The relationship between technological capability and innovative SMEs
Rapid changes in market condition, seen small and medium enterprises (SMEs) give major impact to Malaysian economy because it has provided a great contribution to the economy. Despite the importance of SMEs and the existence of government support from the various ministries and agencies, most...
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| Format: | Thesis |
| Language: | English English English |
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2020
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| Summary: | Rapid changes in market condition, seen small and medium enterprises (SMEs) give
major impact to Malaysian economy because it has provided a great contribution to
the economy. Despite the importance of SMEs and the existence of government
support from the various ministries and agencies, most literature indicated that SMEs
are still having a lot of challenges that hinder their development. This research
suggests the embracing of technological capability as an approach to enhance SMEs
competitiveness. The objectives of this research are to identify the practices of
technological capabilities among innovative SMEs in Malaysia and to investigate the
relationship between technological capability and entrepreneurial orientation. The
research adapted survey research design using questionnaire to obtain the
quantitative data and simple random sampling was used to select the respondents.
There are 51 respondents with 86% of response rate companies which are Malaysian
innovative SMEs and listed under MTDC incubator programme. The data was
analysed using IBM SPSS Software. Descriptive analysis, correlation and regression
analytical techniques were used in analysing the research data. The findings
indicated that the average mean score for the parameters of technological capability
is at high level. This indicates that innovative SMEs that participated in this research
have successfully practiced technological capability in their organization. The result
of the hypothesis testing show an inter-item correlation that depicts positive
correlation with significant relationship between innovation capability and
investment capability to entrepreneurial orientation. However, there are no
correlation exists between production capability with entrepreneurial orientation.
This result indicate that SME entrepreneurs should understand and be aware of the
importance of both organizational context and behavioural complexity in developing
firm related capabilities in order to achieve the desired level of manufacturing
flexibility thus boost their production more efficiently and effectively. Overall, firms
need to perform an internal strategic and coherent strategy commensurate with the
expected environment to get better performance. |
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