Technological innovation, organizational innovation and international performance of SMEs: The moderating role of domestic institutional environment

Francis Donbesuur, George Oppong Appiagyei Ampong, Diana Owusu-Yirenkyi and Irene Chu

Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 2020, vol. 161, issue C

Abstract: Despite the growing research on the performance implications of technological and organizational innovation, our understanding of how they impact SMEs’ international performance is limited. Drawing from the dynamic capability and the institutional theories, this study argues that technological and organizational innovation has a synergistic effect on international performance and that this effect is contingent on unique domestic institutional factors. We test this model using structural equation modeling on a sample of 204 internationalized SMEs operating in Ghana. The findings from the analysis show that high levels of organizational and technological innovation jointly improve SMEs’ international performance. In addition, the results show that institutional environment specificity and institutional environment enforceability enhance the complementary effect of organizational and technological innovation on the international performance of SMEs. The theoretical and managerial implications of the findings are discussed.

Keywords: Organizational innovation; Technological innovation; Institutional environment; International performance; Ghana; sub-Saharan Africa (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1016/j.techfore.2020.120252

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