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Strategic Capabilities and Performance: An Application of Resource-Based View in Italian Food SMEs

Carraresi, Laura; Mamaqi, Xhevrie; Albisu, Luis Miguel; … - International European Forum on Innovation and System … - 2012

consumer patterns, affect especially SMEs, which are forced to develop successful strategies in order to survive on the market …. Thus, it is useful to understand the potential sources of competitive advantage for SMEs. Following the theoretical model … literature: innovation, marketing, network, and acquiring information. The analysis is carried out in 67 food SMEs located in …

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Supply Chain Competences: The Case of the Traditional Food Sector in the EU

Molnar, Adrienn; Kuehne, Bianca; Sebok, Andras; … - International European Forum on Innovation and System … - 2011

Since over the last twenty years the reduction of trade barriers, the increasing liberalisation, the advancement in ICT have determined a growth in the horizontal and vertical competition among firms in the chain. Therefore, today more than ever they are pressured to develop appropriate...

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Electronic Commodity Market System for Food Networks

Fomina, Julia; Fomin, Eduard - International European Forum on Innovation and System … - 2011

On the agricultural market, like any other market, there are transaction costs such as “discovering what the relevant prices are, the costs of negotiating and concluding a separate contract for each exchange transaction1”, and others. According to our research the average level of...

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Perceived Technological Regimes: An Empirical Analysis of the Apulian Wine Industry

Muscio, Alessandro; Nardone, Gianluca; Stasi, Antonio - International European Forum on Innovation and System … - 2012

Technological regimes define the technological environment in which innovative and learning activities take place within each sector of the economy. However, in our view technological regimes must be interpreted and elaborated by each organisation operating in a specific sector in order to be...

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Relationship Quality and Innovation Capacity of Chains: The Case of the Traditional Food Sector in the EU

Gellynck, Xavier; Kuhne, Bianka; Weaver, Robert D. - International European Forum on Innovation and System … - 2010

The purpose of the paper is to explore how the perceived relationship quality is related to the innovation capacity in chains of the traditional food sector. Based on suggestions from theory and previous studies, empirical evidence is drawn from a survey of 90 traditional food chains including...

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Knowledge Exchange in Innovation Networks: How Networks Support open Innovation in Food SMEs

Kühne, Bianka; Lefebvre, Virginie; Gellynck, Xavier - International European Forum on Innovation and System … - 2013

enhancing the innovativeness and learning capabilities of micro, small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs). Our findings confirm … the importance of networks in the process of knowledge exchange and innovation for SMEs in the food sector. The most … implications are posed towards network members, i.e. the SMEs, network coordinators and researchers. …

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