Purpose

Highlighting the important role of managerial action in resource orchestration, the purpose of this paper is to explore how differences in managerial perceptions about the strategic relevance of resources and capabilities influences the resource configurations in SMEs from an emerging economy context.

Design/methodology/approach

Using a survey-based instrument that was developed by the Global Competitive project (www.gcp.org), the authors identify 62 Mexican SMEs and perform a cluster analysis based on firm size and age and estimate the competitiveness of the SMEs in each cluster.

Findings

The results of our cluster analysis indeed suggest the existence of four configurations of SMEs based on the managerial perceptions of the value creating potential of the different resources and capabilities at the firms' disposal. The authors find evidence that managerial perception of the strategic relevance of resources and capabilities at a firm's disposal could influence firm-level competitiveness. Managers of firms that perceive high value or importance to the resources and capabilities, considered the ten resource pillars for competitiveness in this study, are also likely to be the most competitive.

Research limitations/implications

This study is exploratory in nature and intends to provide an initial and more descriptive analysis of SME competitiveness in an emerging economy context. Additionality, the study does not take into account the effect of industry membership.

Originality/value

The choice of an emerging economy that are often characterized by asymmetric information and informal rules and regulations provides an original context for an understudied area of research in firm-level competitiveness.

中文翻译：

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管理者对资源和能力的战略相关性及其对公司竞争力的配置的理解：一项探索性研究

目的

强调管理行动在资源编排中的重要作用，本文的目的是探讨新兴经济背景下，管理者对资源和能力的战略相关性的看法差异如何影响中小企业的资源配置。

设计/方法/方法

作者使用由全球竞争项目（www.gcp.org）开发的基于调查的工具，确定了62家墨西哥中小企业，并根据公司规模和年龄进行了聚类分析，并估计了每个聚类中中小企业的竞争力。

发现

我们的集群分析结果确实表明，中小型企业存在四种配置，这是基于管理者对价值的认识，这些价值创造了企业可支配的不同资源和能力的潜力。作者发现证据表明，管理人员对公司所掌握的资源和能力的战略相关性的看法可能会影响公司一级的竞争力。在本研究中被视为竞争力的十大资源支柱的，对资源和能力具有较高价值或重要性的公司经理们也可能是最具竞争力的。

研究局限/意义

这项研究本质上是探索性的，旨在对新兴经济背景下的中小企业竞争力提供初步和更具描述性的分析。另外，该研究未考虑行业成员资格的影响。

创意/价值

通常以信息不对称和非正式法规为特征的新兴经济体的选择，为企业水平竞争力研究领域的未深入研究提供了原始背景。