The International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation, Ahead of Print.
There is an ongoing scholarly debate regarding the compatibility of sustained high levels of firm-level growth with today's environmental sustainability goals, which include targets for limiting carbon emissions and avoiding further biodiversity loss. In this study, we aim to explore this issue through a quantitative analysis of the relationship between firm-level growth and sustainable innovation (i.e., all innovations with benefits for the environment) within an international sample of small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). To accomplish this, we utilise micro-data from the Community Innovation Survey, based on the conceptual framework provided by the Oslo Manual. By employing econometric models, we demonstrate that sustainable innovations promote SME growth. Specifically, we find that SMEs implementing sustainable innovations experience higher growth compared to those that do not practice them. Our research not only contributes to the existing literature in economics and management by providing more extensive knowledge but it also identifies several policy and management implications. Furthermore, we seek to offer novel insights into the importance of sustainable innovations adopted by growth-oriented SMEs.
Enhancing stability and achieving high-quality development in rural credit cooperatives through inclusive finance: evidence from Shaanxi Province, China
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Discount Coupons Versus Trust and Satisfaction—Which is Better for M-Commerce?
Management and Labour Studies, Ahead of Print.
Online shopping apps offer discounts with the help of coupons which have been shown to be highly effective, especially, in the case of mobile commerce. However, the mechanism of attracting customers via discounting and its effect on the adoption of mobile shopping apps have not been studied in detail. We explored the important antecedents for continued usage intention of mobile shopping apps. Further, we explored the effect of coupon proneness via the expectation confirmation model. We have explored the mediating role of trust and moderating role of coupon proneness on the relationship between satisfaction and intention of continued usage. We found direct and indirect linkages of satisfaction, confirmation of expectations, perceived usefulness and trust and coupon proneness with continued usage intention. Results indicated that trust partially mediates the relationship between satisfaction and continued usage intention, and coupon proneness negatively moderates the relationship between trust and continued usage intention. Our study shows that coupons are effective in the short run but satisfaction and trust building are important for long-term strategy. Some personality traits can have an impact on the findings which have not been part of this study. Future research can expand and validate these findings.
Online shopping apps offer discounts with the help of coupons which have been shown to be highly effective, especially, in the case of mobile commerce. However, the mechanism of attracting customers via discounting and its effect on the adoption of mobile shopping apps have not been studied in detail. We explored the important antecedents for continued usage intention of mobile shopping apps. Further, we explored the effect of coupon proneness via the expectation confirmation model. We have explored the mediating role of trust and moderating role of coupon proneness on the relationship between satisfaction and intention of continued usage. We found direct and indirect linkages of satisfaction, confirmation of expectations, perceived usefulness and trust and coupon proneness with continued usage intention. Results indicated that trust partially mediates the relationship between satisfaction and continued usage intention, and coupon proneness negatively moderates the relationship between trust and continued usage intention. Our study shows that coupons are effective in the short run but satisfaction and trust building are important for long-term strategy. Some personality traits can have an impact on the findings which have not been part of this study. Future research can expand and validate these findings.
Positive Influence of Organisational Politics on Job Performance in Indian Higher Education Context: A Qualitative Inquiry
South Asian Journal of Human Resources Management, Ahead of Print.
The job performance of academics in the higher education context has transcended from the prime focus of teaching to the concurrence of learning facilitation, research and publication. These reforms address a central research question: What are the emerging factors influencing job performance in the Indian higher education context? This study adopts a qualitative research design to explore the emerging factors affecting job performance. Thirteen academic researchers from Indian universities participated in the focus group discussions. The results of focus group discussions unravel five themes: demographics, behaviours, motivation, context and skills. The focus group discussions foregrounded the debate on knowledge-sharing behaviours, organisational politics and networking skills. However, what remains unknown is whether the organisational actors’ political characteristics influence their knowledge sharing, affecting their job performance. In this regard, the authors propose a new model that binds organisational politics to knowledge sharing and its impact on job performance. This novel approach to examining job performance contributes to theory by providing insights into the emerging themes that affect job performance and emphasising the role of political characteristics in understanding the job performance of academic researchers.
The job performance of academics in the higher education context has transcended from the prime focus of teaching to the concurrence of learning facilitation, research and publication. These reforms address a central research question: What are the emerging factors influencing job performance in the Indian higher education context? This study adopts a qualitative research design to explore the emerging factors affecting job performance. Thirteen academic researchers from Indian universities participated in the focus group discussions. The results of focus group discussions unravel five themes: demographics, behaviours, motivation, context and skills. The focus group discussions foregrounded the debate on knowledge-sharing behaviours, organisational politics and networking skills. However, what remains unknown is whether the organisational actors’ political characteristics influence their knowledge sharing, affecting their job performance. In this regard, the authors propose a new model that binds organisational politics to knowledge sharing and its impact on job performance. This novel approach to examining job performance contributes to theory by providing insights into the emerging themes that affect job performance and emphasising the role of political characteristics in understanding the job performance of academic researchers.
