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Innovation, credit constraints, and trade credit: Evidence from a cross-country study
Bönte, Werner; Nielen, Sebastian - 2010
This paper studies the relationship between trade credit and innovation. While trade credit is well researched in the … finance literature, its link to innovation has been neglected in prior research. We argue that innovative small and medium … partners may have incentives to offer trade credit especially to innovative SMEs. The relationship between innovation and trade …
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Kleine und mittlere Unternehmen der Informations- und Kommunikationswirtschaft in Nordrhein-Westfalen
Maaß, Frank; Schröder, Christian; Wolter, Hans-Jürgen - 2013
and development (R&D) - their innovation goals in the medium term. However, the shortage of skilled workers turns out to … be a hindering factor in the innovation process . By contrast, most ICT companies have not been sufficiently suc …-cessful at winning other firms to build R&D co-operations to overcome hurdles to innovation. …
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Organization Context and Human Resource Management in the Small Firm
de Kok, Jan; Uhlaner, Lorraine M. - 2001
This paper examines the relationship between organization contextual variables and humanresource management (HRM) practices in small firms. The proposed model is based on anintegration of theoretical perspectives, including the resource-based approach, institutionaltheory, transaction cost...
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Firm growth and productivity growth: evidence from a panel VAR
Coad, Alex; Broekel, Tom - 2007
This paper offers new insights into the processes of firm growth by applying a reducedform vector autoregression (VAR) model to longitudinal panel data on French manufacturing firms. We observe the co-evolution of key variables such as growth of employment, sales, and gross operating surplus, as...
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Firm growth and scaling of growth rate variance in multiplant firms
Coad, Alex - 2007
While Gibrat's Law assumes that growth rate variance is independent of size, empirical work has usually found a negative relationship between growth rate variance and firm growth. Using data on French manufacturing firms, we observe a relatively low, but statistically significant, negative...
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Growth processes of Italian manufacturing firms
Coad, Alex; Rao, Rekha; Tamagni, Federico - 2008
We apply a reduced-form vector autoregression model to analyze the growth processes of Italian manufacturing firms, 1989-1997. We focus in particular on lead-lag associations describing the coevolution of employment growth, sales growth, growth of profits and labour productivity growth....
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Disentangling the firm growth process: evidence from a recursive panel VAR
Coad, Alexander - 2007
We attempt to describe the coevolution of employment growth, sales growth and growth of profits in a panel of French manufacturing firms 1996-2004. Our analysis entails 'recursive' panel vector autoregressions, whereby we impose the structure of employment growth leading to contemporaneous sales...
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Domestic employment effects of offshoring: Empirical evidence from Finland
Deschryvere, Matthias; Kotiranta, Annu - 2008
-house offshoring of R&D has a negative effect. Specific for the manufacturing sector is that offshore outsourcing of production also …
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Mittelstandsfreundliche Gestaltung von öffentlichen Ausschreibungen
Schneider, Sebastian; Reiff, Annika; Schlömer-Laufen, … - 2023
Die Bundesregierung möchte die öffentliche Vergabe von Aufträgen im Zuge ihrer Novellierung nachhaltiger und effizienter gestalten, ohne dabei die Zugangshürden für KMU zu erhöhen. Unsere Analyse öffentlich verfügbarer Stellungnahmen zur Novellierung der öffentlichen Vergabe in...
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Mittelstand im Wandel
Welter, Friederike; May-Strobl, Eva; Wolter, Hans-Jürgen; … - 2014
Im deutschen Sprachraum spricht man vom "Mittelstand" - international wird dagegen der KMU-Begriff verwandt. Aber beschreiben beide Begriffe dasselbe Phänomen? Dieser Beitrag analysiert die Begrifflichkeiten von Mittelstand und KMU sowie die Begriffe, die grundlegend für das Verständnis des...
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