Integrating sustainability aspects into product development has long been recognized as a strategic priority for practitioners. Yet the literature reports mixed results on the product development ...effectiveness outcomes of sustainable product development strategies, while scant research has investigated how companies integrate environmental aspects into product development. This study develops a model that integrates effectiveness-enhancing outcomes and organizational inputs of eco-friendly product development strategies. Using questionnaire responses from firms from multiple industries, supplemented with lagged primary product development performance data, we find that top management commitment and corporate environmental support policies can facilitate eco-friendly product development strategies, while environmental performance incentives do not. In turn, the adoption of such strategies has a positive effect on firms’ product development effectiveness. This effect weakens when business conditions are highly complex but tends to become stronger with increasing levels of munificence in the business environment. These findings have important implications for practitioners and researchers that are discussed.
In this study, an organization means an active actor that can, at least to some extent, adapt to the environment, mainly within the limits of its resources and capabilities. The article enhances ...understanding of and explains organizational adaptive behavior in weathering the storm in the business environment resulting from the global financial crisis of 2008. The literature on dynamic capabilities, organizational change, and innovation in the context of organizational performance and survival captures this kind of adaptive behavior. The empirical study builds on a quantitative survey and a qualitative case study covering the food processing, maritime, and media industries. Structural equation modeling, group analysis, and qualitative case comparisons shed light on the connection between the constructs in question. Implications for theory and practice culminate in suggestions for future research.
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The impact of significant competition factors on the riskiness of business risk in the SMEs sector in the Czech Republic and Slovak Republic. The empirical research was constructed on the basis a ...questionnaire. The attitudes from 641 entrepreneurs from two countries were collected during the year 2018. The statistical hypotheses were evaluated using quantitative methods. The multiple linear regression models were used to evaluate the impact of the competitive environment and of the narrow business environment on the perception of the riskiness of business risk according to entrepreneurs. The conclusions ofthe research showed an interesting finding. The authors found that the competitive environment, as well as the narrower business environment, affects the perception of the riskiness of business risk. It has also been shown that my customers accept the prices of my products and services. This is the most important indicator of a competitive environment. The most important indicator of a narrower business environment is that my customers support me in doing business. The authors believe that the article has brought several interesting findings and new incentives for the further research and discussion regarding to the perception of enterprise risk not only in the selected countries this research.
Using Business Environment Enterprise Performance Surveys (BEEPS), this paper provides a multistage empirical analysis of product innovation and firm performance in transition economies (TEs). The ...Crepon-Duguet-Mairesse (CDM) model, a four-stage approach, is used to investigate the innovation-performance relationship. The multistage model allows studying the innovation activities of firms through multi-interrelated factors while controlling the issue of simultaneity and causality. The paper contributes to the research in this area by estimating the effect of innovation on performance through multistage equation modeling. It fills the gap in providing an understanding of factors that influence on product innovation - firm performance relationship in transition economies. This research is among the first to use product-only innovation to measure the impact of innovation on firms' performance. Findings indicate that product innovation has a positive impact on firm performance in transition economies, complemented by significant impact of specific control variables such as size, total labor cost, capital of the firm. Whereas age and competition from the informal sector, have a negative and significant effect on performance.
•Product innovation has a positive impact on firm performance in transition economies.•Crepon-Duguet-Mairesse (CDM) model, a four-stage approach, is used to investigate the innovation-performance relationship.•Skilled workers, modern technology and collaborating with foreign firms have positive impact on performance.•Time spent on innovation is positive and significantly related to the decision to innovate.•Age and competition from the informal sector, have a negative and significant effect on performance.
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Information communication technology (ICT) is driving modern employment creation with networking sites enabling people to interact through innovation. However, ICT uptake and implementation differ ...due to moderating factors such as entrepreneur innovativeness, which enhances how technology innovation impacts organizational performance. This study examines the association between technology innovation and firm performance in Kenya by considering the impact of entrepreneur innovativeness on this association. A sample of 240 enterprises and structural equation modeling were used in the analysis. The findings indicate that technology innovation influences firm performance positively. The study recommends that entrepreneurs should develop innovative strategies to actualize firm performance. Government policy should aim at improving ICT infrastructure; promoting small and medium-sized enterprises' (SMEs') technological externalities within the industry, and establishing ICT resource centers to support SME performance. The study's findings enrich existing theories and contribute to business management practices in both developed and developing countries.
