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TECHNOLOGY IN SOCIETY
Volume 68, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.techsoc.2022.101900
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Social media usage; SMEs; Sustainable performance; Innovation capabilities; Digital leadership
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This study investigates the impact of social media usage on innovation capabilities and sustainable performance of SMEs. The results indicate that social media usage has a positive and significant direct influence on innovation capabilities and sustainable performance. Additionally, the study reveals that social media usage can enhance sustainable performance when mediated by innovation capabilities and moderated by digital leadership.
The increasing use of social media and its ability to aid small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to target large audiences at once has triggered to transformation in how SMEs perform their routine operations. Research on social media usage and SME performance is comparatively novel and patchy; yet, researchers, managers, and policymakers have limited interest in investigating the construct specifically in developing countries. This study explores the relationships between social media usage and innovation capabilities to improve sustainable SME performance. This study grounded the theoretical model building on a resource-based view. An online ques-tionnaire was administered to gather data and was further analyzed quantitatively. The proposed interlinks were assessed using a sample of 549 employees of SMEs using SmartPLS techniques. The results show that social media usage has a positive and significant direct influence on innovation capabilities and sustainable SMEs performance, and innovation capabilities also have a positive and significant direct impact on sustainable SME per-formance. In addition, findings reveal that social media usage can enhance sustainable SME performance when mediated by innovation capabilities and moderated by digital leadership. This study offers several theoretical and practical implications
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