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Volume 3, Issue 1, April 2013, Pages 1 - 11
Technology Orientation, Innovation and Business Performance: A Study of Dubai SMEs
Authors
Yahya Al-Ansari, Marwan Altalib, Muna Sardoh
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Yahya Al-Ansari
Available Online 1 April 2013.
- DOI
- 10.2991/itmr.2013.3.1.1How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- technology orientation; innovation; business performance; small and medium-sized enterprises; United Arab Emirates.
- Abstract
This study examines how technology orientation interacts with innovation to affect business performance in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in an emerging market, namely Dubai in the United Arab Emirates. Survey data from 200 Dubai SMEs demonstrated, firstly, that technology orientation influenced innovation and did not have a significant and direct influence on business performance, and secondly, that innovation influenced business performance. Based on these findings, future research avenues are identified and managers of SMEs are advised to consider innovation as a mediating factor for technology orientation to achieve better business performance for their firms.
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- © 2013, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
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- This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
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TY - JOUR AU - Yahya Al-Ansari AU - Marwan Altalib AU - Muna Sardoh PY - 2013 DA - 2013/04/01 TI - Technology Orientation, Innovation and Business Performance: A Study of Dubai SMEs JO - The International Technology Management Review SP - 1 EP - 11 VL - 3 IS - 1 SN - 1835-5269 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/itmr.2013.3.1.1 DO - 10.2991/itmr.2013.3.1.1 ID - Al-Ansari2013 ER -