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Productividad de recursos humanos, innovación de producto y desempeño exportador: Una investigación empírica

Human resource productivity, product innovation, and export performance: An empirical investigation

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  • Intangible Capital

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  • 2016
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http://dx.doi.org/10.3926/ic.746

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Purpose: The objective of this research is to examine the relationships between human resource (HR) productivity, product innovation, and export performance of the Spanish manufacturing SMEs. Our central proposition is that HR productivity enables the development of product innovation to increase firms’ export performance. Design/methodology: The proposed conceptual model, is tested using the technique of variance-based structural equation modeling and the estimation method of partial least squares, on a sample of 858 Spanish manufacturing SMEs. Findings: The empirical analysis supports our theory. Research limitations/implications: This research only focuses on the role of product, innovation in the relationship between HR productivity and export performance. Further research may study the mediating role of organizational capabilities based on other types of innovation (e.g., process, organizational, or marketing innovation). Practical implications: Suggest to entrepreneurs of SMEs, that increased HR productivity can lead to such impacts are captured by innovation, resulting in the generation of new products, which will lead demand shocks, and consequently a higher increase in firms’ exports.Originality/value: This research explains conceptually and empirically shows, that product innovation is a key intermediate mechanism, through which the Spanish manufacturing SME can increase its export results by exploiting the productivity of its talent base.
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Objeto: El objetivo de esta investigación es examinar las relaciones entre la productividad de los recursos humanos (RRHH), la innovación de producto y el desempeño exportador de la PYME manufacturera española. La proposición central de esta investigación es, que la productividad de los RRHH facilita el desarrollo de innovaciones de producto, para incrementar el desempeño exportador de las empresas. Diseño/metodología/enfoque: El modelo conceptual propuesto, se contrasta empleando la técnica de la modelización de ecuaciones estructurales, basada en la varianza y el método de estimación de los mínimos cuadrados parciales, sobre una muestra de 858 PYMES manufactureras españolas. Aportaciones y resultados: El análisis empírico da apoyo a nuestra teoría. Limitaciones: Esta investigación sólo se centra en el rol de la innovación de producto, en la relación entre la productividad de los RRHH y el desempeño exportador. También sería interesante estudiar el papel mediador de capacidades organizativas, basadas en otros tipos de innovaciones (p.e., la innovación en procesos, organizativa o en marketing). Implicaciones prácticas: Sugerir a los empresarios de PYMES, que incrementos en la productividad de los RRHH puede llevar a que dichos impactos sean capturados por la innovación, dando lugar a la generación de nuevos productos, que conllevará shocks de demanda, y en consecuencia de un mayor incremento de la exportación de sus empresas. Originalidad / Valor añadido: Esta investigación explica conceptualmente y demuestra empíricamente, que la innovación de producto es un mecanismo intermedio clave, a través del cual, la PYME manufacturera española, puede incrementar sus resultados de exportación, explotando la productividad de su base de talento productiva.
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