Impact of Innovation Capabilities on Business Sustainability in Small and Medium Enterprises

Jalal Rajeh Hanaysha, Mohammed Emad Al-Shaikh, Shanmugan Joghee and Haitham M. Alzoubi

FIIB Business Review, 2022, vol. 11, issue 1, 67-78

Abstract: The rationale of this study was to investigate the effect of innovation types on business sustainability in the small and medium enterprises (SMEs). Quantitative approach was used for collecting the data and fulfilling the stated objective. Specifically, the data was collected from 171 employees in SMEs in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The analysis for the collected data was conducted using the partial least square approach (PLS-SEM). The findings showed that product innovation as well as service innovation have significant positive impacts on business sustainability. The results further confirmed that process innovation is vital for achieving business sustainability. Finally, the outcomes verified that marketing innovation has a significant impact on business sustainability. The results confirmed the significance of innovation capabilities in helping entrepreneurs in SMEs to sustain their businesses and improve their competitive strengths.

Keywords: Business sustainability; innovation; small and medium enterprises (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (7)

Downloads: (external link)
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/23197145211042232 (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:sae:fbbsrw:v:11:y:2022:i:1:p:67-78

DOI: 10.1177/23197145211042232

Access Statistics for this article

More articles in FIIB Business Review
Bibliographic data for series maintained by SAGE Publications ().