The Key Impact of Management Modes for Innovation in SMEs
基于全球南方755家中小企业的问卷数据，研究发现创造力、风险承担和绩效管理对运营创新有显著正向影响，并探讨了探索与利用创新的互动，为管理者提升创新绩效提供参考。
This study assists in obtaining a better knowledge of managerial and organizational factors favoring different types of innovation, highlighting the critical role of creativity, risk-taking, and performance management for operational innovation. Also, this study aims to simultaneously investigate interactions of exploration and exploitation innovation to show how managers and organizations are usually treated in exploration and exploitation innovation. A sample of 755 valid questionnaires from small and mid-size enterprises (SMEs) from diverse firms in the global south were employed and analyzed using the partial least square structural equation model to examine the proposed research model and assumptions. This study shows that creativity, risk-taking, and performance management are positively and significantly affect operational innovation in global south SMEs. From a strategic point of view, our findings demonstrate that SMEs must create innovation in order to maintain their <italic xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">performance</i> . Managers of SMEs would be aware of the influence of various types of innovation on various aspects of business performance, such as marketing, operations, and finance. On a management level, the research findings assist SMEs in achieving high performance levels with their innovation projects. In addition, this research helps readers to develop a better knowledge of how organizations combine operating innovations and exploration.