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Sustainable Performance Management in Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs)

A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Economic and Business Aspects of Sustainability".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 October 2023) | Viewed by 1316

Special Issue Editor

Prof. Dr. Jooh Lee

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Rohrer College of Business, Rowan University, Glassboro, NJ 08028, USA
Interests: ESG; sustainability; technology; capabilities; CEO compensation; diversification; firm performance
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Sustainability for firm performance in SMEs has been one of the central concerns among scholars and practitioners in business and economic fields across countries. Considering the strategic balance between risks and benefits, SMEs should pursue aggressive and proactive sustainable paradigms to build up competitive power under unprecedented economic crises.

This special issue will focus on the strategic significance of sustainability, along with two other ESG factors such as social responsibility and governance, to improve a firm economic performance across different industries and countries. The research in this issue will shed light on the critical strategic factors that contribute to firm performance in SMEs, directly and indirectly. Furthermore, this special issue will provide academics and practitioners with a diverse perspective on the links between sustainability and performance. 

In this Special Issue, original research articles and reviews are welcome. Research areas may include (but are not limited to) the following:

  • Corporate sustainability (associated with Environmental, Social, and Governance) and firm economic performance in SMEs
  • Corporate sustainability and technological innovation (i.e., R&D intensity, etc.) and performance in SMEs
  • Corporate sustainability and Capital structure and firm performance in SMEs
  • Sustainability performance and firm economic performance in SMEs
  • Determinants of firm economic performance through corporate responsibility in SMEs
  • CEO compensation and performance in SMEs
  • Comparative studies on the strategic impact of sustainability on performance between SMEs and Large firms
  • Global perspectives on this topic are highly welcomed.

I look forward to receiving your contributions.

Prof. Dr. Jooh Lee
Guest Editor

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Sustainability is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2400 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

Keywords

  • sustainability
  • corporate social responsibility
  • CEO compensation and governance
  • ESG
  • technology capability
  • firm performance
  • SMEs

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Post-Crisis Sustainable Performance of Manufacturing SMEs: The Roles of Positive Orientation, Financial Slack, and External Networks
by Andrew Chan, Francis Cheng and Shuk-Ling Cheng
Sustainability 2023, 15(17), 12998; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/su151712998 - 29 Aug 2023
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This paper examines the roles of positive orientation, financial slack, and external networks in the sustainability of small and medium-sized manufacturing enterprises (SMEs) following the global financial crisis in 2008–2009. The financial crisis is a good example of sudden, unexpected external disruption, in [...] Read more.
This paper examines the roles of positive orientation, financial slack, and external networks in the sustainability of small and medium-sized manufacturing enterprises (SMEs) following the global financial crisis in 2008–2009. The financial crisis is a good example of sudden, unexpected external disruption, in which a firm’s resilience as well as sustainability is seriously tested. Using a sample of 207 manufacturing SMEs in Hong Kong, we tested the simultaneous effects of positive orientation, financial slack, and external networks on post-crisis firm performance through strategic change. Our findings show that positive orientation and external networks play an enabling role in strategic change, which in turn leads to high performance. The enabling role of financial slack is, however, not supported. The study also shows that positive orientation, financial slack, and external networks play a buffering role, which has direct and positive effects on performance. The results provide academics and practitioners with a new perspective of the underlying mechanism that sustains the firm performance of SMEs under a financial crisis. Full article
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