We examine whether a company's corporate reputation gained from their CSR activities and a company leader's reputation …

Korean government has invested significant amount of resources through credit guarantee funds to promote SMEs survival …

Italian Manufacturing. The latter represents an interesting case study due to the prevalence of small family business and a … system and the lagged demographic structure. -- Firm ; local human capital externalities ; Italy ; manufacturing ; wages …

This paper analyzes the patent propensity as an outcome of innovative activities of regional SMEs. To achieve the aims … firms designated as innovative SMEs by the government are not performing differently than general firms. Only the CEO … considered to actively promote SMEs innovativeness. …

Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are known to contribute significantly to aggregate economic growth. However …, little is known about the role played by management practices in SME growth since recession. We contribute to the literature … on SME growth by analysing longitudinal administrative data on firms' employment and turnover, taken from the UK …

entrepreneur in the innovation process. -- Innovation ; microenterprises ; SMEs ; development …

We examine the impact of management practices on firm performance among SMEs in Britain over the period 2011 … business register. We find that SMEs are less likely to use formal management practices than larger firms, but that such … returns are most apparent for those SMEs that invest in human resource management practices, such as training and performance …

responsibility (CSR), to what extent firms' productive characteristics influence managers' attitudes towards their CSR rating, and … whether their values in favour of CSR are positively correlated to firms' economic performance. Although a large proportion of … respondents express a favourable view of CSR and a willingness to participate in socially responsible activities, we find that the …