce) are positively correlated to export diversity. Beyond canonical export-related measures, this study offers insights on the importance of including the number of foreign markets (market destinations) in the evaluation of the export performance of SMEs.

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Sustainable and Traditional Product Innovation without Scale and Experience, but Only for KIBS!

Cited by 41 publications

References 74 publications

Attitudes Toward Electric Vehicles: The Case of Perugia Using a Fuzzy Set Analysis

Attitudes Toward Electric Vehicles: The Case of Perugia Using a Fuzzy Set Analysis

Iconic Product Advantage for Improving Marketing Performance of Indonesian Small and Medium Enterprises

Export diversity and the relevance of different forms of market experience

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