Journal of Innovation and Entrepreneurship (Dec 2021)

Impact of dynamic capacities on the performance of food and beverage enterprises in Lagos, Nigeria

  • Lu Lin Zhou,
  • James Onuche Ayegba,
  • Emmanuel Onu Ayegba,
  • Peace Maina Ayegba,
  • Zhang Xin Jie

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1186/s13731-021-00169-1
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 24

Abstract

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Abstract This study examined the impact of dynamic capacities on the performance of food and beverage enterprises in Lagos, Nigeria. The following sub-variables (strategic decision-making capacity, product innovation capacity, strategic flexibility, competitive intensity, technological turbulence, and technological capability) were employed to represent the variable of dynamic capacity. Also, the following sub-variables (sales growth, enterprise survival, enterprise efficiency, and competitive advantage) were employed to represent the variable of enterprise performance. Primary data was used to achieve descriptive and inferential statistics, and the statistics is estimated by the PLS-SEM method which was calibrated on Lisrel 8.70 software. This study found that product innovation, competitive intensity and technological turbulence, technological capability and competitive intensity, and strategic flexibility are critical sub-variables in determining the robustness of dynamic capacities, as they adequately improve increasing sales growth, survival, and sustenance of enterprise into the unforeseeable future, efficiency of enterprise, and competitive advantage of food and beverage manufacturing enterprises, respectively, particularly in this trying period that is evidenced with technological change and competition, among others.

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