Achieving superior innovation-based performance outcomes in SMEs through innovation resource–capability complementarity

By P. Sok, Aron O'Cass. 2011

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Firms are increasingly identifying new avenues to enhance their market position. One such effort involves the firms' ability to continuously learn. Learning has the capacity to enable firms to develop and implement more efficient and effective innovation-focused strategies, resulting in the ability to develop and deliver more products in a timelier manner. This study tests the relationship between innovation resource–capability complementarity and innovation-based performance. This study further elaborates that while innovation resource–capability complementarity drives innovation-based performance; their relationship will be enhanced via the firms' possession of superior learning capability. The findings show a significant effect of innovation resource–capability complementarity on innovation-based performance. The results also show that firms that possess superior learning capability are willing to question their operational processes and routines and make adjustments following the feedback obtained from customers and channels; thereby enhancing their abilities to develop more new products and increase their speed in delivering products to the customers.

Subfields: Strategy and Management

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In Strategy and Management

1. P. Sok
2. K. Sok
3. Jing Zhang
4. M. Du
5. Yanxin Jiang
6. Rizwan Shabbir
7. Aron O'Cass
8. Léo‐Paul Dana

Citations in the corpus

• Achieving Superior SME Performance: Overarching Role of Marketing, Innovation, and Learning Capabilities (2013, background): “This study compares respondents (171 who returned questionnaires) and non-respondents (179 who had not returned questionnaires) in terms of firm size (e.g., Sok and O’Cass, 2011).”
• The impact of knowledge spillovers and innovation on firm-performance: findings from the Balkans countries (2017, background): “Different studies found the positive effects of innovation on firm-performance (Bowen et al. 2010; Damanpour et al. 2009; Fernades et al. 2013; Ratten 2014; Sok and O’Cass 2011; Subramanian and Nilakanta 1996).”
• Building industrial brand equity by leveraging firm capabilities and co-creating value with customers (2015, background): “Innovation capability is the most important determinant of firm performance, which has been supported by many empirical studies (Calantone, Cavusgil, & Zhao, 2002; Sok & O'Cass, 2011).”