scholarly journals Organizational demographic faultlines: their impact on collective organizational identification, firm performance, and firm innovation

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ulrich Leicht‐Deobald ◽  
Hendrik Huettermann ◽  
Heike Bruch ◽  
Barbara S. Lawrence
Keyword(s):  
Firm Performance ◽  
Organizational Identification ◽  
Firm Innovation

Study of managers in Vietnam shows HPWS practices impact both employer outcomes and firm performance

2020 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 24-26
Keyword(s):  
Firm Performance ◽  
High Performance ◽  
Firm Growth ◽  
Longitudinal Design ◽  
Service Firms ◽  
Firm Innovation ◽  
Environmental Pressures ◽  
Content Type ◽  
General Managers ◽  
Hr Managers

Purpose The purpose of this paper was to explore the effects of high-performance work systems (HPWS) on the performance of Vietnamese firms. Design/methodology/approach The authors adopt a longitudinal design to provide insights into why and how HPWS are shaped in Taiwan. They interviewed 17 leaders, including CEOs, HR managers and general managers in 17 Vietnamese service firms. They were interviewed twice, in 2013 then in 2017. Findings Analysis of the data showed that HPWS can impact both employee outcomes, such as attitudes, behaviours and productivity, and firm performance, such as firm innovation, firm growth and profit growth. Originality/value This was one of very few studies to try and understand how and why HPWS are shaped and executed to respond to environmental pressures.

Industry innovation spending and openness to collaboration as levers for firm performance

2019 ◽  
Vol 22 (4) ◽  
pp. 617-638 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luiz Fernando de Paris Caldas ◽  
Fabio de Oliveira Paula ◽  
T. Diana L. van Aduard de Macedo-Soares
Keyword(s):  
Firm Performance ◽  
Knowledge Spillovers ◽  
Moderating Effect ◽  
Firm Innovation ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Innovation Activities ◽  
Industry Collaboration ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Italian Manufacturing Firms ◽  
The Relationship

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to analyze to what extent spending on innovation activities and collaboration at the industry level affects the relationship between firm innovation and performance. Design/methodology/approach A conceptual model was proposed and empirically tested using multiple linear regression. The data were obtained from the Community Innovation Survey 2012, composing a sample of 890 Italian manufacturing firms. Findings The results provided full support for the positive moderating effect of intra-industry innovation spending and partial support for the positive moderating effect of intra-industry collaboration, both regarding the relationship between firm innovation spending and performance. Knowledge spillovers derived from intra-industry innovation spending and intra-industry collaboration affect firm performance. While this finding corroborates other studies that have found that the intra-industry R&D spending influences firms’ innovation and performance, it also contributes to improve the understanding about the complementarity of internal innovation activities and knowledge spillovers. Originality/value This study contributes to theory by filling a gap concerning the complementarity of internal innovation activities and the effect of knowledge spillovers to improve firm performance. Our findings suggested that intra-industry openness to collaboration and innovation spending, as proxies of knowledge spillovers, plays an important role in complementing firm level innovative efforts, even in the case of firms that spend less on innovation and have a lower degree of collaboration. This is especially relevant for small and medium enterprises, which can take advantage of access to the necessary information to overcome their internal resource constraints for R&D and innovation. The originality of these findings adds value in terms of furthering the understanding of this phenomenon.

Does organizational learning lead to higher firm performance?

2015 ◽  
Vol 22 (5) ◽  
pp. 271-288 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wencang Zhou ◽  
Huajing Hu ◽  
Xuli Shi
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Learning ◽  
Firm Performance ◽  
Financial Performance ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Positive Association ◽  
Firm Innovation ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Firm Financial Performance ◽  
Positive Correlations ◽  
And Performance

