- Title
- Exploring the interrelationship amongst business model, technology and innovation and their impact on organization performance - the cases of entrepreneurial high technology small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) in Hong Kong
- Creator
- Chik, Kwok On
- Resource Type
- thesis
- Date
- 2016
- Description
- Professional Doctorate - Doctor of Business Administration (DBA)
- Description
- Entrepreneurial small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) perform an irreplaceably pivotal role in business research, the creation and commercialisation of knowledge and technology and the economic growth of a region. They are facing challenges including (1) increasingly vigorous competition and (2) determining how to use technology and innovation to enhance their capabilities in the global market. This qualitative study examines, explores and analyses the business model designs of high-tech SMEs and how SMEs exploit their business models along with technology and innovation. It also considers the combined effects of technology, innovation and business models on firm performance. This study fills a potential gap in the technology, innovation, business model and entrepreneurial SME literature. Scholars have identified two major kinds of business model design implemented by firms: efficiency- and novelty-centred designs. However, ‘novelty’ is a collective term that cannot explain exactly which types of business model design are classified as novelty centred, especially in the high-tech sector. Limited research has been conducted in this area. A multiple-case-study design is implemented to address the research questions posed by this study. The firms that participated in this study were selected via the purposive sampling method. They are technology-intensive SMEs that adopt business models specifically designed to commercialise their products. This study is delimited to the technology, innovation and business models implemented and managed by the participating firms as explored through the firms’ organisational capabilities. This study identifies a framework, with which four basic but related business model designs are found in entrepreneurial high-tech SMEs. These four designs are Focus business model design, Complementary business model design, Integrated-innovation business model design and E-commerce platform business model design. These designs work together with a firm’s technology and innovation to influence the commercialization of its value proposition, value capture and firm performance. This study also informs scholars and practitioners of the potential ways (the extension paths and business model portfolio of business model designs) of how entrepreneurial high-tech SMEs can take to become competitive and to grow.
- Subject
- business model; innovation; technology; organization performance; entrepreneur; small and medium sized firms
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1312894
- Identifier
- uon:22480
- Rights
- Copyright 2016 Kwok On Chik
- Language
- eng
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