Albaghdadi, Enas Nadher Mohammed <br/><br/>
RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN BUSINESS MODEL INNOVATION AND CORPORATE PERFORMANCE / 
 THE MEDIATING ROLE OF MANAGEMENT ACCOUNTING AND CONTROL SYSTEMS, AND SUSTAINABLE INNOVATION ORIENTATION 
ENAS NADHER MOHAMMED ALBAGHDADI; SUPERVISOR: ASST. PROF. DR. HUSAM RJOUB 
 - 195 sheets;  31 cm.  Includes CD 
<br/><br/>Thesis (PH.D.) - Cyprus International University. Institute of Graduate Studies and Research Business Administration Department 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliography (sheets 154-195) 
<br/><br/> ABSTRACT<br/>The issues of business model innovations (BMI) and corporate performance have been<br/>receiving a tremendous attention from scholars, business captains, and other<br/>stakeholders. This is owing to the dynamic and competitive of the contemporary<br/>business environment which makes it imperative for every organization to devise a<br/>strategy that will enable them to achieve competitive advantage in the market where they<br/>operates. The literature shows some gaps that in the understanding of this relationship,<br/>as the studies in this area of research are more of theoretical than empirical. Thus, this<br/>study aimed at answer the following research questions: i) do business model<br/>innovations (BMI) have a relationship with sustainable innovations orientation (SIO)? 2)<br/>What are the drivers and outcomes of sustainable innovations orientation? 3) do<br/>management accounting and control systems (MACS) have a relationship with<br/>sustainable innovation orientations? 4) Do business model innovation influence<br/>corporate performance (environmental performance, financial performance, employee<br/>performance, and sustainable process and product innovations) through sustainable<br/>innovation orientation? 5) Do management accounting and control systems influence<br/>corporate performance through sustainable innovation orientation?. In order to address<br/>these questions, 400 structured questionnaires were administered to the managers of the<br/>selected manufacturing companies in United Arab Emirate (UAE), out of which 355<br/>(88.75%) questionnaire were retrieved and utilized for further analysis. PLS-SEM was<br/>employed for the model structural testing with the SmartPLS 3 utilized for data<br/>processing. Our study revealed that BMI does not directly influence SIO, but has a direct<br/>relationship with MACS, while MACS has a direct relationship with SIO. While<br/>industry-related factor shows to be a significant driver of SIO, firm-related shows not to<br/>be a determinant. This study found environmental performance (environmental<br/>performance, financial performance, employee performance, and sustainable process and<br/>product innovations) to be the significant outcomes of sustainable innovation<br/>orientations. Thus, the argument of SIO influences the overall corporate performance<br/>was supported with our findings. In addition, it was established in this study that MACS<br/>partially mediates the relationship between BMI and SIO; while SIO partially mediates<br/>the relationship between the followings: MACS and sustainable process innovation;<br/>MACS and sustainable product innovations; MACS and environmental performance;<br/>and, MACS and financial performance. Lastly, the implications of the study and<br/>suggestion for future studies were addressed in the study. 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Management--Dissertations, Academic