Group budget‐based bonus scheme and group cooperation: The role of social value orientation, goal alignment, and group identity
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In a workgroup setting, we use a quasi-experiment to examine whether and why proself rather than prosocial employees benefit more from high group identity to foster group cooperation. We validate the goal-transformation hypothesis that proself rather than prosocial employees benefit more from high group identity. Consistent with the goal-expectation hypothesis, we show that goal alignment explains why proself rather than prosocial employees benefit more from high group identity. The main implication of our results is that, when group identity is high, proself employees reinforce their strategic behaviour to cooperate with the group to obtain higher individual payoffs through greater goal alignment.
Technological Uncertainty, Value Appropriation, and Dense Versus Dispersed Patent Portfolios
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Patented inventions play an important role in generating firm value, with conventional wisdom generally suggesting that dense patent portfolios promote greater value. We challenge the universality of this assumption and argue that the relationship between patent portfolio density and firm value depends on factors reflecting other key invention-related conditions and choices. Specifically, we hypothesize that dispersed patent portfolios are positively associated with firm value when technology inputs are young and the technology is far from the locus of inventive activity, and dense portfolios are positively associated with firm value under the opposite conditions. We examine these relationships using a stock return response model, finding support for our hypotheses based on data collected from firms patenting in the chemicals technology area.
International case studies in tourism marketing
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Passing the Torch: Exploring how Tradition and Innovation Influence Coopetition among Street Performers
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Understanding how and why firms concurrently compete and cooperate with each other represents an important and growing area of study. This research centres on how firms engage in coopetition. However, this does not account for how much of the modern world works – independently. Through an inductive field study of 80 New Orleans street performers, we explore how and why independent creative workers engage in competition and/or cooperation. In so doing, we advance theory on coopetition by extending its explanations to the individual level. We theorize the well-established nature of creative industries encourages the belief in the need for deviating from the status quo by engaging in creativity and innovation, which we refer to as a trailblazing mindset. At the same time, we find that the accumulation of a long history of creative practices also fosters traditions. We theorize that tradition encourages the belief in the need to act as vested actors, or custodians, by passing work traditions from one generation to the next to allow the tradition to endure, which we refer to as the torchbearing mindset. Thus, torchbearing fosters cooperation while trailblazing fosters competition.
Insights into the Emerging Business Dynamics of Post-Soviet Central Asia
South Asian Journal of Business and Management Cases, Volume 12, Issue 2, Page 119-121, August 2023.
SME Internationalization as a Puzzle of Cultural and Bilateral Distances: Using the Eisenhardt Approach
South Asian Journal of Business and Management Cases, Volume 12, Issue 2, Page 166-193, August 2023.
Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) have recently been discovered to function as catalysts for globalization. However, despite the increasing interest in the internationalization of SMEs, doing business in another country offers its own unique set of challenges that must be overcome if an SME’s international venture is to be successful. For sectors where operational efficiency is necessary and there are added pressures due to cultural differences in consumer behaviour (e.g., fast-food chains), managing the operations process is essential for ensuring success and growth. Furthermore, the export of the conventional business model becomes complicated because of the significant variations in brand localization requirements across nations, which force businesses to make significant changes to cater to local client preferences. Given this scenario, how can an SME identify and adjust the critical barriers towards deciding and acting on foreign market entry and exit?To answer this question, we looked for a theoretical sample (case) of a business that successfully entered and operated in some markets and exited from others within the same period. In this investigation, we examine the Russian pizza company Dodo Pizza’s exodus from China and the UK as compared to their successful operations in Kazakhstan using Eisenhardt’s comparative case methodology. We use each country’s operations as a case in this research and apply Eisenhardt’s comparative case methodology to identify and theorize the factors of national context essential to the organization’s actions and outcomes in a given country.
Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) have recently been discovered to function as catalysts for globalization. However, despite the increasing interest in the internationalization of SMEs, doing business in another country offers its own unique set of challenges that must be overcome if an SME’s international venture is to be successful. For sectors where operational efficiency is necessary and there are added pressures due to cultural differences in consumer behaviour (e.g., fast-food chains), managing the operations process is essential for ensuring success and growth. Furthermore, the export of the conventional business model becomes complicated because of the significant variations in brand localization requirements across nations, which force businesses to make significant changes to cater to local client preferences. Given this scenario, how can an SME identify and adjust the critical barriers towards deciding and acting on foreign market entry and exit?To answer this question, we looked for a theoretical sample (case) of a business that successfully entered and operated in some markets and exited from others within the same period. In this investigation, we examine the Russian pizza company Dodo Pizza’s exodus from China and the UK as compared to their successful operations in Kazakhstan using Eisenhardt’s comparative case methodology. We use each country’s operations as a case in this research and apply Eisenhardt’s comparative case methodology to identify and theorize the factors of national context essential to the organization’s actions and outcomes in a given country.