TY - JOUR
T1 - Network cooperation and economic performance of SMEs: Direct and mediating impacts of innovation and internationalisation
AU - Singh, Rashmeet
AU - Chandrashekar, Deepak
AU - Subrahmanya Mungila Hillemane, Bala
AU - Sukumar, Arun
AU - Jafari-Sadeghi, Vahid
N1 - © 2022 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Inc. This is an open access article under the CC BY license 4.0
PY - 2022/9
Y1 - 2022/9
N2 - Small firms’ performance has been recognised as an important topic for researchers dealing with the topics of internationalisation and innovation. Literature has examined the individual influence of network cooperation, innovation and internationalisation on firm performance. However, there is an absence of research to explore the coherent relationship between network linkages, innovation performance, internationalisation performance and its cumulative influence on economic performance. That is, this research examines the mediating roles of innovation and internationalisation between network cooperation and firm performance. Based on the sample of 117 exporting Indian SMEs and using structural equation modelling, the results note that indirect effects produced by customers and Research and Development (R&D) organisations via innovation performance explain a higher proportion of their total effect on the economic performance of SMEs. Conversely, the relationship between three network stakeholders, viz. customers, government agencies and R&D organisations, and economic performance are mediated by the internationalisation performance of SMEs.
AB - Small firms’ performance has been recognised as an important topic for researchers dealing with the topics of internationalisation and innovation. Literature has examined the individual influence of network cooperation, innovation and internationalisation on firm performance. However, there is an absence of research to explore the coherent relationship between network linkages, innovation performance, internationalisation performance and its cumulative influence on economic performance. That is, this research examines the mediating roles of innovation and internationalisation between network cooperation and firm performance. Based on the sample of 117 exporting Indian SMEs and using structural equation modelling, the results note that indirect effects produced by customers and Research and Development (R&D) organisations via innovation performance explain a higher proportion of their total effect on the economic performance of SMEs. Conversely, the relationship between three network stakeholders, viz. customers, government agencies and R&D organisations, and economic performance are mediated by the internationalisation performance of SMEs.
KW - Economic performance
KW - Innovation
KW - Internationalisation
KW - Network cooperation
KW - SMEs
UR - https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0148296322003721?via%3Dihub
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U2 - 10.1016/j.jbusres.2022.04.032
DO - 10.1016/j.jbusres.2022.04.032
M3 - Article
SN - 0148-2963
VL - 148
SP - 116
EP - 130
JO - Journal of Business Research
JF - Journal of Business Research
ER -