Open AccessFiring on all cylinders: Configuring information technology around the constituents of corporate entrepreneurship to outperform in SME sector
Author(s) -
Nabeel Rehman,
Asif Mahmood,
Amir Ikram,
Ayyaz Ahmad
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
plos one
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.99
H-Index - 332
ISSN - 1932-6203
DOI - 10.1371/journal.pone.0256539
Subject(s) - entrepreneurship , structural equation modeling , business , industrial organization , sample (material) , manufacturing sector , small and medium sized enterprises , knowledge management , dynamic capabilities , marketing , computer science , economics , international economics , chemistry , finance , chromatography , machine learning
This study has examined how small and medium enterprises (SMEs) may enhance their performance under different settings of information technology (IT) capabilities and corporate entrepreneurship (CE). Established on the dynamic capability view, the researchers have analyzed the connections between IT capabilities and CE, in addition to the performance results of SMEs. The research has explored these novel relationships by utilizing partial least square-structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM) with a data sample of 447 SMEs of the manufacturing sector in Pakistan. The findings present that IT capabilities positively influence the market and financial performance of SMEs through the mediating role of CE dimensions. The study uniquely determines the mediating role of dimensional effects of corporate entrepreneurship between IT capabilities and performance outcomes of firms. Thus, the study would enable the management of SMEs to realize the potential of IT-related CE dimensions and their use to improve firms’ performance.