...Peter Anabila; Desmond Kwadjo Kumi; Leeford Edem Kojo Ameyibor; Michael Mba Allan Purpose The study investigates the role of e-commerce adoption on Ghana’s small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) business performance. Design/methodology/approach A sample of 309 owner-managers...

...Bindu Singh; Shefali Srivastava; Ranjan Chaudhuri; Sheshadri Chatterjee; Demetris Vrontis Purpose This study aims at assessing entrepreneurial business performance (EBP) from dynamic capability (DC) and technology-organization-environment (TOE) framework perspectives, taking support from...

... of marketing analytics on business performance. NPI is a market-based innovation concept comprising customer- and competitor-driven NPD and incremental innovation. Design/methodology/approach Using survey data collected from UK-based entrepreneurial firms operating in the IT and telecoms industries, we...

.... Stronger community-mindedness leads to stronger business performance for Hispanic owners. On the contrary, White owners' performance significantly decreases. Social implications The findings recommend that collectivism is the way to go. Small business owners should have a collective feeling...

... a business as a franchisee under the regulations or headquarter issued rules is positively associated with change in net profit. Prior MSME networks and symbiosis research identifies that business performance is affected by frequency of contact (Tan et al., 2015), time of cooperation (Cygler...

... out of 5) and positively correlated with business profits of the banks. Besides, the high level of competition (measured by number of competitors and Boone indicator) in the product market (loans and deposits) significantly reduces profit of the banks. Business performance Commercial bank...

...) and innovation culture, together with their influence on business performance (BP). Design/methodology/approach This empirical research is based on an online questionnaire, which collected data from a non-probability quota sample consisting of 253 Croatian SMEs. The scales for IC, OC, and innovation culture...

...‐sized enterprises Marketing Software industry Case study research Success and failure Critical success factors Business performance Business failures This study explores the success and failure of two similar small software technology firms from a marketing perspective. The aim...

... for some companies. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2012 International entrepreneurship Factors Export barriers Malaysia Entrepreneurs Exports Business performance Qualitative research is regarded as a disciplined approach of collecting data and analysing information because...

...Helena Forsman Purpose There are not many answers to the question of how the development projects launched to improve business performance in SMEs have succeeded. This study focuses on business development success in SMEs. The main objective is to structure and model the success dimensions...

... Group Publishing Limited 2008 Small enterprises Business performance Supplier relations Multinational companies Knowledge transfer Governments compete to attract foreign investment, particularly from those companies with the capacity to generate positive effects on local companies...

... from the broader perspective where also the non‐financial aspects are taken into account. The emphasis is on the entrepreneurs' subjective perceptions of success. In studies of entrepreneurship much attention has been paid to factors that affect business performance. The recognised factors...

...Emma H. Wood Purpose In order to provide a deeper understanding of small business performance the study aims to analyse data from a national survey into small firms in the events sector. Design/methodology/approach The analysis used logistic regression to determine a model which best predicts...

... variables and relationships is argued in this paper if academics and policy makers seriously want to interpret and induct theory and practice from the key actors within their natural habitat. Thus, this paper provides a conceptual framework relative to small, urban tourism business performance, which...