Abstract
Technological innovation is believed to improve organization’s performance stimulates growth and the survival of the organization. Many factors influence the SME performance on technology adoption, such as formal strategy, Organization size, customer and supply relationship, technical capabilities, innovative cost and innovative support. The current study examines the performance of SMEs on technology adoption. It also examines the business performance along with the manufacturing performance of SMEs on adoption of newer technologies. The study uses logistic regression and linear regression to estimate manufacturing and business performance of SMEs. The results convey that the adoption of technologies by SMEs influence their manufacturing performance. Further, it can be concluded that, drivers of technology adoption partly influence the business performance of SMEs.
Highlights
As the dynamic of the investment changes it enhances the importance of decision making which is the part of the Behavioral finance
The result shows that risk aversion is an important criterion in decision making but the investor that are risk averse are more logical and rational (Hunjra et al, 2012)
These believe and information create or force the investor to take any decision it can be an overreaction of available information or it can be a suitable decision for the betterment of the firm
Summary
As the dynamic of the investment changes it enhances the importance of decision making which is the part of the Behavioral finance. If the organization makes an appropriate decision of investment it will result in an increase of firm productivity and outcome (Mayfield et al, 2008) Researchers such as Kengatharan and Kengatharan (2014), Qadri and Shabbir (2014), Nofsinger and Varma (2013), highlighted the positive relationship between behavioural factors and decision making of investment in the stock market by an investor. This research focuses on the detailed analysis of the experience of the investor as well as the corporate governance and other factors It covers both theoretical and observed involvement of the factor in the decision making of investment. The study is limited to the investment decisions of the Iraqi investors it covers the moderating factors such as age, gender and financial education of the investors which is the contribution of the current study and in this way this study adds value to the current state of knowledge in the domain of behavioral finance
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