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<p>The current increasing topic around empirical study is environmental issues. Several previous studies examined how open innovation strategies could affect eco-innovation amid research debates about environmental conservation in corporate innovation. This study aims to prove the effect of open innovation strategies on creating eco-innovation to affect SMEs’ sustainable competitive advantage and performance empirically. This study developed and empirically tested the mediating role of eco-innovation on sustainable competitive advantage and performance. A quantitative approach in testing the empirical research model was implemented. A total of 223 SMEs in the batik sector in Yogyakarta were examined. We used purposive sampling approach to select the research sample. The criteria used in the sampling is SMEs batik which has been operating for three years or more. The results revealed that open innovation strategies significantly positively affected eco-innovation while eco-innovation significantly positively affected competitive advantage and SMEs performance. Environmental uncertainty strengthened the eco-innovation relationship on competitive advantage, but not on the SMEs’ performance.</p>
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The current increasing topic around empirical study is environmental issues. Several previous studies examined how open innovation strategies could affect eco-innovation amid research debates about environmental conservation in corporate innovation. This study aims to prove the effect of open innovation strategies on creating eco-innovation to affect SMEs’ sustainable competitive advantage and performance empirically. This study developed and empirically tested the mediating role of eco-innovation on sustainable competitive advantage and performance. A quantitative approach in testing the empirical research model was implemented. A total of 223 SMEs in the batik sector in Yogyakarta were examined. We used purposive sampling approach to select the research sample. The criteria used in the sampling is SMEs batik which has been operating for three years or more. The results revealed that open innovation strategies significantly positively affected eco-innovation while eco-innovation significantly positively affected competitive advantage and SMEs performance. Environmental uncertainty strengthened the eco-innovation relationship on competitive advantage, but not on the SMEs’ performance.

Open Innovation Strategies and SMEs’ Performance: The Mediating Role of Eco-Innovation in Environmental Uncertainty

Management Systems in Production Engineering

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The current increasing topic around empirical study is environmental issues. Several previous studies examined how open innovation strategies could affect...

Open Innovation Strategies and SMEs’ Performance: The Mediating Role of Eco-Innovation in Environmental Uncertainty

Published Online: Jul 13, 2022

Page range: 214 - 222

Received: Sep 01, 2021

Accepted: Jul 01, 2022

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/mspe-2022-0027

Keywords
open innovation strategies, eco-innovation, competitive advantage, and SMEs’ performance

© 2022 Nuryakin et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Open Innovation Strategies and SMEs’ Performance: The Mediating Role of Eco-Innovation in Environmental Uncertainty

Published Online: Jul 13, 2022

Page range: 214 - 222

Received: Sep 01, 2021

Accepted: Jul 01, 2022

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/mspe-2022-0027

Keywordsopen innovation strategies, eco-innovation, competitive advantage, and SMEs’ performance

© 2022 Nuryakin et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Keywords
open innovation strategies, eco-innovation, competitive advantage, and SMEs’ performance