Organisational capabilities and small and medium sized firms’ attainment of innovation outcomes: the moderating roles of exports and formal business networks

Purpose The authors examine the influence of planning and execution capability (PEC) operational improvement (OIC) on small-and-medium-sized firms’ (SMEs) attainment different innovation outcomes under conditions exports formal business networks, based capability-based perspective organisational learning literature. Design/methodology/approach analyse time-series data about UK SMEs, extracted from 2015 2016 Longitudinal Small Business Surveys (LSBS). Findings failed to find any direct effects PEC OIC product outcomes. However, discovered that supports generation process outputs more strongly than PEC. Additionally, networks provide SMEs with opportunities. limited support amplify beneficial effect networks. On other hand, strengthen exports. As a result, reduce weaken Originality/value distinguish between two types capabilities – their impact in achieving also identify SMEs’ involvement as important boundary for such effects. xD; xA;