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This study explores resilience as an empirical phenomenon from the interactive perspective of Industrial Marketing and Purchasing (IMP) in order to understand how firms build and manage ...interdependencies within their business environment to become and remain resilient in the face of turbulent change. The paper reviews managerial literature on resilience and relates it to IMP's basic tenets of firm interaction and resource interdependence within the contexts of business networks and business environment, as well as the concept of social capital. This analytical framework is used to analyse selected vignettes from an in-depth case study of a firm and its business network operating in a turbulent industrial market under chronically uncertain institutional conditions in Russia. This paper presents a context-bound model of firm resilience, explaining how it is achieved in a business network situated in a particularly turbulent business environment, specifically highlighting the role of social capital in accessing resources. The paper contributes to the conceptual base of IMP with a context-sensitive interpretation of resilience, while also nuancing the views of IMP on the function of business networks and the nature of resource interdependencies, as well as problematising the network logic that may encourage the development of resilience through shady means.
•The means of achieving resilience are context dependent.•Resilience may be the main function of business networks.•Social capital may act as an alternative investment pattern for resilience.•Network logic may encourage shady means to achieve resilience.
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Purpose: This study aims to identify the factors affecting the Rough Set Theory-Based Iranian Sports Entrepreneurship Ecosystem and their prioritization in terms of Rough Set Theory.Methodology: This ...study is a type of mixed research. Thirteen experts in the field of entrepreneurship participated in the qualitative phase, and 15 experts in the field of entrepreneurship who were selected in a targeted method participated in the quantitative phase. A semi-structured interview served as the data collection method for the qualitative part of the study. The researcher created a questionnaire to gather data for the quantitative section.Findings: In the qualitative section using the theme analysis method, 193 basic themes, 25 organizing themes, and six inclusive themes were found. The inclusive themes covered market possibilities, money, business, legal infrastructure, physical infrastructure, entrepreneurial sports prospects, and business environment quality. The results of the quantitative part of the study revealed that the commercial and legal infrastructures are more significant than other identified themes and that the quality of the business environment is the minimum considerable factor influencing the entrepreneurial sports ecosystem.Originality: Using the theme analysis approach and Rough Set Theory-based AHP, the current research aims to identify and prioritize the elements impacting the entrepreneurial ecosystem in Iranian sports. According to this study, a wide range of variables may contribute to the Iranian sports’ entrepreneurial ecosystem growth.
The optimization of the business environment helps to create a good market ecological environment and promote industrial development. Based on the theory of institutional complexity, this study ...constructs the evaluation index system of China's urban business environment and analyzes the influencing factors using the NCA method. It is found that there is no necessary condition for a single element to constitute the high-level development of the tourism industry, but improving public service, total market volume, and innovation environment play universal roles in promoting the high-level development of the tourism industry. Using fsQCA for configuration analysis, two business environment configuration paths with high-level development of the tourism industry are obtained, which shows that there is no single path to promote the development of the tourism industry. In addition, the antecedent paths of high- and low-level tourism industry development are not the opposite, presenting an asymmetric causal relationship. The above findings reveal the realization path of the business environment for the development of China's urban tourism industry. Under the logic of multiple systems, cities can find the business ecological environment that best matches the development of the local tourism industry.
In the present days, the business environment faces one important wave in its development, therefore due to the wave of rapid technological advancements, the digital era that is currently reshaping ...behaviour, habits, and trends, stands as a testament to the necessity of innovation and adaptation of the latest digital technologies. At first glance, the benefits of digitalization are well recognized, such as: increasing connectivity as a catalyst for communication and collaboration while increasing access to information. Hence, both businesses and individuals find themselves empowered by the great benefits of the digital era, presented as a world in which the barriers determined by time and space are no longer an issue, being transcended by the implantation of the latest digital technologies. Therefore, it is necessary to inspect the corelations between the two important indexes provided by the European database, such as DESI and EIBIS, in order to identify how the score of DESI can influence directly, or not, the business environment’s investment in digital technologies, both on single technologies and multiple technologies, taking into account the usage of the emergent digital technologies, such as: BigData, AI and Clouds. The correlations will provide a better understanding of the role of digitalization in developing the economic environment of a state, or at a bigger image, of the European Union’s business environment.
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