The present study centered on the mediation of innovation and the moderation of collective organizational engagement in affecting human capital (a combination of skill and knowledge) on sustainable competitive advantage and further examined human capital, innovation, and collective organizational engagement impacts on sustainable competitive advantage. Subsequently, this study utilized a quantitative approach, engaging 270 sample frame SME units in Indonesia using a Likert scale questionnaire and examining it using SEM-PLS. The findings demonstrate that human capital positively and significantly impacted innovation and sustainable competitive advantage, indicating that a high level of business skill, business orientation, perception of risk, and know-how management enhances the organization’s innovation capability, creating distinctive, exceptional, and invaluable resources as core competencies of sustainable competitive advantage. This study confirms and advances the RBV theory and previous studies by examining intangible resources' mediating and moderating role, in which innovation contributes to mediating the effect of human capital on sustainable competitive advantage and collective organizational engagement reinforces (moderates) the impact of human capital on establishing sustainable competitive advantage. So, the results of this research illuminate the significance of human capital, innovation, and collective organizational engagement as the organization’s superior resources in manifesting sustainable competitive advantage.

The aim of this study is to analyze how to improve the competitive advantage and performance of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in North Sumatra through marketing entrepreneurship and architectural innovation capabilities. The type of research is quantitative research. The study focused on UMKM in North Sumatra who offered the following categories of products: handicrafts, food and beverages, coffee shops, bakeries, fashion, clothing, and services. The research population consists of all 84,758 UMKMs in North Sumatra. As for the sample number ranging between 100 and 200, or at least 5 times the number of variable indicators, when using Structural Equation Modeling (SEM). The entire sample size for stage 1 was 102 SME samples from Medan city. To analyze the research data, the study used SmartPLS (Partial Least Squares). The findings of this study show that market orientation (MO) has a negative and insignificant impact on SME performance from data processing and hypothesis testing results. Entrepreneurship Marketing Architecture Innovation Capacity (EMAIC) has a beneficial and significant impact on Competitive Advantage (CA). The ability of Enterprise Marketing Architectures (EMAC) to innovate has a significant and beneficial impact on their success. Entrepreneurship orientation (EO) provides tangible proof of SME success through competitive advantage (CA). Corporate orientation has no direct impact on SME performance through competitiveness (CA).

SMEs always require dynamic capabilities for enhancing their performance, therefore, this research aimed to examine the influence of strategic agility and supply chain agility on SMEs’ performance. Moreover, it investigated the moderation of innovation capability in the relationship between strategic agility and SMEs’ performance. Furthermore, the moderating role of innovation capabilities was identified in the relationship between supply chain agility and SMEs’ performance. The data for the research was gathered from 398 respondents, and Smart pls was used for analysis. The results highlighted that strategic agility and supply chain agility significantly influence SMEs’ performance. In addition, innovation capability can moderate the relationship between strategic agility and SMEs’ performance. Whereas innovation capability does not moderate the relationship between supply chain agility and SMEs’ performance.

The purpose of this study is to study the effect of market orientation and authenticity on innovation capability both directly and moderated by paradox mindset, organizational level. We also study the effect of motivation, individual level, on innovation capability both directly and moderated by a paradox mindset. The hypotheses proposed in this study are empirically tested using data from 580 respondents and 180 Batik SME organizations in Indonesia. To analyze the data, multilevel analysis with MPlus software is used. The results show that in a cross-level relationship, artisan motivation had a positive effect on innovation capability, and paradox mindset significantly moderated the relationship between market orientation and innovation capability. In addition, the authors also found a significant effect of authenticity on innovation capability. The study uses multilevel analysis to evaluate the mechanism of influence of artisan motivation (bottom-up) on innovation capability, and the moderating effect of paradox mindset in the Indonesian batik industry.

The purpose of this study is to explain how innovation capability influences business performance by mediating the effect of Covid-19 risk perception and entrepreneurial orientation. This study's population consists of MSMEs in Bali's tourism and creative industries. Purposive sampling was utilized to choose 90 managers of MSMEs in the tourist and creative economy sectors. Path Analysis with SEM-PLS was employed as the analytical approach. The findings revealed that the COVID-19 Risk Perception had a negative and significant impact on business performance, but the Entrepreneurship Orientation had a positive and significant impact. Furthermore, COVID-19 Risk Perception had a negative and significant impact on Innovation Capability; while the Entrepreneurship Orientation had a positive and significant effect on Innovation Capability; and Innovation Capability had a positive and significant impact on business performance. In addition, Innovation Capability was able to mediate the influence of COVID-19 Risk Perception and Entrepreneurship Orientation on business performance. Therefore, it is important for MSMEs in the tourism and creative economy sectors in Bali to improve their Entrepreneurship Orientation so that they are able to build higher innovation capabilities in order to improve business performance in facing the risks of the COVID-19 pandemic.

