Technology Orientation, Innovation and Business Performance: A Study of Dubai SMEs

environmental orientation as a determinant of innovation performance in young smes

the popular press, as well as most academic literature, claims that innovation activities areinherently linked to higher company performance. successful innovations usually increase the firm’s marketscope or reduce costs, helping firms to obtain superior benefits. therefore, most innovations are developedwith those objectives in mind. environmental orientation is defined as the managerial recog...

EU SMEs and E-Business Innovation

Although motivating electronic business (e-business) adoption and implemention by smalland medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) is endorsed by policies and initiatives introduced by the European Union (EU), a number of challenges arise as the result of a limited conceptual understanding of the relationship between SMEs and information and communication technologies (ICTs). Relatively little is known...

Creative Business Model Innovation for Globalizing SMEs

Customer Orientation and Business Performance of Financial Institution: A Case Study of Eastern Hararghe Commercial Bank of Ethiopia

The main objective of the paper is to investigate customer treatment, financial efficiency and supporting customer services with modern banking technology in financial institutions. The customer orientation and business performance of financial institutions targets customer services to maintain long term mutual relationships. The findings of the study has direct practical relevance for the bank...

The Review of SMEs Open Innovation Performance

Open innovation has provided more opportunities and broader space for Smalland Mediumsized Enterprises (SMEs for short) in innovative practices, but also brought new challenges to SMEs. Focusing on the performance of SMEs in open innovation, this paper conducts a literature commentary from several aspects including innovation performance, constraints, impact and strategy of improving open innov...