Cover Image

SMEs’ export performance: the effect of learning orientation and innovativeness

This study investigates the role of innovativeness and learning orientation on the internationalisation performance of small and medium entrepreneurial firms. Exporting has been the most appropriate mode of expansion into foreign market for SMEs due to lower risk and less resource commitment. Th...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Md Daud Ismail,, Roshayati Abdul Hamid,, Zizah Che Senik,, Abdullah Sanusi Othman,, Noor Hasni Juhdi,
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 2018
Online Access:http://journalarticle.ukm.my/20477/1/29771-102226-1-PB.pdf
http://journalarticle.ukm.my/20477/
https://ejournal.ukm.my/pengurusan/issue/view/1154
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
id my-ukm.journal.20477
record_format eprints
spelling my-ukm.journal.204772022-11-11T00:57:05Z http://journalarticle.ukm.my/20477/ SMEs’ export performance: the effect of learning orientation and innovativeness Md Daud Ismail, Roshayati Abdul Hamid, Zizah Che Senik, Abdullah Sanusi Othman, Noor Hasni Juhdi, This study investigates the role of innovativeness and learning orientation on the internationalisation performance of small and medium entrepreneurial firms. Exporting has been the most appropriate mode of expansion into foreign market for SMEs due to lower risk and less resource commitment. The literature insists that future study should pay more attention on how SMEs improve export performance. Review of literature brings to the conclusion that innovativeness and learning orientation are pertinent in building the success of SMEs in export markets. Notwithstanding the existing investigation on the impact of innovativeness on performance, the results are inconclusive, reinforcing the need for investigation in the context of emerging market and SMEs. In addition, learning orientation composed of three dimensions namely managerial commitment, system perspective and openness and experimentation. Previous studies view learning orientation as summate of all three dimensions. Unlike previous studies, this study investigates the effect of each dimension on innovativeness. A conceptual framework was developed based on the resource-based view. Data were collected from small and medium business exporters in the manufacturing sector of an emerging market. A total of 220 respondents participated in this study. Data were analysed using structural equation modeling to test the hypotheses, and the results show that innovativeness is positively related to export performance. In addition, the findings reveal that managerial commitment is a function of innovativeness. System perspective, and openness and experimentation have no significant effect on innovativeness. Implications and limitations are also discussed in this study. Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 2018 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://journalarticle.ukm.my/20477/1/29771-102226-1-PB.pdf Md Daud Ismail, and Roshayati Abdul Hamid, and Zizah Che Senik, and Abdullah Sanusi Othman, and Noor Hasni Juhdi, (2018) SMEs’ export performance: the effect of learning orientation and innovativeness. Jurnal Pengurusan, 54 . pp. 3-14. ISSN 0127-2713 https://ejournal.ukm.my/pengurusan/issue/view/1154
institution Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia
building Tun Sri Lanang Library
collection Institutional Repository
continent Asia
country Malaysia
content_provider Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia
content_source UKM Journal Article Repository
url_provider http://journalarticle.ukm.my/
language English
description This study investigates the role of innovativeness and learning orientation on the internationalisation performance of small and medium entrepreneurial firms. Exporting has been the most appropriate mode of expansion into foreign market for SMEs due to lower risk and less resource commitment. The literature insists that future study should pay more attention on how SMEs improve export performance. Review of literature brings to the conclusion that innovativeness and learning orientation are pertinent in building the success of SMEs in export markets. Notwithstanding the existing investigation on the impact of innovativeness on performance, the results are inconclusive, reinforcing the need for investigation in the context of emerging market and SMEs. In addition, learning orientation composed of three dimensions namely managerial commitment, system perspective and openness and experimentation. Previous studies view learning orientation as summate of all three dimensions. Unlike previous studies, this study investigates the effect of each dimension on innovativeness. A conceptual framework was developed based on the resource-based view. Data were collected from small and medium business exporters in the manufacturing sector of an emerging market. A total of 220 respondents participated in this study. Data were analysed using structural equation modeling to test the hypotheses, and the results show that innovativeness is positively related to export performance. In addition, the findings reveal that managerial commitment is a function of innovativeness. System perspective, and openness and experimentation have no significant effect on innovativeness. Implications and limitations are also discussed in this study.
format Article
author Md Daud Ismail,
Roshayati Abdul Hamid,
Zizah Che Senik,
Abdullah Sanusi Othman,
Noor Hasni Juhdi,
spellingShingle Md Daud Ismail,
Roshayati Abdul Hamid,
Zizah Che Senik,
Abdullah Sanusi Othman,
Noor Hasni Juhdi,
SMEs’ export performance: the effect of learning orientation and innovativeness
author_facet Md Daud Ismail,
Roshayati Abdul Hamid,
Zizah Che Senik,
Abdullah Sanusi Othman,
Noor Hasni Juhdi,
author_sort Md Daud Ismail,
title SMEs’ export performance: the effect of learning orientation and innovativeness
title_short SMEs’ export performance: the effect of learning orientation and innovativeness
title_full SMEs’ export performance: the effect of learning orientation and innovativeness
title_fullStr SMEs’ export performance: the effect of learning orientation and innovativeness
title_full_unstemmed SMEs’ export performance: the effect of learning orientation and innovativeness
title_sort smes’ export performance: the effect of learning orientation and innovativeness
publisher Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia
publishDate 2018
url http://journalarticle.ukm.my/20477/1/29771-102226-1-PB.pdf
http://journalarticle.ukm.my/20477/
https://ejournal.ukm.my/pengurusan/issue/view/1154
_version_ 1751537467225276416
score 13.211869

Similar Items