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Sustainability Based on Leadership, Organizational Culture in Subsistence Small Businesses
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Special Issue "Sustainability Based on Leadership, Organizational Culture in Subsistence Small Businesses"

A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Economic and Business Aspects of Sustainability".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 June 2022.

Special Issue Editor

Prof. Dr. Carlos M. Jardon
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Guest Editor
Department of Applied Economics, University of Vigo, Vigo, Spain
Interests: intellectual capital; innovation; small business; subsistence markets

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Small businesses play a very important role when it comes to developing the poorest areas. The market created in these areas presents special characteristics, which is why it takes the name of “subsistence market”. In particular, people in these areas usually create businesses as a means of support for their families; these businesses are defined as subsistence small businesses. Therefore, the factors that affect the growth of these companies are essential to maintain and foster their sustainability. This Special Issue will analyze two special factors—leadership and culture as sources of growth—but other factors may also be considered. The concept of leadership is complex and has been studied from multiple approaches, especially in the psychological field and the field of management. Small businesses present limited leadership. In addition, the organizational culture of these businesses is marked by cultural traditions and know-how of the territory, both of which condition the growth of small businesses.

This Special Issue will include papers covering a wide range of aspects of leadership, culture, and growth oriented to sustainability in small businesses, with particular interest in subsistence markets. It is a multidisciplinary proposal accepting studies in individual countries as well as international comparisons. Especially welcome is empirical research on developing countries and oriented at increasing sustainability in poorest areas.

Prof. Dr. Carlos M. Jardon
Guest Editor

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All papers will be peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Sustainability is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 1900 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

Keywords

  • Small business
  • Subsistence markets
  • Sustainability
  • Culture
  • Leadership

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Is Sustainable Performance Explained by Firm Effect in Small Business?
by
Vicente López-López
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Susana Iglesias-Antelo
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Esteban Fernández
Sustainability 2020, 12(23), 10028; https://doi.org/10.3390/su122310028 - 01 Dec 2020
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To what extent a firm’s resources (firm effect) and the structure of the sector (industry effect) are sources of a firm’s competitiveness has been debated for years in strategic management. Most of the empirical studies carried out have focused on large firms and [...] Read more.
To what extent a firm’s resources (firm effect) and the structure of the sector (industry effect) are sources of a firm’s competitiveness has been debated for years in strategic management. Most of the empirical studies carried out have focused on large firms and have used static performance measures, and in them the firm effect generally outweighs the industry effect. This research contributes to this debate in trying to verify whether the competitive advantage that relies on the firm’s resources is sustainable, especially in small firms. We used a sample of almost 15,000 Spanish firms to test the impact that the firm and the industry effects have on sustainable performance, for both small and large firms, applying hierarchical linear modelling with a variable measured through time-varying parameters. Our results confirm the absolute importance of the firm effect on sustainable organizational performance, regardless the firm size, and show that, even though the industry effect has little weight in explaining sustainability, it is significantly higher in the case of small firms. This means that managers must concentrate efforts on providing their firm with the necessary resources to achieve a competitive advantage while choosing a good sector to position itself. Full article
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Technology and Culture in Subsistence Small Businesses
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Carlos Fernandez-Jardon
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Xavier Martinez-Cobas
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Fabian Martinez-Ortiz
Sustainability 2020, 12(22), 9694; https://doi.org/10.3390/su12229694 - 20 Nov 2020
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The paper analyzes the connection between technological knowledge and organizational culture in small subsistence businesses (SSBs). It uses data from a proportional representative sample of 980 surveys in the canton of La Maná (Cotopaxí, Ecuador) to test if culture conditions the different components [...] Read more.
The paper analyzes the connection between technological knowledge and organizational culture in small subsistence businesses (SSBs). It uses data from a proportional representative sample of 980 surveys in the canton of La Maná (Cotopaxí, Ecuador) to test if culture conditions the different components of technological knowledge in SSBs. This work verifies that the technological knowledge is a source of short-term and long-term performance, which confirm for SSBs previous works in intellectual capital. The study analyzes also the moderating effect of culture, verifying that culture does not condition the connection between technological knowledge with the short-term performance. It shows that culture is not a source of performance. However, when the research checks whether the effect of the technological knowledge increases the long-term performance, the results indicate that culture significantly limits this effect, suggesting that culture presents a certain opportunism, possibly because in the SSBs, entrepreneurs do not pay any attention to developing knowledge resources. The conclusions present some managerial and social implications to improve the functioning and management of SSBs. Full article
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