COVID-19 impact on dairy sector: The mediating role of knowledge sharing and trust on innovation capability

South African Journal of Economic and Management Sciences

 
 
Field Value
 
Title COVID-19 impact on dairy sector: The mediating role of knowledge sharing and trust on innovation capability
 
Creator Ahmad, Israr Thurasamy, Ramayah Shahzad, Arfan Ullah, Muhammad I. Hussain, Arsalan Ansari, Hafiz Waqas Ahmed
 
Subject — industrial cluster resources; knowledge sharing; information technology; trust; supervisory support; training and development; innovation capability
Description Background: In the current era, innovation has become the basis for the success of all industries. In reality, fast innovation facilitated by rapidly changing technological discoveries is critical to global economic progress.Aim: The primary goal of this article is to examine the effect of knowledge exchange and development of supervisory support, trust, training, information technology, and industrial cluster resources on innovation capabilities in the dairy sector of Pakistan.Setting: From a total of 520 small and medium enterprise (SMEs) dairy farms, 227 owners and managers were carefully chosen to participate in the survey.Method: The current study’s research framework was based on the resources and diffusion of innovation perspective theories. The data were gathered from dairy farm owners and managers in Punjab, Pakistan. SmartPLS-SEM was used to examine the multivariate connection among the variables.Results: The current research finds that training and development, supervisory assistance, and industrial cluster resources strongly influence knowledge sharing. Furthermore, trust has a favourable influence on innovative capabilities. However, the mediation effect of knowledge sharing (KS) did not support information technology (IT) training and development (TD) and innovative capabilities (IC).Conclusion: According to findings in the study, TD as a form of learning connect employees through the sharing of new ideas, allowing the business to improve and the concept to be modified. This study found that supervisory assistance significantly impacts innovative capabilities and knowledge sharing.
 
Publisher AOSIS Publishing
 
Contributor
Date 2023-01-19
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion — survey
Format text/html application/epub+zip text/xml application/pdf
Identifier 10.4102/sajems.v26i1.4591
 
Source South African Journal of Economic and Management Sciences; Vol 26, No 1 (2023); 11 pages 2222-3436 1015-8812
 
Language eng
 
Relation
The following web links (URLs) may trigger a file download or direct you to an alternative webpage to gain access to a publication file format of the published article:

https://sajems.org/index.php/sajems/article/view/4591/2641 https://sajems.org/index.php/sajems/article/view/4591/2642 https://sajems.org/index.php/sajems/article/view/4591/2643 https://sajems.org/index.php/sajems/article/view/4591/2644
 
Coverage — — —
Rights Copyright (c) 2023 Israr Ahmad, Ramayah Thurasamy, Arfan Shahzad, Muhammad I. Ullah, Arsalan Hussain, Hafiz Waqas Ahmed Ansari https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
ADVERTISEMENT