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to develop a framework for studying organizational learning, firm innovation and firm financial performance. Design/methodology/approach – This paper examines the effects of organizational learning on innovation and performance among 287 listed Chinese companies. Findings – The results indicate a positive association between organizational learning dimensions and firm performance (both objective financial performance and perceptual innovation measure). Research limitations/implications – The sample includes only firms for which secondary data are available. Different results might have been obtained if we include smaller, private firms into the sample. This paper only includes a limited number of measures of financial performance to assess the relationship between organization learning dimensions and firm performance. Therefore, researchers are encouraged to test the proposed propositions further with different performance measures. Practical implications – The results showed that it is the combination of several learning characteristics and not a single dimension that influenced the variance of firm performance. The findings reinforce the notion that systemic interventions that address a variety and different combinations of learning organization characteristics will be more likely to be successful than interventions that solely focus on singular or a limited number of dimensions. Originality/value – The integration of objective measures of firms’ financial performance with perceptual survey data represents a unique methodology that has not been widely used in the organizational learning literature. The positive correlations between the eight learning dimensions and the measures of firms’ performance lend credence to the efficacy of the organizational learning concepts.

scholarly journals Does Environmental Sustainability Impact Innovation, Ecological and Social Measures of Firm Performance of SMEs? Evidence from South Africa

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (11) ◽  
pp. 3855 ◽  
Author(s):  
Reginald Masocha
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Firm Performance ◽  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Small Businesses ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Firm Innovation ◽  
Multidimensional Construct ◽  
Equation Modelling ◽  
Sustainability Practices

This study investigated the question of whether environmental sustainability influences firm performance. Firm performance, a multidimensional construct, was researched utilizing innovation, ecological and social measures on the premises of SMEs in South Africa. Thus, the study hypothesized that environmental sustainability is positively and significantly related to innovation, ecological and social measures of firm performance. A cross-sectional research design was adopted in this study to test the abovementioned hypotheses. A total of 208 self-administered questionnaires distributed to SME owners and managers were analyzed utilizing structural equation modelling (SEM) and Amos Version 24 software. Primarily, the study established that environmental sustainability was significantly and positively correlated to all three measures of firm performance used in this study. Thus, the inferences from the findings suggest that environmental sustainability practices contribute positively towards firm innovation, ecological and social performances. The findings of this study greatly contribute towards the practice and theory of small businesses and firm performance by providing a more specific and streamlined perspective for approaching firm performance.

scholarly journals How firm size moderates the knowledge and affects the innovation performance? Evidence from Brazilian manufacturing firms

2021 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. e15567
Author(s):  
Marco Túlio Dinali Viglioni ◽  
Cristina Lelis Leal Calegario
Keyword(s):  
Firm Performance ◽  
Firm Size ◽  
Intangible Assets ◽  
Positive Influence ◽  
Innovation Performance ◽  
Firm Innovation ◽  
Positive Effects ◽  
Negative Results ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Number Of Firms

Objective: Consists in explore the relationship between firm size and knowledge to capture the firm innovation performance in Brazilian manufacturing industries.Methodology: Using the production function approach and following the Resource-Based-View – RBV theory, we investigate how the firm internal RD and the degree of intangible assets are moderated by firm size.Originality: The literature in the past decades has tried different methods to find strategies that improve the innovation of a large number of firms in different countries and regions. Yet, there is a large number of firms from emerging economies looking forward to improve productivity and the firm innovation performance.Main results: The results indicated that investment in RD is relevant to the firm performance. Nonetheless, the relationship between RD and firm size showed negative results. In the case of the degree of intangible resources, the same was observed, but the interaction between firm size and intangible assets showed positive effects on the firm performance. Finally, other important characteristics were observed, such as firm age and technology intensity, which showed positive influence over the firm performance.Theoretical contributions: The study showed that the degree of intangible assets is relevant for the firm, as the theory predicts, and it has become valuable for emerging enterprises, once not all firms may conduct RD activities.Social contributions: The findings update the understanding about RD and other intangible assets and provide new information to managers, researchers, and policymakers to develop new policies to promote and finance these activities.

CEO grandiose narcissism and firm performance: The role of organizational identification

2014 ◽  
Vol 25 (5) ◽  
pp. 958-971 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher S. Reina ◽  
Zhen Zhang ◽  
Suzanne J. Peterson
Keyword(s):  
Firm Performance ◽  
Organizational Identification ◽  
Grandiose Narcissism
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