Innovative characteristics of small manufacturing firms
Innovative characteristics of small manufacturing firms
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小型制造企业的创新特征
DOI：
10.1108/14626000610680253
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发表时间：
2006
影响因子：
4.6
通讯作者：
J. Tann
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文献类型：
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作者：
S. Laforet;J. Tann
– 本文的目的有两个：一是关注特定行业——制造业。针对最近的批评，中小型企业（SME）的研究不针对特定部门/行业，因此对这些公司的建议过于笼统，没有任何特别的帮助。第二，该研究从企业的三个要素（产品、流程和工作方式）之间的相互关系来探讨创新管理，这在文献中经常被单独探讨。同样，建立了创新的定义，并采用了公司创新的系统方法。 – 对 1000 家西米德兰兹制造业中小企业 (SMME) 进行了调查。使用十个指标来衡量公司的创新能力。在产品创新管理、流程和工作组织方面，排名前 20% 的公司与排名后 80% 的公司进行了比较。对两组公司的反应方式进行了比较。进行 T 检验以根据结果得出一些结论。采用判别分析来确定区分创新型企业较多和较少的因素。 – 结果显示，制造业的中小企业与其他行业的中小企业相似。 SMME 创新的驱动力包括：市场预期、以客户为中心以及 CEO/所有者对 NPD、流程和新工作方式的承诺。创新是业务战略的一部分并且以目标为导向。然而，中小企业的创新更多地基于开发新的工作方式，而不是新产品创新。在创新程度较高和较低的公司中，系统/技术和流程创新的使用并不统一。中小型企业的主要制约因素是客户依赖、通过培训获取技能和知识、不良的学习态度和网络，因为它们具有孤立和自主的传统。 – 本文提供了有关小型制造企业创新管理的有用信息。
– The purpose of the paper is two‐fold: one, to focus on a specific industry – the manufacturing industry. In response to recent criticisms research in small to medium‐sized enterprises (SME) is not sector/industry‐specific, consequently the advice for these companies was too general and not of any particular help. Two, the research addresses innovation management in terms of the interrelationship among the three elements of a business: product, process and ways of working, which were often explored in isolation in the literature. Similarly, a definition of innovation was established and a systematic approach to company innovativeness was adopted., – A survey of 1000 West‐Midlands‐based manufacturing SMEs (SMMEs) was conducted. Ten indicators were used to measure company innovativeness. The top 20 per cent firms were compared with bottom 80 per cent firms in terms of product innovation management, process and work organisation. Means of responses were compared for two sets of companies. T‐tests were performed to draw some conclusions on the results. Discriminant analysis was used to determine the factors distinguishing more and less innovative companies., – The results showed SMEs in the manufacturing industry are similar to SMEs in other industries. The drivers of SMME innovativeness were: market anticipation, customer focus and commitment of CEO/owners in NPD, processes and new ways of working. Innovation was part of the business strategy and goal‐oriented. However, innovation in SMME was based more around developing new ways of working than new product innovations. The use of systems/technology and process innovation was not uniform amongst more and less innovative companies. The main constraints of SMMEs were customer dependency, skills and knowledge acquisition through training, poor learning attitude and networking because of their tradition of being insular and autonomous., – The paper provides useful information on innovation management in small manufacturing firms.