. In contrast, marketing innovation does not considerably affect Italian SMEs growth. When restricting our focus to a sub …This article aims at understanding the determinants of Italian small- and medium-sized enterprises' (SMEs) turnover … from the Far East has rendered this production system vulnerable, challenging its international competitiveness. Building …

concentration upon innovation, focusing on robust findings, questions of interpretation, and the identification of major gaps. We … also consider the more modest literature that considers the effect on innovation of firm characteristics other than size …

, innovation and economic growth. We provide empirical evidence that the reforms carried out under the EU Single Market Programme … with a subsequent increase in innovation intensity and productivity growth for manufacturing sectors. In our analysis we … reforms on average profitability, and the effects of profitability on innovation and productivity growth. …

decade, before the apparition of the current crisis. An analysis of the deterioration in competitiveness points to supply … offshoring the entire production process. Restoring competitiveness will require steps to strengthen the country’s growth …, promoting innovation, reducing the tax burden, boosting competition and creating favourable conditions for businesses to grow …

hierarchical levels. In many SMEs, however, such formal mechanisms are complemented or even replaced by informal social networks … among managers and employees. Despite the relevance of intraorganizational networks, past research on SMEs, however, was … focused mainly on the interorganizational level of analysis. To cover this gap, we map ego networks of senior managers in SMEs …

his paper discusses the incentives for innovation when liability is limited or not. Clearly innovative activity … Innovation Panel" of the Center for European Economic Research from the years 1995 and 1996. We use only small and medium sized …