Technological Innovation, Sustainable Green Practices and SMEs Sustainable Performance in Times of Crisis (COVID-19 pandemic)

Mansour Naser Alraja (), Rabia Imran (), Basel M. Khashab () and Mahmood Shah ()
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Mansour Naser Alraja: Dhofar University
Rabia Imran: Dhofar University
Basel M. Khashab: Northumbria University
Mahmood Shah: Northumbria University - City Campus

Information Systems Frontiers, 2022, vol. 24, issue 4, No 3, 1105 pages

Abstract: Abstract COVID-19 restrictions significantly affected SMEs, which have faced many challenges to their sustainability within this fragile new environment. This study proposes a holistic framework of sustainable performance by interrelating factors showing robust associations to produce this effect' for achieving sustainable performance in SMEs, through integrating the Technology Organisation Environment (TOE) and Resource Based View (RBV) models, to test how sustainable green practices can process the TOE factors when affecting sustainable performance. The research focuses on SMEs with worldwide employees and involves data collected from a range of different employees belonging to four different managerial levels. The process incorporated the analysis of 669 questionnaires to test the proposed hypotheses using structural equation modeling. Findings suggest that, together, TOE factors represent crucial inputs for green practices such as green training, green performance appraisal, that, in turn, mean critical processes lead to sustainable performance (output). Additionally, the findings should also inspire SMEs to focus even more effort on internal technological and organisational factors and to encourage an eco-friendly culture that would demand stakeholders adopt a more positive environmental stance.

Keywords: Technological innovations; Green practices; Sustainable performance; Technology-organisation-environment; Resource based view (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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