Women-led SMEs: Innovation and collaboration performance?
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2020
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Scholars and practitioners recognize the importance of innovation and collaboration for enhancing business performance.Gender diversity also influences business performance, either directly or indirectly. Gender diversity in a board of directors
improves companies’ innovative performance and, consequently, their performance. However, research on innovation in women-led small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) is limited, which significantly restricts our understanding of the
innovation–performance relationship in such businesses. Thus,
in this study, using a sample of 503 women-led SMEs, we show
that innovation is not a determinant of businesswomen’s business performance. Our study provides insights into how women-led SMEs deciding to innovate or collaborate are
unable to appropriate the benefits suggested in the literature.
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María José Ibáñez, Maribel Guerrero & Raj V. Mahto (2020) Women-led SMEs: Innovation and collaboration → performance?, Journal of the International Council for Small Business, 1:3-4, 111-117, DOI: 10.1080/26437015.2020.1850155
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Women CEO;, SME, innovation, collaborative, innovation, firm, performance, emerging, economies