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India's per capita GDP from 1820 to 2015 Sources: Tables of Angus Maddison (2003). The per capita GDP over various years and estimate is retrieved from the IMF (2017); OECD (2017). (accessed on 5 June 2017)
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The objective of this essay is to present a different approach on the Porter’s five forces model and to make the reader aware of the topic of industrial competence and e-commerce in Mexico. In this essay, the method used is the analytic descriptive. First, the current situation in which SMEs in Mexico are related to e-commerce is exposed, since thi...
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The advent of electronic commerce (e-commerce) has resulted in significant benefits for businesses, with e-commerce becoming indispensable for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) all over the world. E-commerce is considered an appropriate technique for selling, marketing & integrating online services that can play a significant role in determ...
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... The results revealed that top management support (TMS) and competitive pressure (CP) is playing a significant role in the usage of e-commerce in Pakistani SMEs, and findings are consistent with the previous studies [29,32,96,118,119]. Thus, the present study considers the use of e-commerce as a strategic decision to improve Pakistani SMEs' overall performance. ...
The study investigates the mediating role of e-commerce through organizational and environmental factors with small and medium enterprises (SMEs) performance. The study follows a cross-sectional survey method approach. The study's theoretical foundation is based on the resource-based view (RBV) and diffusion of innovation (DOI) theory. The current research identifies four manufacturing SMEs' strata based on participation in the country's exports using a stratified proportional random sampling technique. The research questionnaires were distributed among 700 top and middle-level managers of manufacturing SMEs. The data were analyzed by applying partial least square structural equational modeling (PLS-SEM) to examine the relationship between the exogenous, mediator, and endogenous variables. The finding reveals that top management support and competitive pressure have a significant positive impact on the use of e-commerce direct and mediation. At the same time, the adoption cost and government support have an insignificant impact on e-commerce usage. This study results can be used to enhance the use of e-commerce in Pakistan's manufacturing SMEs to improve the country's overall exports.
El comercio electrónico ha sido propuesto como una alternativa al comercio tradicional presencial, especialmente a la vista de la pandemia de Covid 19. Este reporte presenta los resultados de un estudio realizado en mercados populares de la ciudad de Celaya (México). Se realizó una encuesta a 250 clientes de comercios tradicional al detallista, utilizando como referencia el modelo de Peña-Nieto basado en los modelos de aceptación de la tecnología de amplia utilización en el campo hasta la fecha, orientado hacia la intención de compra en línea. Los resultados muestran que el modelo propuesto influye de manera significativa y conjunta en sus siete dimensiones como predictores de la intención de uso. De manera individual las dimensiones de actitudes y auto eficacia presentan significancia estadística como predictores de la intención de compra en línea. El estudio permite determinar las variables que impactan en la decisión de compra de los usuarios, aún y cuando no tengan experiencia previa en comercio electrónico. El estudio permite comprobar que los clientes de bajo ingreso, como lo representa este tipo de mercados, pueden ser propensos a compras en línea como alternativa al comercio tradicional
Research defines coopetition as a mix of cooperation and competition among firms oriented towards producing innovation, and generating net value added or economic benefit. The importance of studying the determinants of firms’ innovative behaviour, based on those coopetition relationships, has warranted increasing attention from scholars. However, the role played by micro-, small-, and medium-sized enterprises in this process have been neglected, even as research on economic
geography, clusters, entrepreneurship, and innovation, has become pre-eminent. This represents an opportunity for scholars, policymakers, entrepreneurs, and practitioners to discuss the importance of micro-, small-, and medium-sized enterprises in determining the innovative behaviour of government, industry, higher education institutions (HEIs), and citizens in environments that mix competition and cooperation.
Despite the importance of the institutional and network approaches explored in the literature, much remains unknown regarding the role played by the referred different types of enterprises in determining innovative and economic performance. Another gap found in the literature is concerning entrepreneurial and open innovative ecosystems. There is increasing literature suggesting reasons behind ecosystems emergence, but it fails to examine, in detail, the exact mechanisms behind it, namely, the role played by endogenous production factors (for example, human
capital, social or relational capital, organizational capital, and knowledge), using an organizational economics approach. This gap may be addressed by linking, for example, coopetition, innovative behaviour, clusters, or industrial districts. If agglomeration improves the quality of the match between government, firms, HEIs, and citizens, then clusters will ensure enduring productivity and sustainable competitive advantages.
The collection of 13 contributions is quite impressive, in the sense that congregates in the same volume several benchmarks of international practices of open innovation, revealing the importance of micro-, small-, and medium-sized firms for reinforcing the evolutionary innovation pathway undercut with established firms, public institutions, and civil society.
Research avenues are provided to scholars, policymakers and practitioners that are interested in moving forward with the open innovation paradigm, recovering the importance of the open debate devoted to the innovative nature of new entrepreneurial units, which are responsible for creating qualified work, innovations, and new specializations.
The adoption of e-commerce is essential in today’s dynamic business environment to optimize the overall firm performance of manufacturing SMEs. This research investigates the influence of environmental and technological factors to promote e-commerce adoption and subsequent firm performance in manufacturing SMEs. Technology usage for sustainable production is becoming a global phenomenon, though it seems less prevalent in emerging economies. Fewer studies address technology adoption issues to enhance corporate performance in Pakistani manufacturing SMEs. The present study adopted a resource-based view with the diffusion of innovation theory to formulate a research framework. We chose a stratified proportionate random sampling method to collect data by selecting four heterogeneous strata. Out of 800 distributed questionnaires, 368 top- and middle-level managers of textile, leather, sports, and surgical SMEs of Pakistan returned the questionnaire. This study employed PLS-SEM for empirical analysis. The results showed that both the technological factors’ relative advantage and technology readiness have a significant positive relationship with the use of e-commerce. However, environmental factors, i.e., competitive pressure, have an insignificant effect on e-commerce usage. Nevertheless, the government support has a significant positive effect on e-commerce usage in SMEs. Overall, e-commerce adoption depicts a positive association with firm performance.
