THE EFFECTS OF ENTREPRENEURIAL ORIENTATION, HUMAN CAPITAL, AND ORGANIZATIONAL LEARNING CAPABILITY ON BUSINESS PERFORMANCE AMONG SMEs IN JORDAN

The role of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) has been acknowledged across the global. The contribution of SMEs towards gross domestic product (GDP) and economy of a country is very much undeniable. This highlights the importance of sustainability amidst the budding SMEs to penetra...

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Main Author:	BELAL MAHMOUD HUSSEIN ALWADI
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Language:	English
Subjects:	SMEs entrepreneurial gross domestic product (GDP) human capital
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spelling	my-umt-ir.-175812022-12-29T02:23:43Z THE EFFECTS OF ENTREPRENEURIAL ORIENTATION, HUMAN CAPITAL, AND ORGANIZATIONAL LEARNING CAPABILITY ON BUSINESS PERFORMANCE AMONG SMEs IN JORDAN BELAL MAHMOUD HUSSEIN ALWADI The role of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) has been acknowledged across the global. The contribution of SMEs towards gross domestic product (GDP) and economy of a country is very much undeniable. This highlights the importance of sustainability amidst the budding SMEs to penetrate the competitive global market. Hence, SMEs need to adopt and practice several essential characteristics to grow, compete, and sustain. As such, this study investigated the impacts of entrepreneurial orientation (EO), human capital (HC), and organizational learning capabilities (OLC) on business performance (BP) of SMEs established in Jordan. Jordan was selected as the sample area due to its interesting environment, which is stable but surrounded by neighbouring countries in crises, hence constriction in resources. The questionnaire survey method was adopted, as a set of questionnaires was distributed to 376 SMEs for this study purpose. The Partial Least Square-Structural Equation Modelling (PLS• SEM) approach was employed in this study for data analysis, after determining the reliability and validity of the dataset. As a result, all the seven hypotheses formulated for this study are accepted. The first five hypotheses reflect the direct relationships or EO-BP, HC-BP, EO-OLC, HC-OLC, and OLC-BP of SMEs, while the last two hypotheses are the mediating effect of OLC on the relationships of EO and HC with BP. All the variables displayed significantly positive correlations with BP of the studied SMEs and OLC, which served as a mediator, enhanced the BP of SMEs. The study implication for SMEs in Jordan highlights the need for the enterprises to adopt innovation and learning in order to further grow and perform exceptionally both in local and global markets. Besides, it was found that autonomy is significant among employees so that they have the freedom and time for innovative activities, thus enhancing BP. Customer satisfaction also needs to be a priority to sustain in the competitive market. Future studies are called to replicate the study in other varied setting to compare the outcomes in light of SMEs spread across the globe. Universiti Malaysia Terengganu 2020 Thesis en http://umt-ir.umt.edu.my:8080/handle/123456789/17581 http://umt-ir.umt.edu.my:8080/jspui/bitstream/123456789/17581/1/HD%202341%20.A4%202020%20-%20Extract.pdf 5ced2946910bb1bb78832b626e758a22 http://umt-ir.umt.edu.my:8080/jspui/bitstream/123456789/17581/2/HD%202341%20.A4%202020%20-%20Full%20Text.pdf ebb45de67a053fbf902b6d802aeba9db http://umt-ir.umt.edu.my:8080/jspui/bitstream/123456789/17581/3/license.txt 8a4605be74aa9ea9d79846c1fba20a33 SMEs entrepreneurial gross domestic product (GDP) human capital
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description	The role of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) has been acknowledged across the global. The contribution of SMEs towards gross domestic product (GDP) and economy of a country is very much undeniable. This highlights the importance of sustainability amidst the budding SMEs to penetrate the competitive global market. Hence, SMEs need to adopt and practice several essential characteristics to grow, compete, and sustain. As such, this study investigated the impacts of entrepreneurial orientation (EO), human capital (HC), and organizational learning capabilities (OLC) on business performance (BP) of SMEs established in Jordan. Jordan was selected as the sample area due to its interesting environment, which is stable but surrounded by neighbouring countries in crises, hence constriction in resources. The questionnaire survey method was adopted, as a set of questionnaires was distributed to 376 SMEs for this study purpose. The Partial Least Square-Structural Equation Modelling (PLS• SEM) approach was employed in this study for data analysis, after determining the reliability and validity of the dataset. As a result, all the seven hypotheses formulated for this study are accepted. The first five hypotheses reflect the direct relationships or EO-BP, HC-BP, EO-OLC, HC-OLC, and OLC-BP of SMEs, while the last two hypotheses are the mediating effect of OLC on the relationships of EO and HC with BP. All the variables displayed significantly positive correlations with BP of the studied SMEs and OLC, which served as a mediator, enhanced the BP of SMEs. The study implication for SMEs in Jordan highlights the need for the enterprises to adopt innovation and learning in order to further grow and perform exceptionally both in local and global markets. Besides, it was found that autonomy is significant among employees so that they have the freedom and time for innovative activities, thus enhancing BP. Customer satisfaction also needs to be a priority to sustain in the competitive market. Future studies are called to replicate the study in other varied setting to compare the outcomes in light of SMEs spread across the globe.
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title	THE EFFECTS OF ENTREPRENEURIAL ORIENTATION, HUMAN CAPITAL, AND ORGANIZATIONAL LEARNING CAPABILITY ON BUSINESS PERFORMANCE AMONG SMEs IN JORDAN
title_short	THE EFFECTS OF ENTREPRENEURIAL ORIENTATION, HUMAN CAPITAL, AND ORGANIZATIONAL LEARNING CAPABILITY ON BUSINESS PERFORMANCE AMONG SMEs IN JORDAN
title_full	THE EFFECTS OF ENTREPRENEURIAL ORIENTATION, HUMAN CAPITAL, AND ORGANIZATIONAL LEARNING CAPABILITY ON BUSINESS PERFORMANCE AMONG SMEs IN JORDAN
title_fullStr	THE EFFECTS OF ENTREPRENEURIAL ORIENTATION, HUMAN CAPITAL, AND ORGANIZATIONAL LEARNING CAPABILITY ON BUSINESS PERFORMANCE AMONG SMEs IN JORDAN
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title_sort	effects of entrepreneurial orientation, human capital, and organizational learning capability on business performance among smes in jordan
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