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Improving SME performance through organizational memory

Improving SME performance through organizational memory Specific research on the meaning of organizational memory (OM), including databases, for small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and their performance is limited. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the relationships between open-mindedness culture (OMC), OM, SME innovativeness and customer satisfaction.Design/methodology/approachFive hypotheses were formulated and tested using the partial least squares method. The survey data were collected from 120 Polish SMEs.FindingsA positive and significant relationship between OMC and OM was found. OM has both direct and indirect impacts on customer satisfaction through firms’ innovativeness. The results confirmed the correlation between firms’ innovativeness and customer satisfaction.Research limitations/implicationsThe focus on SMEs in a single country limits the generalizability of the results.Practical implicationsThe findings of this research can inform SME managers who are willing to improve operational performance. This study suggests that OMC is a prior stage in building, updating and using OM in the form of databases. Leveraging databases is a way to incrementally increase firms’ innovativeness and customer satisfaction.Originality/valueThis paper fills an important gap in the extant literature by empirically testing the relationship between OMC, OM, firms’ innovativeness and customer satisfaction. This study is the first ever to study these relationships within the context of SMEs. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of Organizational Change Management Emerald Publishing

Improving SME performance through organizational memory

Kmieciak, Roman
Journal of Organizational Change Management , Volume 32 (4): 19 – Sep 20, 2019
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Emerald Publishing
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0953-4814
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10.1108/jocm-01-2019-0003
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Abstract

Specific research on the meaning of organizational memory (OM), including databases, for small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and their performance is limited. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the relationships between open-mindedness culture (OMC), OM, SME innovativeness and customer satisfaction.Design/methodology/approachFive hypotheses were formulated and tested using the partial least squares method. The survey data were collected from 120 Polish SMEs.FindingsA positive and significant relationship between OMC and OM was found. OM has both direct and indirect impacts on customer satisfaction through firms’ innovativeness. The results confirmed the correlation between firms’ innovativeness and customer satisfaction.Research limitations/implicationsThe focus on SMEs in a single country limits the generalizability of the results.Practical implicationsThe findings of this research can inform SME managers who are willing to improve operational performance. This study suggests that OMC is a prior stage in building, updating and using OM in the form of databases. Leveraging databases is a way to incrementally increase firms’ innovativeness and customer satisfaction.Originality/valueThis paper fills an important gap in the extant literature by empirically testing the relationship between OMC, OM, firms’ innovativeness and customer satisfaction. This study is the first ever to study these relationships within the context of SMEs.

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Journal of Organizational Change Management – Emerald Publishing

Published: Sep 20, 2019

Keywords: Customer satisfaction; SMEs; Open-mindedness; Innovativeness; Organizational memory

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