The study aims to develop concepts originating through empirical research models to build superior competitiveness and optimal performance achievement. Therefore, to bridge these goals, the study addresses several indicators/items as a novelty, namely, entrepreneurship insight factors, market orientation, knowledge-sharing, innovation, managerial capability, product strategy, process and service improvement, resources capability to improve performance and increase competitiveness by empirical model direct, mediating and indirect effect. The total sample in this study is 497 eligible SMEs that partner with go-food in Makassar City. All research samples are the owner or the person in charge of the business; the data collection period is from May to December 2019. Data are collecting using a survey with 64 construct questions, summarized in seven manifest variables. The research method uses quantitative tools, with SMART-PLS as a statistical tool. This study develops sixteen hypotheses; all of the hypotheses are supported both directly, indirectly, and mediated. The study also found that the link based on CCT, RBV, and TAM Theory is the right choice of theories, as the foundation of this study was very reliable and valid. Indeed, all of the grounded methods have implications both in theory and its main application for the business in the online marketplace.

This study wants to test the nexus among resource orientation, market orientation, social network, and knowledge sharing toward organizational innovation, and the nexus between organizational innovation and MSMEs performance. Questionnaires and interviews are conducted with some MSMEs actors in Central Java Province, Indonesia, in Klaten Regency and Pekalongan City. These two areas have creative MSMEs, especially Batik MSMEs that have been very large and known worldwide. The sampling technique is done purposively with certain criteria for the respondents. The data analysis technique is done using Partial Least Square. This study provides recommendations about strategic practice and policy (resource and market), social network, and knowledge sharing in increasing organizational innovation, and the impact of organizational innovation toward MSMEs performance. It also offers a comprehensive model of the determinant factor of organizational innovation by considering the aspect of strategic orientation, social network, and knowledge sharing. Other unique aspects that are also important to consider are social network and the importance of knowledge sharing in improving MSMEs Performance. The respondents are still limited in two areas, namely, Pekalongan and Klaten, so it still cannot represent the whole population. These areas also have different orientation of production process approach, namely, synthetic and natural dyes.

Purpose: The purpose of this study is, in the situation where rapid response to the rapidly changing environment is required due to the development of the fourth industrial revolution such as artificial intelligence, virtual reality, and the internet of things, robotics, big data, additive manufacturing, bio-health, sharing economy and in the organizational culture aspiring toward the innovation of a major company, small business and a public institution, to analyze what influence a job-engagement and stress make, and what influence individual‟s self-efficacy as a moderator mediator makes, and to offer basic data for improving job-engagement and lowering job-stress. Research design, data, and methodology: For doing this, the literature and the empirical studies were combined. Deriving innovationoriented organizational culture as factors affecting the job engagement and job stress through the literature, and have established hypotheses to verify them. We have collected data of 281 from ex,ecutives and staff-members working in areas including major company, small business and officials (the central government, a local public service, the prosecution, the police, and school). And these data were analyzed by SPSS 23 version. Results: Based on these data, the results of analysis were as follows; First, the innovationoriented organizational culture which was recognized by organizational members had effect on job-stress. Second, the innovationoriented organizational culture which was recognized by organizational members influenced job-stress. Third, in the relationship between the innovation-oriented organizational culture and job-engagement, self-efficacy did not influenced job-engagement. Finally, in the relationship between the innovation-oriented organizational culture and job-stress, self-efficacy influenced job-stress. Conclusions: Innovation-oriented organizational culture places importance on the organization's adaptability and flexibility in the external environment, so companies need to establish an innovation-oriented organizational culture favorable to achieving survival and successful innovation, and to develop and disseminate programs of positive and continuous organizations to improve task enthusiasm, reduce task stress, and enhance organizational performance. In the future, it will be necessary to verify the effectiveness of various organizational culture types through comparative analysis with companies that actively maintain an innovation-oriented organizational culture (Google, Kakao, etc.) and companies that prefer hierarchy-oriented organizational culture, relationship-oriented organizational culture, and market-oriented organizational culture.

