Purpose

This paper analyses the impact of innovation orientation on the family business performance in Kuwait. Further, the aim of this paper is to understand the innovation culture among Kuwaiti family businesses and the innovation orientation concept and its importance for these businesses.

Design/methodology/approach

The study will use a quantitative research methodology in order to investigate the relationship between independent variables: creativity, risk-taking, future orientation, openness to change and proactiveness with Kuwaiti business performance as a dependent variable. A well-structured questionnaire is distributed to 150 family businesses that operate in Kuwait, where 114 of the respondents responded positively. Structural equation modeling (SEM) analysis was used for evaluating the proposed model.

Findings

The results show that creativity, risk-taking and future orientation have significant relationship with business performance, while openness to change and proactiveness do not have any significant relationship with business performance.

Research limitations/implications

This research is conducted during the period of initial months of COVID-19 pandemic, March–July 2020 respectively, and responses might be influenced by the current situation.

Originality/value

The correlation between family businesses and innovation orientation is not studied so far in Kuwait. There is a lack of studies about family business in general in Kuwait since there are only very few research studies. This is the first research about this topic that covers Kuwait as a country.

中文翻译：

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科威特家族企业的创新导向和业绩：来自 COVID-19 大流行初期的证据

目的

本文分析了创新导向对科威特家族企业绩效的影响。此外，本文的目的是了解科威特家族企业的创新文化、创新导向概念及其对这些企业的重要性。

设计/方法/方法

该研究将使用定量研究方法来调查自变量之间的关系：创造力、冒险精神、未来导向、对变革的开放性和积极性，并将科威特业务绩效作为因变量。向在科威特经营的 150 家家族企业分发了一份结构完善的问卷，其中 114 名受访者做出了积极回应。结构方程建模 (SEM) 分析用于评估所提出的模型。

发现

结果表明，创造力、冒险精神和未来导向与企业绩效有显着关系，而对变革的开放性和主动性与企业绩效没有任何显着关系。

研究限制/影响

这项研究分别在 COVID-19 大流行的最初几个月，即 2020 年 3 月至 7 月期间进行，响应可能会受到当前情况的影响。

原创性/价值

迄今为止，科威特尚未研究家族企业与创新导向之间的相关性。科威特缺乏对家族企业的一般研究，因为研究很少。这是第一个涵盖科威特作为一个国家的主题的研究。