SMEs innovation capabilities and export performance: an entrepreneurial orientation view
By Cláudia Ribau, Antonio Carrizo Moreira, Mário Lino Barata Raposo. 2017
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Although there are several studies analysing how innovation capabilities influence export performance, this study aims to present the impact of a set of internal innovation capabilities on export performance of small and medium-sized firms (smes), with the mediating role of entrepreneurial orientation contingent upon the proactive or reactive behaviour of the firms to external stimuli. The study involves the analysis of 147 questionnaire‐based survey of managers from plastic manufacturing smes operating in Portugal that were subjected to a Partial Least Squares-Structural Equation Modelling (PLS-SEM) technique. The results show that proactive firms to external stimuli are not only better at innovating but also their entrepreneurial orientation capabilities underpin a better performance in international markets when compared with firms that react to external stimuli. This study has implications for smes aiming at increasing their export performance and innovativeness. For practitioners the findings of this study should enable smes owner/managers to better understand the possible impacts of innovation capabilities and entrepreneurial orientation on export performance, and thus lead to more effective smes management.
Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Strategy and Management
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Citations in the corpus
- THE IMPACT OF INNOVATION PERFORMANCE ON THE COMPETITIVENESS OF THE VISEGRAD 4 COUNTRIES (2018, background): “INTRODUCTION In today’s globalized world, there is an ongoing process of division of labor and changes in labor (Balcerzak, 2016; Peleckis, 2016; Sinicakova & Gavurova, 2017; Ribau et al., 2017), creating an even wider scope for exchange processes and the competitiveness of subjects on the domestic ”
- Innovation and business performance for Spanish SMEs: New evidence from a multi-dimensional approach (2018, background): “Many SMEs do not engage with internationalisation processes (Ribau et al., 2017).”
- The Dependence of Perceived Business Risks on the Size of SMEs (2018, background): “INTRODUCTION Today, managers are increasingly faced with the responsibility of taking important decisions to ensure prosperity, financial stability and competitiveness under uncertainty and risk conditions (Agarwal & Ansell 2016; Ključnikov & Popesko, 2017; Gumanti et al., 2017; Kliestikova et al., ”