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The Impact of Entrepreneurial Orientation on Performance in EMDEs: A Configurational Perspective
Get PDFEntrepreneurship is increasingly crucial for addressing wicked problems, especially in emerging markets and developing economies (EMDEs), where complex environments require entrepreneurial or strategic fit. This requires an integrative view of entrepreneurship; however, fragmented knowledge hinders significant improvement in entrepreneurship theory and practice. To address this gap, this PhD thesis systematically integrates theoretical perspectives from a dynamic capability view, network and configurational theories to uncover the pathways through which enhanced performance is achieved. This is done by examining the role of idiosyncratic resources and capabilities and exploring how they are configured to develop high-order dynamic capabilities needed to sense, seize and transform opportunities to their advantage. The thesis achieves this objective from a critical realist perspective by examining the underlying entrepreneurial orientation (EO) -performance relationships by testing four developed hypotheses, uncovering the configurations that create the higher-order dynamic capabilities, and finally assessing the perceived value of firm resources and outcomes by Ghanaian SMEs.
Methodologically, it adopts a mixed-method approach, collecting data from 460 SMEs in Ghana. A pilot study using Structural equation modelling (SEM) is used to uncover the value of the linear relationship between EO and performance. Next, a fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA) is used to uncover the configurations that enhance performance while understanding the nuances of the values of resources and performance outcomes among Ghanaian SMEs using content analysis. SEM shows that while valuable sources of performance, network ties, and resource acquisition and utilisation capabilities are unable to significantly improve the EO-performance relationship among SMEs in EMDEs. fsQCA identifies eleven configurations needed to enhance performance. It also highlights role of innovativeness, proactiveness, political networks and resource utilisation capabilities as core conditions needed to enhance performance. Content analysis provides insights into valuable resources and firm outcomes. Overall, the findings provide an understanding of the role of resources and capabilities as facilitators and enablers and valuable configuration components for developing higher-order dynamic capabilities needed to enhance performance.
The thesis extends the theoretical understanding of entrepreneurship under the configurational approach by showing the relevance of adopting multiple macro, meso and micro-level perspectives to gain a fuller, finer-grained view of the combination of resources that support improved SME performance. This provides a way of fully understanding the entrepreneurship phenomenon beyond the valuable but divergent and fragmented perspective typically adopted in entrepreneurship studies. It also offers methodological contributions by providing evidence that diverse, seemingly divergent methodological perspectives and techniques can be effectively used in unison to provide a holistic view of entrepreneurship needed to understand the role of resources and capabilities, how they are configured to achieve enhanced performance and how a misalignment of a firm’s resources and capabilities with its environment can create underperformance. Moreover, the thesis offers practical contributions and policy implications by offering insights into the resource and capability combinations for enhancing SME performance. Finally, the study's limitations and directions for future research are discussed
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Green Synergy: Unleashing Creativity, Innovation, Dynamic Capability, and Performance of Small and Medium Firms
Get PDFThe critical role of green creativity in small firms’ financial and environmental performance has attracted scholarly interest in recent times. Prior studies have reported inconsistent findings on this relationship, prompting the need for further investigations. This study investigates the effect of green creativity on performance through green innovation at different levels of green dynamic capability. This study collected data on 246 small firms in a developing nation, Ghana. Adopting structural equation modelling (SEM) in LISREL 8.8 to test our hypothesized relationships, this study reveals that green creativity significantly affects both financial and environmental performance. We further find that green innovation does not significantly mediate the relationship between green creativity and performance (environmental and financial). Additionally, this study reports that at high levels of green dynamic capability, the positive relationship between green creativity and environmental performance through green innovation is strengthened
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Does managerial capability always drive performance? Empirical examinations of small and medium firms (SMEs) in a developing economy
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The paper sought to uncover the conditions under which managerial capability enhances performance while considering the role of social capital within the unique boundary conditions created by competitive intensity.
Design/methodology/approach
The authors use multi-source data from 206 managers and owners of SMEs from a Sub-Saharan African nation – Ghana.
Findings
Using structural equation modeling (SEM) to analysis the data, the findings revealed that social capital serves as a mechanism through which managerial capability influences performance. Furthermore, the results indicate that competitive intensity does not significantly moderate this important indirect relationship. Implications: This study provides relevant knowledge for scholars, practitioners and policymakers on the role of managerial capability and how it may be harnessed in enhancing performance.
Originality/value
This paper provides a holistic understanding of the capability performance relationship in attempts at extending the literature by examining social capital as a mediator and competitive intensity as a contingent factor of this important relationship in a conditional indirect model
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
Social capital and performance of SMEs: The role of entrepreneurial orientation and managerial capability
No full textThis study proposes and investigates the argument that social capital–performance link is mediated by entrepreneurial orientation (EO) and that this mediated relationship is dependent upon the level of managerial capability (MC) present in a firm. The study uses a sample of 206 SMEs based in the sub-Saharan African economy. Mainly supporting conjectural predictions, the study indicates that EO intervenes the social capital (SC) effect on performance, with same effects uniquely strengthened according to the dimension of EO in question at higher levels of MC. The study expands our understanding of how the umpiring role of EO in the SC–performance link is contingent upon levels of MC present. Managers are, therefore, encouraged to strategically develop both EO and MC to enable them to effectively utilize and profit from the benefits SC has to offer
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