Abstract
Value-Originality. Startup companies look for solutions to remove useless issues and enhance the activities offering value adding over the product/service development stage in such a way that such companies will be able to provide great products and more probabilities for success with no need to employ considerable investments from external sources. Accordingly, innovation, business intelligence, and knowledge management will contribute to the positive findings of startup companies. Objectives. Hence, the purpose of the present study was to conduct an investigation on the impact of business intelligence over the performance of startup companies according to such mediators as innovation and knowledge management. Methods. The type of this study is correlation and is also an applied and descriptive-survey work regarding objective and data gathering. Our statistical population encompassed all related experts and managers in the following Iranian startups: Pinket, Alibaba, Snapp, Filimo, IDPay, PhonePay, TapSell, and Body Spinner. Our sample was composed of 108 experts and managers in mentioned companies, who were chosen based on the cluster sampling method. Structural equation modeling with partial least squares approach was used to analyze the gathered data. Findings. Our results reveal the effectiveness of business intelligence, innovation, and knowledge management on the performance of startups and that of business intelligence on innovation and knowledge management. Ultimately, innovation and knowledge management are mediators of the relationship between business intelligence and performance of startups. Conclusion. The startup companies’ managers are strongly recommended to take advantage of innovation and knowledge management in order to enhance the performance of their businesses.
Highlights
Over the last two decades, there have been many contents and qualitative changes in global markets, and the movement towards regionalization and globalization of markets has accelerated
On the one hand, a researcher-made questionnaire was used, which includes 34 questions, of which 8 questions to measure the business intelligence, 8 questions to measure the performance of startups, 9 questions to measure the knowledge management, and 9 questions to measure the innovation were used. e items and queries in the questionnaire were provided on a website, and the corresponding link was given to the respondents through their e-mail so that they could readily choose their desired option in less than 20 minutes. is kind of survey was prepared for the convenience of the experts participating in this study
This study mainly aimed to investigate the effect of business intelligence on the performance of startups with the mediating role of innovation and knowledge management
Summary
Over the last two decades, there have been many contents and qualitative changes in global markets, and the movement towards regionalization and globalization of markets has accelerated. One of the obvious and main characteristics of this structural revolution is the further growth and promotion of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). SMEs play an important role in the Mathematical Problems in Engineering economic and social development of countries. In all economies, these groups make up the vast majority of the firms and are usually responsible for creating jobs in the community, while one-third to two-thirds of the volume of private sector transactions take place in these companies. Experts believe that SMEs are able to manage the world’s economies with a high power of competitiveness and productivity [1, 2]
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