The impact of SME internationalization on innovation: The mediating role of market and entrepreneurial orientation
By Ebru Genç, Mumin Dayan, O. Genc. Industrial Marketing Management, 2019
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Abstract In today's highly competitive global environment, even small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) need to make product and process innovations in order to outperform the competition and satisfy global customers. Investigating the success factors of innovation performance has become critical for the survival and competitiveness of SMEs. The aim of this study is to explore the impact of the degree of internationalization (DoI) on innovation performance through the mediating factors of market and entrepreneurial orientation in the context of emerging-market SMEs. We tested our model and hypotheses with 235 SMEs in the United Arab Emirates, which is an emerging market. The results obtained from partial least squares estimates indicate that the degree of internationalization positively affects innovation performance and, more importantly, that this relationship is indirect and fully mediated by market and entrepreneurial orientation for SMEs. These results shed light on the mechanism of the effect of DoI on innovation performance in the emerging-market SME context.
Subfields: Management of Technology and Innovation, Strategy and Management
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- Exploring the impact of big data analytics capabilities on business model innovation: The mediating role of entrepreneurial orientation (2021, unknown): “…entrepreneurship represents a critical success factor for BMI (Foss & Saebi, 2018) as it allows companies to enhance their collaborative network with various stakeholders, exchange resources, competences and knowledge with them, thus facilitating the likelihood of innovation (Genc et al., 2019).”
- R&D internationalization in medium-sized firms: The moderating role of knowledge management in enhancing innovation performances (2019, background): “Thus, one of the main motivations of this paper is related to the fact that in the majority of the studies on R&D internationalization, the primary focus was on large corporations and little attention has been given at the impact of R&D internationalization on SMEs’ innovation performances and relat”