This study aims to provide empirical evidence on the causal relationship between bribery and firm innovation. To this end, we use a micro-dataset of small and medium firms in Vietnam surveyed in 2015. Given the binary nature of the dependent variable, a simple probit regression model is employed. However, as bribery variable is potentially endogenous, a simple probit regression may give biased estimates. We deal with the potential endogeneity by making use of the bivariate probit model. A property of the bivariate probit model is that it can produce efficient estimates of a typical probit model with endogenous binary explanatory variable. A Hausman-like likelihood ratio test is implemented following the estimation to test the existence of endogeneity. We find that bribery significantly undermines firm innovation. Also, firms run by household appear less innovative. The probability of innovation diminishes significantly if firm owners or managers have previous experience in firm products. As expected, larger firms seem to be more innovative. Exporters tend to be more innovative compared to non-exporters. Our findings provide support to the hypothesis that bribery is detrimental to firm innovation and, thus, innovation may be a mediating channel, through which, bribery impedes firm long-term performance.

This study examines and analyzes the effect of innovation on the price to book value mediated by managerial ownership in Indonesian companies. In order to achieve the goals and objectives, the company increases its value by increasing shareholders. Improving the welfare of shareholders can be done through investment and financial policies, and is reflected in share prices in the capital market. The higher the share price, the better the owner’s welfare, and the company’s value will also increase. The population of this study is the manufacturing companies – as many as 162 – listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange in 2012-2017. By using a purposive sampling method, 25 companies met the criteria for the sample. The data comes from the companies’ annual report taken from the Indonesia Stock Exchange website. The data is further analyzed using partial least square (PLS). The results of the study showed that innovation has a significant effect on price to book value. The companies with high marketing innovation produce high company performance as well. The companies get a commensurate reward from marketing innovation activities to carry out continuous marketing innovations. In addition, managerial ownership does not mediate the relationship between innovation and price to book value

With the continuous development of scientific algorithms for computer graphics, the new generation of procedural texture technology greatly accelerates the CG visual art creation and gradually replaces the bitmap texture workflow. The technology has not only realized the further integration of computer graphics technology and art creation, but also put forward new requirements for texture artist's knowledge structure. Meanwhile, the new workflow reduces the requirements for traditional painting skills and focuses more on logical thinking and basic programming skills. In the future, texture artists have to pay attention not only to the aesthetic and accomplishment of art, but also to the logical application of scientific algorithms.

The study aims to investigate the determinant factors in the organisation of a firm’s innovative activities, and the impact of innovation capability on firm’s performance of electronic firms in Ho Chi Minh city, Vietnam. How is the performance of electronic companies after delivering an innovation project? How will innovation capability affect firm’s performance in electronic companies? This study aims to seek the answer of these questions. We employ a Structural Equation Model and the PLS technique in order to validate the theoretical model proposed in this study. With observation of 374 valid firms, based on Cronbach’s Alpha analysis, EFA analysis, CFA analysis and SEM analysis, this study discovers 5 groups of factors including: (i) Institution factors; (ii) Attitude of leadership factors; (iii) Marketing factors; (iv) Technological resources factors; (v) Combination factors, which have direct impact on innovation capability of firms. There are 4 groups of factors that have positive impacts on financial performance of electronic firms, with descending order of importance as follows: (1) Attitude of leadership factors; (2) Quality of human resources factors; (3) Innovation capability; (4) Marketing activities factors. Research results are important implications for Government administrative agencies for business to consult and introduce effective support policies.

The paper proposes a knowledge innovation performance model by the dynamic data envelopment analysis with slacks-based measure approach for evaluating the effectiveness of 30 regional knowledge innovation activities in China from 2010 to 2016. In recent years, China has paid more attention to knowledge innovation activities, as central and local governments have pushed on with their innovation projects by lots of investment whatever the difficulties may be. Decision-maker is usually interested in judge its knowledge innovation performance relative to target benchmark by exploring whether one provincial administration region performs better among others and/or if the growth of economy will be benefited greatly by the knowledge innovation activities. To acquire the managerial insight about this issue from a comprehensively designed performance evaluation model, knowledge innovation activity is conceptualized as an intertemporal production process. Invention patent and regional gross product are imposed on desirable outputs, highlighting the need for knowledge economy. The empirical result shows that knowledge innovation has a positive effect on economic development. At the same time, decision-maker should be interest in the economic effect of patents’ type and quality. The government should then encourage new technical applications with greater commercial value from a market-oriented perspective, in order to benefit the most from the innovation process in the short-run.