This study aims to develop a measurement scale for Supply Chain Integration (SCI) and Firm Performance (FP) in Jordanian SMEs. The study instrument was developed based on the previous studies and the survey included 284 companies in Jordan. A sample of 263 responses were used for exploratory analysis. Results show that the 46-item instrument was loaded on four factors. During this phase, the measurement scale was purified to 36 items, and characterized with a high degree of reliability. The results were confirmed using confirmatory factor analysis and showed that the 36-item measurement model met the empirical requirements namely, convergent, construct, and discriminant validity. The fitness indicators test for the model shows that it is applicable in SMEs companies’ environment in Jordan. The study presented implications for decision-makers in SMEs companies. The limitation of this study was presented which were relied on to develop directions for future research.

Creative industry has high contribution to the national economy. Some literature shows that creative industry does not highlight some important aspects such as knowledge sharing, absorptive capacity, and ambidexterity. The aim of this study is to analyze the relationship between knowledge sharing, absorptive capacity, ambidexterity, innovation capability and company's quality performance. This study uses mixed methods with the results of empirical study through the distribution of questionnaires to 150 business people in the creative industry and combined by interview result of creative industry entrepreneurs. The result shows that knowledge sharing had a positive and significant relationship with absorptive capacity and ambidexterity. While ambidexterity and absorptive capacity had positive and significant relationships with innovation capability and innovation capability had a positive and significant relationship with the company's quality performance. The results of this study are expected to help business people in the creative industry improve their quality performance through increased knowledge sharing, absorptive capacity, ambidexterity, and innovation capability.

Industry 4.0 drives enterprises to transform their capabilities especially in innovation and their capabilities to adapt with dynamic market. The capabilities can be fostered when the leader is oriented towards digital technology and market orientation. The role of digital leadership has gained attention for studies to develop innovation and dynamic capabilities based on market orientation. Studies have been conducted on dynamic capabilities with focus on the strategy, management and economic literature including the understanding of its driving key to success. However, the study on the role of digital leadership on the development of dynamic capability based on innovation capability and market orientation has not been intensively discussed. It is argued that the development of dynamic capability and innovation capability is strongly driven from a combination of digital leadership and market orientation. Data in this study is taken from a survey conducted on 88 Indonesian telecom-munication firms as a unit for analyses. The results show that digital leadership had a strong direct and indirect relationship with dynamic capability, however the strong path in developing capability is determined from the development of innovation capability that is driven from digital leadership based on market orientation. The finding reinforces the role of digital leadership as a critical influence on development of dynamic capability. Future studies are suggested to extend the research by exploring the research model to elaborate more on the impact of collaboration, leveraging a larger sample size and better statistical tools. A longitudinal study on the companies that implement the transformation based on dynamic capabilities is also recommended for future studies.

The small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) play an important role on the growth of the econ-omies of developing countries. In Pakistan, SMEs hold about 90 percent of the total businesses in-cluding the textile industry. The performance of SMEs in the textile industry is influenced by sev-eral factors including the internal capabilities of the firms. Hence the primary objective of the study is to examine the relationship between the internal capabilities namely Innovation Capability, Absorptive Capacity and SMEs Performance among textile firms in Pakistan. The study is conducted using quantitative research. There are 377 questionnaires distributed among textiles SMEs of Pakistan and they were analyzed using some statistical tests. The results reveal that innovation capability and absorptive capacity influenced the performance of SMEs, positively.

This study tried to explain the effect of digital marketing, supply chain integration, and innovation capabilities in increasing competitiveness and creative industries performance. There were three creative industry business sectors as units of analysis, namely culinary, craft and fashion sectors. A quantitative approach was used through a survey of 163 creative industries located in five regions i.e.: Makassar City, ParePare City, Wajo Regency, Tana Toraja Regency and North Toraja Regency. While respondents were business owners, managers, and supervisors. Descriptive statistics, and structural equation modelling as a method of analysis. Results showed that digital marketing and integrated supply chain significantly influences competitiveness as well as creative industry performance. Meanwhile, innovation capability significantly influences competitiveness, but not significantly on creative industry performance. This study also proved that competitiveness significantly affected creative industry performance. In addition, this study also confirmed that competitiveness mediated partially on effect digital marketing and integrated supply chain toward business performance and mediated fully on effect innovation capability toward business performance, primarily in the context of creative industry development.