Innovation and Performance in Latin-American Small Family Firms

Gonzalo Maldonado-Guzmán (), José Trinidad Marín-Aguilar () and Marisela García-Vidales ()

Asian Economic and Financial Review, 2018, vol. 8, issue 7, 986-998

Abstract: The study of innovation in family firms is gaining more and more interest among researchers and academics. Although it is a relatively recent issue in the literature, there is not enough theoretical and empirical evidence of the existing relationship with other constructs, such as the case of business performance. Therefore, using a sample of 1,400 family small businesses from 20 Latin American countries and applying a structural equations modeling of second order, which allows to know in greater depth the relationship between innovation and business performance. The fundamental objective of this empirical study is to investigate the relationship between innovation and business performance in family small business in Latin America. The results indicate that the innovation has a significant positive effect on the business performance of Latin American family small business.

Keywords: Technological innovation; Infrastructure; Industrial growth; ARDL; Granger causality; Bangladesh. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (3)

Downloads: (external link)
https://archive.aessweb.com/index.php/5002/article/view/1724/2572 (application/pdf)
https://archive.aessweb.com/index.php/5002/article/view/1724/3730 (text/html)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:asi:aeafrj:v:8:y:2018:i:7:p:986-998:id:1724

Access Statistics for this article

More articles in Asian Economic and Financial Review from Asian Economic and Social Society
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Robert Allen ().