Purpose - The purpose of this study was to explore the impact of chatbots’ innovation attributes on the innovation acceptance for consumers who have used chatbots to purchase fashion products that account for a large share of transactions in mobile shopping. Research design, data, and methodology – Data were collected from Korean consumers aged 20 to 49 who had experience using chatbots when purchasing fashion-related products via mobile circumstances. After a pilot survey of 31 customers, pre-questionnaire was revised for the final test, and the final questionnaire was distributed to 1,500 subjects. Out of these, 244 were retrieved. After excluding 48 inappropriate responses, 196 were used for statistical analysis. Frequency analysis, exploratory factor analysis, one-way ANOVA, regression analysis and independent t-test using SPSS 23.0 were employed for data analyses. Results - First, four factors of chatbots’ attributes were extracted: relative advantages and compatibility, complexity, sensibility, and diversity. Second, two factors were extracted for fashion leadership: fashion opinion leadership and fashion innovativeness. Two groups based on the fashion leadership were identified: active innovation adopters and passive innovation adopters. Third, relative advantages and compatibility, diversity, sensibility of innovation attributes were found to have effects on the innovation acceptance in order. Fourth, significant differences were found in sensibility of innovation attributes and innovation acceptance in groups by marital status and age. The married in their 30s and 40s perceived sensibility as a more important attribute of chatbots than the unmarried in their twenties. Among the groups of different income levels, meaningful differences were found in diversity of innovation attributes and innovation acceptance. Fifth, there were significant differences found in relative advantages and compatibility, sensibility of innovation attributes, and acceptance of Innovation among the groups by fashion leadership. Active innovation adopters were found to be more aware of the importance of relative advantages and compatibility, and sensibility of innovation attributes, and innovation acceptance. Conclusions – The present study provides chatbots’ marketing strategies for fashion items need to be modified by demographic characteristics and fashion leadership. Particularly, fashion leadership was found to be an important factor in determining the perception of innovation attribute as well as innovation acceptance.

기술의 고도화와 짧은 제품 수명(Product Life Cycle)으로 인해 혁신적인 신제품 개발은 기업 내부의 자원만으로는 한계에 부딪히는 현실을 직면하고 있다. 이에 외부의 지식을 기업 내부로 유입하거나 내부의 자원을 외부로 유출, 공유하는 오픈 이노베이션 전략은 전 세계적으로 모든 분야에 걸쳐 확산되고 있는 추세이다. 본 연구는 폐쇄형 구조를 가진 리빙 세라믹 분야의 외부 디자이너와의 콜라보레이션 사례를 오픈 이노베이션 관점에서 분석하고 이를 통해 기업 혁신에 미치는 영향 및 상관관계를 파악하여 세라믹 제조기업의 혁신 방향성을 제시하는데 목적이 있다. 연구 방법으로는 오픈 이노베이션의 이론적 고찰을 통해 개념과 유형을 정립하고 질적 연구 방법을 채택하여 외부 지식의 유입 형태 중 하나인 외부 디자이너 콜라보레이션 방식으로 출시된 리빙 세라믹 제품 사례를 분석하였다. 첫째, 외부 디자이너와의 콜라보레이션을 통해 R&D 강화로 기존 제품의 형태, 색상, 패턴의 탈피를 가져올 수 있으며 새로운 소비층 확보가 가능하다. 둘째, 새로운 아이디어와 제품 컨셉을 통해 신규 사업을 창출할 수 있으며 이는 곧 이윤 창출로 이어진다. 셋째, 외부 디자이너와의 콜라보레이션은 기업의 네임 벨류를 상승시키고 동시에 중요한 기업 이미지 마케팅 요소로 활용될 수 있다. 넷째, 일부 사례에서는 외부 디자이너 개인의 인지도가 기업 혁신의 기여도와는 크게 비례하지 않음을 알 수 있다. 향후 다수의 기업이 채택하고 있는 인바운드 (In-Bound) 형 프로세스 이외에도 아웃 바운드 (Out-Bound) 와 커플 바운드 (Coupled-Bound) 형 오픈 이노베이션의 적극적인 활용을 통해 리빙 세라믹 제조 기업의 상생과 지속 가능성을 기대해 본다.

