As an environmentally friendly type of farm management and food production system, organic agriculture has experienced spectacular growth during the last 20 years, with Spain being the sixth largest producer in the world. However, organic farming faces important challenges that may jeopardize its future. First, yields per hectare may be significantly lower than in conventional […]
According to several authors (Kane et al., 2015; Yeow et al., 2018), strategy is a crucial element regarding firms’ digitalization and technology is not the only key factor. On the other hand, SMEs face specific challenges to seize digitalization opportunities and take advantage of them, mainly due to their lack of resources and capabilities (Cenamora […]
Sustainable competitiveness and growth of SMEs are increasingly determined by their capability to make use of digital technologies which are generating opportunities for developing new growth routes based on digitization. This paper reports the findings of a study how SMEs in the Basque region of Spain assess their digital maturity. The main purpose of this […]
The aim of this paper is to determine the influence of IT-based and personal interaction-based knowledge management (KM) practices on organizational learning (OL) and on relative customer value performance (i.e. performance against competitors), and to analyse the moderating role of technology level in these relationships. To test the above, we have used survey data from […]
The framework developed in this paper provides guidance to SMEs to sense and seize digitally enabled growth opportunities as well as start a project based learning process to transform the organization in order to remain competitive in turbulent environments. The proposed framework is nurtured from a dynamic capabilities approach as well as from digital transformation […]
This study is aimed at analysing the impact of consulting firms’ intervention in business continuity and survival, particularly, in the case of SMEs. Along these lines, the main objective of this research is to measure such an impact in a set of Basque SMEs. It is hypothesized that an output of a successful consulting intervention […]
Purpose – The aim of this paper is to diagnose the intellectual capital (IC) of Spanish companies so as to provide the basis for guiding the transition from a “brick-based economy” towards a knowledge-based economy. Moreover, the interplay between IC stocks (i.e. static IC), knowledge management (KM, i.e. dynamic IC) and human resource management (HRM) […]