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Interorganisational Collaboration For Innovation Improvement In Manufacturing Firms’S: The Mediating Role Of Social Performance

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  • USAMA AWAN

    (Industrial Engineering and Management, Lappeenranta-Lahti University of Technology, Lappeenranta, Finland)

  • ROBERT SROUFE

    (#x2020;Donahue Graduate School of Business, Duquesne University, 820 Rockwell Hall, 600 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA, USA)

Abstract

The impact of collaboration on innovation performance has been investigated in many studies. This study provides a unique view on innovation performance by exploring the mediating role of social performance between collaboration and innovation performance. For this, a structural model was tested through an empirical investigation with partial least squares structural equation modelling (PLS-SEM) using a sample made up of 239 export manufacturing firms. The results of the empirical study show that social performance appears to be a necessary condition for innovation performance. Our findings confirm the great potential of addressing social concern increasingly drive innovation performance. The next decade is likely to be a period of rapidly expanding social performance practices in the manufacturing firms. The managers could foster sustainable innovation by collaborating customers and enhance their firm social performance.

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  • Usama Awan & Robert Sroufe, 2019. "Interorganisational Collaboration For Innovation Improvement In Manufacturing Firms’S: The Mediating Role Of Social Performance," International Journal of Innovation Management (ijim), World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., vol. 24(05), pages 1-23, August.
    • Handle: RePEc:wsi:ijimxx:v:24:y:2019:i:05:n:s1363919620500498
    DOI: 10.1142/S1363919620500498
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    1. Pedro R. Palos-Sánchez & Pedro Baena-Luna & Mercedes García-Ordaz & Francisco J. Martínez-López, 2023. "Digital Transformation and Local Government Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic: An Assessment of Its Impact on the Sustainable Development Goals," SAGE Open, , vol. 13(2), pages 21582440231, April.
    2. Usama Awan & Amira Khattak & Sajeela Rabbani & Amandeep Dhir, 2020. "Buyer-Driven Knowledge Transfer Activities to Enhance Organizational Sustainability of Suppliers," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 12(7), pages 1-14, April.
    3. María del Carmen Galera-Quiles & Laura Piedra-Muñoz & Emilio Galdeano-Gómez & Angel Carreño-Ortega, 2021. "A Review of Eco-Innovations and Exports Interrelationship, with Special Reference to International Agrifood Supply Chains," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 13(3), pages 1-21, January.

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