본 연구에서는 해외의 3D프린팅 기술을 활용한 혁신성 소구방법의 광고캠페인 사례를 고찰함으로써 고도화된 사회에서 혁신적 마케팅 커뮤니케이션에 대한 필요성 인식과 향후 3D프린팅과 같은 혁신기술과 광고마케팅 분야의 통섭적 사고에 대한 방향성을 제시하고자 하였다. 해외의 글로벌 기업 브랜드는 혁신기술을 받아들이고, 이를 통해 광고마케팅 분야와 결부 시켜 광고캠페인을 진행하며 소비자와 새로운 방식의 커뮤니케이션을 시도하고 있으나 우리나라에서는 관련 연구가 이루 어지거나 실질적으로 광고캠페인이 진행된 사례는 극히 드문 실정이다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 선행연구를 바탕으로 혁신성 의 속성을 ‘자기표현(assertiveness)’, ‘감성(sensibility)’, ‘타인과의 공유(sharing with others)’와 로저스(Rogers,2003)의 ‘시용가능성(trialability)’, ‘가시성(observability)’의 5가지로 정의하고, 수용자 경험 속성으로 ‘이용성(usability)’, ‘접근성 (accessibility)’, ‘복합성(complexity)’, ‘창조성(creativity)’을 도출하여 선행연구 및 로저스의 혁신성 이론을 토대로 설계한 분석모델을 통하여 해외 혁신성 소구방법의 광고캠페인 사례를 분석하였다. 분석 결과, 일반적인 소구방법보다는 광고캠페인을 통한 자기표현의 경험 가치와 정서적 가치, 관계 형성과 시용가능성이 갖춰진 환경에서 새로움과 즐거움, 재미의 소구가 가능한 혁신성 소구방법이 진화한 소비자를 충족시킬 만한 요인으로 작용할 수 있으며, 혁신성의 속성이 높을 때 전반적으로 사용자 경험 속성도 높은 것으로 분석되었다. 이는 혁신성 소구방법의 광고캠페인은 대체적으로 혁신기술을 활용한 제작 과정 전반에 수용자의 체험이 가능하기 때문인 것으로 분석되었으며, 혁신성의 다섯 가지 속성과 수용자 경험의 네 가지 요소를 포괄적으로 활용하여 수용자들의 총체적 경험이 가능한 광고캠페인 프로세스를 구축한다면 혁신성 소구방법의 광고캠페인을 통한 수용자와의 커뮤니케이션을 보다 향상시킬 수 있을 것으로 보인다. 본 연구는 혁신성 소구방법의 광고캠페인 사례의 혁신성 속성 등 수용자의 경험에 영향을 미치는 무형의 요인을 연구함으로써 혁신적 마케팅 커뮤니케이션의 필요성에 대한 인식을 제고하고, 광고캠페인의 혁신성 소구방법과 수용자 경험의 관계를 이해하여 이와 관련된 연구의 기초가 되는 탐험적 연구로써 향후 새로운 광고 전략 수립의 단서를 제공할 수 있을 것으로 기대된다.

The paper aims to evaluate the combination of strategies that influence the success of New Technology Based Firms (NTBFs) located in isolated areas with resource constraints. We utilize the Kauffman Firm Survey to construct a subset of 224 firms operating in primary metal manufacturing industries and who are located in non-thriving areas. We focus on the impact of technological strategy, in the form of Inward Technology Licensing (ITL), combined with financial strategy, in the form of increased financial slack. Using a negative binomial-specification technique to model these relations, we find that ITL positively impacts internal innovation in the firm and this relation is strengthened by the presence of greater financial slack. This positive impact of financial slack supports the behavioral theory of the firm rather than agency theory in that financial slack enables further innovation rather than stifling it. This research confirms the importance of resource acquisition, suggesting that entrepreneurs may utilize external sources of knowledge in an effort to build a favorable situation when facing the challenges of location. Finally, by presenting evidence showing the compatibility of a financial strategy with a knowledge strategy (ITL), this study emphasizes the importance to entrepreneurs of choosing the proper combination of varying strategies.

The paper aims to investigate relationships between technology and innovation management, total factor productivity and economic growth in China. By comparing the trends in total factor productivity growth of industrialized economies (i.e. OECD), this study intends to showcase the importance of total factor productivity progress in the Chinese economy. The study employs time series data of an annual basis for the period from 1977 to 2016 retrieved from the World Development Indicator. The study employs unit root test, cointegration test, fully modified least squares estimation method, canonical cointegrating regression and dynamic least squares estimation method to test the hypotheses. The results of the cointegrating regression analysis show that manufacturing growth leads to an increase of total factor productivity in the short-run in China. The findings of the study suggest that manufacturing (i.e. technology and product innovation) is positively related to the increase of total factor productivity in the short-run and total output growth in the long-run. The findings suggest that promoting technology and innovation management and supporting R&D subsidies may reduce the marginal cost of conducting R&D and increase the rate of technology and innovation management and R&D activity and therefore, the total factor productivity growth rate.

