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The impact of business support services for small and medium enterprises on firm performance in low- and middle-income countries : a meta-analysis
Cravo, Túlio; Piza, Caio - 2016
Interventions designed to support small and medium enterprises (SMEs) are popular among policy makers, given the role SMEs play in job creation around the world. Business support interventions in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) are often based on the assumption that market failures and...
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The effectiveness of management training programs : a meta-analytic review
Busso, Matias; Park, Kyunglin; Irazoque, Nicolás - 2023
We conduct a meta-analysis of 44 studies and 68 different managerial skills training programs, with the aim of identifying program characteristics that can lead to more effective public policies promoting firm growth and entrepreneurship. We synthesize 431 estimates to assess the effects of...
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Frugal sustainability : a new perspective to foster corporate sustainability
Achtelik, Timo; Herstatt, Cornelius; Tiwari, Rajnish - 2022
Frugal innovations are increasingly considered in the context of sustainability and are seen to have promising … potential for the realization of global sustainability goals. So far, the discourse has focused on the question of whether and … principles can be used to further substantiate the link between frugal innovations and corporate sustainability as well as to use …
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Adoption of eco and circular economy-innovation in Italy : exploring different firm profiles
Mazzanti, Massimiliano; Nicolli, Francesco; Pareglio, … - 2022
protection, eco-innovation) of the ecological/sustainability transition. If the one-size-fits-all has not been proved a viable …
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Innovation, circular economy practices and organisational settings : empirical evidence from Italy
Antonioli, Davide; Ghisetti, Claudia; Pareglio, Stefano; … - 2022
This paper builds on the available knowledge on what drives firms' production choices towards circular economy practices to shed new light on a so far quite neglected dimension: the role of organizational settings. Being the transition to a more circular economy systemic in nature, it draws not...
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Frugal sustainability : a new perspective to foster corporate sustainability
Achtelik, Timo; Herstatt, Cornelius; Tiwari, Rajnish - 2022 - Updated April 2022
Frugal innovations are increasingly considered in the context of sustainability and are seen to have promising … potential for the realization of global sustainability goals. So far, the discourse has focused on the question of whether and … principles can be used to further substantiate the link between frugal innovations and corporate sustainability as well as to use …
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Which innovations for circular business models? : a product life-cycle approach
Chioatto, Elisa; Zecca, Emy; D'Amato, Alessio - 2020
The Circular Economy concept has emerged to face current unsustainable economic trends. Circularity requires to go beyond mainstream linear business models in favour of new design strategies and production processes able to support an efficient use and a continuous flow of resources. Clarifying...
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The relationship between environmental efficiency and manufacturing firm's growth
Mazzanti, Massimiliano; Cainelli, Giulio; Zoboli, Roberto - 2008
This paper investigates the empirical link between emission intensity and economic growth, using a very large data set of 61,219 Italian manufacturing firms over the period 2000-2004. As a measure of lagged environmental performance (efficiency) at firm level we exploit NAMEA sector for CO2,...
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Environmentally-oriented innovative strategies and firm performances in services : micro-evidence from Italy
Cainelli, Giulio (contributor);  … - 2007
This paper aims at analysing the role of the environment in innovative strategies based on firm economic performance indicators such as employment, turnover, and labour productivity growth. We exploit a unique dataset of 773 Italian service firms with 20 or more employees comprising 1993-1995...
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Do corporate tax cuts boost economic growth?
Gechert, Sebastian; Heimberger, Philipp - 2021
The empirical literature on the impact of corporate taxes on economic growth reaches ambiguous conclusions: corporate tax cuts increase, reduce, or do not significantly affect growth. We apply metaregression methods to a novel dataset with 441 estimates from 42 primary studies. There is evidence...
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