Title
Dimensions and their elements affecting the innovative activities of agricultural SMEs toward their sustainable development
Abstract
The vast majority of firms in each economy are small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) including the family business. Their sustainable development depends on the ability to implement the innovative activities. Most research studies dedicated to innovation are focused mainly on technology-based SMEs. Our paper shows the importance of innovative activities in agricultural SMEs. The main aim of this paper is to identify the key elements covered by three main dimensions (technological, non-technological, and organizational) that have an impact on innovative activities of agricultural SMEs toward their sustainable development and to investigate the perception of these elements by agricultural SMEs. The approach of this study is quantitative, based on the data gathered from 192 Slovak agricultural SMEs. The results pointed on the importance of all dimensions and three main elements covered each dimension. The results of this paper may help SMEs, professionals, and policymakers to better understand the importance of innovative activities in agricultural SMEs.
Keywords
Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs), sustainable development, innovative activities, dimension, elements, policy
JEL classifications
O31 , L26 , C12
URI
http://jssidoi.org/jesi/article/750
DOI
Pages
1142-1157
Funding
The contribution is the result of Vega project no. 1/0194/19 “Research on process-oriented management of financial management focusing on detection of tax evasion in terms of international business”.This is an open access issue and all published articles are licensed under a
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License