Researchers have confirmed the relationship between ambidexterity learning and innovation performance, but according to the resourcebased theory, the relationship between ambidexterity learning and innovation performance is also affected by the internal resources of the organization. Internal resources are an important factor affecting the transformation of learning outcomes into performance. In addition, few scholars have pointed out whether different types of learning have different effects on different types of innovation performance. This study collects data from 170 High-tech enterprises in Shandong, china, and discusses the effects of exploitative learning and explorative learning on management innovation performance and technological innovation performance .This study further examines the moderating role of slack resource on the relationship between ambidexterity learning and innovation performance. Results show that ambidexterity learning has positive effect on innovation performance. Compared with exploitative learning, explorative learning has a greater impact on management innovation performance; compared with explorative learning, exploitative learning has a greater impact on technological innovation performances. Slack resource has positive moderating role between the relationship of exploitative learning, explorative learning and technology innovation performance. But Slack resource has no moderating role between the relationship of exploitative learning, explorative learning and management innovation performance.

Purpose – It suggests that making a policy and strategies for a way of Dubai has a strong priority strategy on science and technology by using much oil dollars to prepare risk when oil dollar’s decrease. This has been now investigated how the leading innovator has changed the periphery countries. Research design, data, and methodology – Analyze policy, status, what other neighbouring Middle East countries also want to benchmark a successful case of a leading Dubai strategy. Higher manpower is needed absolutely to develop S&T. and etc. Dubai and Arab countries establish university to nurture as well as invite the talented manpower from overseas to recover deficient manpower. Dubai built totally academy city and invited branch of the overseas famous university, and Saudi Arabia built university(KAUST) and invite faculty and support good scholarship for students. Abrab countries especially, This is studied the process of differentiating and integrating the migrant workers of these cities into the globalized cities. This has resulted in large-scale employment for foreign and local companies in these cities and the spread of science and innovation. Results – Dubai supports venture or SMEs by using a strong priority strategy and attracts foreigner’s investor, with which the neighbouring countries have been preparing together for 4th wave. It demonstrates that the gravitational model has been activated from neighboring countries of innovation science to create Dubai‘s hub. The maturity of long-term urban innovation is related to innovation capability through the national response and review. As a result, the flow of skilled international migration has been localized because of the mutual intersection with the local employment structure, and the development has spread as it spreads to neighboring countries. Conclusion – For the exploiting of new Distribution market in the neighbouring countries, Middle East countries’ a strong priority strategy on S&T and education system give an influence on economic situation of the 4th wave in the world and world order of leading by USA, Japan, or EU, and etc. This is due to the creation of clusters in the form of SEZs, friendly industrial policies and world-class infrastructure and innovation development. Its neighbours benchmark the cases of distribution of science innovation and centralizes the surrounding people.

An alternative method for team diversity studies is to examine demographic faultlines. A concept of demographic faultline enables us to better understand team dynamics with multidimensional diversity. This study suggests the demographic faultline as a new situational factorto influence the relationship between leader teamwork behaviors and a climate of support for innovation. When subgroups divided by demographic faultline are homogeneous within them and heterogeneous between them, the homogeneity may increase intimacy in each subgroup while the heterogeneity may increase exclusiveness between those subgroups. We argued that a leader could play an important role to build a cooperative relationship between faultline-based subgroups and highlight positive aspects of developing and maintaining subgroups in organizations. With a sample of 81 teams (558 employees), it was examined how leader teamwork behaviors would affect a team-level climate of support for innovation and how this relationship would be moderated by each team’s demographic faultline (gender, age, and educational specialty). As predicted, it was found that there was a significant positive relationship between each leader’s teamwork behaviors and each team’s climate of support for innovation. In addition, this relationship was stronger for teams with strong faultline than with weak faultline. Our findings and their implications were further discussed.

