Effect of technology strategy on organizational performance of manufacturing companies: A note on how to conduct a data screening and preliminary analysis

Abstract

The increased awareness of technology strategy in contemporary firms has resulted in the postulation that associated behaviours would enable realistic advantage to be realised as a result of a firm's differentiation from competitors through such actions. Thus, the purpose of this study was to gather data and conduct a preliminary analysis of the influence of technology strategy on the performance of Malaysian manufacturing organizations. A total of 354 respondents were drawn from the Federation of Malaysian Manufacturers' (FMM) Directory. Probability sampling was used in this investigation. As a result, an assessment of missing data, identification of outliers, and finally, skewness and kurtosis were assessed. Additionally, Harman's technique was utilised to investigate solutions containing unrotated factors. Similarly, all exercises were developed using the Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS) version 22 software, and preliminary analysis indicates that the data satisfy the criteria for multivariate analysis. The findings will serve as a springboard for additional investigation, with the goal of providing insight may be diversified in a fast changing environment