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Dynamiques d'innovation dans les PME moyenne et basse technologie : exploration par le locus de contrôle des dirigeants et la capacité d'expérimentation
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Glaisner, Johan |
| Copyright Year | 2011 |
| Abstract | This research focus on the LMT SMEs. We developed a heuristic framework linking the manager’s locus of control, experimentation capacity and company performance. A survey conducted on West of France industrial SMEs returned 98 exploitable questionnaires. The analysis of the data allowed the construction of two typologies. The first one, founded on the locus of control highlighted three groups of individuals: the externals, the unspecified and the internals. The identification of an intermediary class, the unspecified, is an important contribution. The unspecified profile is not closely associated with variables describing the capacity for experimentation and performance. This highlights that only the individuals with a strong determined locus of control affect (positively for internals and negatively for externals) experimentation capacity and company performance. The second typology founded on the experimentation capacity also reveals three groups : the isolated, the relational actors and the experimenters. No significant association exists between the isolated group, who do not experiment and the organisation’s performance. The relational actors develop collaborative activities but in the absence of an internal development dynamic of competences, the results are judged as being not as good as those of competitors. The experimenters associate collaborative work, the development of competences and the in-house formalisation of knowledge. They obtain greater technological specificity. The acknowledgement of an association between profiles suggests that the experimentation capacity plays a mediatory role between the locus of control and the performance of SMEs. |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://www.institutmaupertuis.fr/upload/actualite/fichier/154fichier1.pdf |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