The growth of Bandung’s tourism industry has had a massive impact on the hotel sector. Most tourists visiting Bandung are domestic tourists and tend to be modest spenders fitting the profile of a mid-market (2/3 star) hotel guest. As competition has increased mid-market hotels have come under pressure from upmarket (4/5 star) and budget hotels committed to cutting prices. There is also competition with the midmarket hotel sector, which means that the 2/3 star hotels have to keep innovating in order to remain competitive. This study uses the Service Quality framework to describe customer expectations and identify gaps in hotel services. A questionnaire survey of 105 local tourists who had stayed in 2/3 star hotels in Bandung showed that the most important dimension is responsiveness, following by reliability, assurance, tangibles and empathy. Thus we conclude that local tourists’ primary expectations are that hotels will deliver the service they have promised, be responsive to guests’ needs and comply with service standards. Furthermore, these findings validate the earlier prediction that comparing 2/3 star hotel with 5/4 start hotel, the customers are having preliminary knowledge on facilities limitation and friendliness. Tourists using 2/3 star hotels tend to be prepared to accept limited facilities and less friendly staff service.

This conceptual study proposed how and the extent to which relational pluralism, defined as a firm’s multiple ties to actors within and outside its industry, can help firms to commercialize exploitative and exploratory product innovation, respectively. I conceptualize a firm’s network within its industry as insiders-based network and the firm’s network outside industry as outsiders-based network. I propose, first that firms maintaining multiple connections to actors in insiders-based network are more likely to commercialize exploitative product innovation; second, that firms maintaining multiple connections with actors in outsiders-based network are more likely to commercialize exploratory product innovation; and third, that firms’ absorptive capacity, as the moderator, strengthens the positive relationship between multiple ties in each network and commercialization of product innovation.

본 연구는 Rogers의 혁신확산이론에 근거하여, 혁신의 특성인 상대적 이익, 적합성, 시험가능성, 관찰가능성, 복잡성 등이 스마트기기 활용 수업의 수용의도에 미치는 영향과, 이와 관련하여 개인 혁신성은 어떤 조절효과를 보이는지 살펴보았다. 편의표집에 의해 서울․경기권 및 강원도 지역의 5개 대학을 선정하고 2017년도 2학기에 이 대학들의 교수학습지원(개발)센터에서 주관한 스마트 기기 활용 교수법 특강에 참여한 교수. 강사를 대상으로 설문지를 배부하였다. Rogers의 5개 특성 과 수용의도, 개인 혁신성 측정을 위한 척도를 구성하고 확인적 요인분석과 Cronbach’s Alpha 계 수로 측정도구의 타당도와 신뢰도를 검증하였다. 배경변인을 통제하고 5개 변인이 혁신의 수용의 도에 미치는 영향관계를 보기위해 위계적 회귀분석을 하였으며 조절효과를 검증하기 위해 개인 혁신성을 조절변인으로 하는 위계적 조절 회귀분석을 실시하였다. 연구 결과 상대적 이익과 적합 성, 복잡성은 수용의도에 유의한 영향을 미치는 것으로 나타났으나 관찰가능성과 시험가능성은 통 계적으로 유의한 영향을 미치지 않는 것으로 나타났다. 1단계 가설에서 기각된 관찰가능성과 시험 가능성을 제외하고 개인 혁신성의 조절효과를 분석한 결과 상대적 이익과 복잡성에서만 개인 혁 신성이 조절효과를 보이는 것으로 나타났다.

Purpose – Market orientation is a key factor for business performance in today’s fluctuating conditions. This study investigates whether the employment of innovation can improve the innovative capability and increase the performance by gaining competitive advantages or not. Therefore, this study aims to investigate the effects of market orientation on the performance of small and medium size distributer enterprises (SMDEs) in Iran. Research design, data, and methodology – Customer orientation, Competitor orientation, and Inter-functional coordination have been regarded as market orientation indices to determine the effects of these indices on marketing innovation, gaining competitive advantages, and companies’ performance as well. Data were collected from managers and experts in SMDEs in Iran. The structural equations modeling are used for analysis. Results – The results indicated that marketing innovation has been improved in competitive companies that enjoyed a high level of Inter-functional coordination among the various units. Besides, marketing innovation resulted in gaining competitive advantages regarding cost management, concentration, and differentiation in these companies. In addition, it was observed that SMDEs that obtain competitive advantages are equipped to reap superior performance. Conclusions – With cost management, differentiation and concentration are more likely to enhance the enterprise efficiency and effectiveness than other companies. Additionally, competitiveness, inter-functional coordination, and marketing innovation in SMDEs have a positive impact on marketing innovation.