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Barriers to Innovation in SMEs: Can the Internationalization of R&D Mitigate their Effects?
Tiwari, Rajnish; Buse, Stephan - 2007
competition spurred by the globalization of the world economies. Even small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are no more immune … to the challenges that the globalization brings about. It is a remarkable, and in certain instances worrisome, situation … employment.However, opportunities presented by the globalization and the entwined, simultaneous pressure to innovate opens for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009457681
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Upgrading the System of Innovation in Late-Industrialising Countries -The Role of Transnational Corporations in Thailand's Manufacturing Sector
Martin Berger - 2005
The objective of this thesis is to investigate the potential contribution of transnational corporations (TNC) to the upgrading of systems of innovation in late-industrialising countries. This study looks specifically at TNC-affiliierter in Thailand’s manufacturing sector and compares them with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009429012
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Small Firms and Job Creation during a Recession and Recovery
Davidsson, Per; Lindmark, Leif; Olofsson, Christer - 1998
of large firms. With regard to regional economic well-being it is concluded that relatively vivid SME activity has a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009437732
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Conceptual and Empirical Challenges in the Study of Firm Growth
Davidsson, Per; Wiklund, Johan - 2000
specifically on growth, we also have the observation that longitudinal designs are generally lacking in entrepreneurship research … longitu-dinal studies in entrepreneurship research as a major impediment (Aldrich & Baker, 1997, p. 389; Sex-ton, 1997, p. 407 …
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Knowledge Management Processes in Growth-oriented SMEs: An Atlantic Canadian Perspective
MacDonald, Harry Douglas - 2010
ABSTRACTCompetitive pressure and desire for success drive enterprises in general to involve in knowledge acquisition and dissemination activities that are becoming increasingly significant in the rapid changing and globalising economic world. In addition, with the increased mobility of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009465993
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Methodological Approaches to Entrepreneurship: Past research and Suggestions for the Future
Davidsson, Per - 2005
This journal aims at developing and sharing some ideas on methodological development in entrepreneurship research … literature as regards what "entrepreneurship" is, and what entrepreneurship research should study, it may be useful to first set … entrepreneurship as a scholarly domain it is important that the phenomenon called "entrepreneurship" be defined as unambiguously as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009483418
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The business platform : developing an instrument to gauge and assist the development of young firms
Davidsson, Per; Klofsten, Magnus - 2003
The research presented here addresses the following problems that we perceive in research on the development of young firms. First, we feel there is a lack of holistic, yet quantifiable and generalizable ways to assess the state of newly started firms. Quantitative research typically relies on...
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The development of Saudi Arabian Entrepreneurship and Knowledge society
Alessa, Adlah A.; Alajmi, Shayma Hussain - 2017
the entrepreneurship's development in Saudi Arabia and contributes to the attainment of the knowledge society. We used the … analysis. We found that the impact on Saudi Arabia entrepreneurship, project participation and execution are reliant on support …
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