Technological Innovation, Sustainable Green Practices and SMEs Sustainable Performance in Times of Crisis (COVID-19 pandemic)

Abstract

COVID-19 restrictions significantly affected SMEs, which have faced many challenges to their sustainability within this fragile new environment. This study proposes a holistic framework of sustainable performance by interrelating factors showing robust associations to produce this effect' for achieving sustainable performance in SMEs, through integrating the Technology Organisation Environment (TOE) and Resource Based View (RBV) models, to test how sustainable green practices can process the TOE factors when affecting sustainable performance. The research focuses on SMEs with worldwide employees and involves data collected from a range of different employees belonging to four different managerial levels. The process incorporated the analysis of 669 questionnaires to test the proposed hypotheses using structural equation modeling. Findings suggest that, together, TOE factors represent crucial inputs for green practices such as green training, green performance appraisal, that, in turn, mean critical processes lead to sustainable performance (output). Additionally, the findings should also inspire SMEs to focus even more effort on internal technological and organisational factors and to encourage an eco-friendly culture that would demand stakeholders adopt a more positive environmental stance.

Green supply chain management and SMEs environmental performance: green HRM practices as antecedent from service sector of emerging economy

“…Before testing, in the adopted model, the variance inflation factor (VIF) test was conducted to avoid any possible mistakes caused by unnecessary correlations between the utilized latent constructs (Alraja et al. , 2022; Hair et al.…”

“…Before testing, in the adopted model, the variance inflation factor (VIF) test was conducted to avoid any possible mistakes caused by unnecessary correlations between the utilized latent constructs (Alraja et al, 2022;Hair et al, 2010). All calculated values were less than 3.3 (Alraja, 2022;Hair et al, 2014), respectively (refer to Tables 1 and 5).…”

Eco-innovation and sustainable business performance: perspectives of SMEs in Portugal and the UK

“…Thomas et al (2021) also explore the role of eco-innovation on the performance of organisations, considering the influence of stakeholders in establishing relationships between customers and suppliers. Finally, in Alraja et al (2022), it is further suggested that COVID-19 offers an opportunity for SMEs to have a more positive environmental stance and that this will be a contributing factor to better sustainable performance. The role of eco-innovation for SMEs is also evident,…”

Accelerating digital business growth in a green economy and environmental sustainability

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