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Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

2020

Innovation

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Strategies To Integrate Technological Innovations For Caribbean Small- And Medium-Sized Enterprises, Deborah J. Mahabir-Yearwood Jan 2020

Strategies To Integrate Technological Innovations For Caribbean Small- And Medium-Sized Enterprises, Deborah J. Mahabir-Yearwood

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

Up to 59% of managers in small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) fail to integrate technological innovation (TI) strategies. Restricted access to sophisticated technology, limited capital, and discontinuous collaborations between SMEs and government organizations hamper the successful integration of TI by managers of Caribbean SMEs. Managers of SMEs in the Caribbean region must exploit strategies for improved efficiencies in operational capacity, continuous development in business profits and growth, and surviving hyper-competition. Grounded by the theories of diffusion of innovation and adopter-based instrumentalist, the purpose of this qualitative multiple case study was to explore strategies that 4 operation managers of SMEs …