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the organization's agility. In turn, through innovation, companies become agile. The presented research confirms that … authors also specify important role of IT system in introducing product innovations and innovation processes … innovation. Innovation in an enterprise constitute an impulse to take new challenges, which perfectly fits into the paradigm of …
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employment, especially among young and small companies. Impacts on the productivity are, however, uncertain. Cooperation of … help firms to grow larger but do not improve their productivity. …
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New product development is an important innovation that should be done to meet consumers' new trends. This paper is … prominent as it discusses new product development through the inactive problem perspective in SMEs in Indonesia as a way to … explore customers' expectations, which are often challenging to analyze. The capability to develop a new product based on the …
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This paper explores the procurement of public buildings in local authorities in the UK under the Private Finance Initiative (PFI) and its consequences for small and medium sized enterprises. Following an outline of the development of PFI in the UK, the paper explains the peculiarities of local...
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The research project KompNet 2011 - Factors determining the success of regional innovation networks, funded by the … partners in innovation projects, nevertheless in-house development is the most important form of creating innovative products … intensity, are very important for the innovation success. Tacit and codified transfer channels are equally important for the …
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The paper analyzes the link between human capital and firm-level productivity in five Asian countries. It draws on a … productivity. The productivity of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) is enhanced by a higher level of skills and education …
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We examine the link between new employees in leading positions and subsequent productivity in small- and medium … positive and statistically significant impact on the productivity of the hiring SME. Interestingly, our results suggest that … professionals with experience from international firms and enterprise groups contribute the most to total factor productivity …
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We examine heterogeneous productivity effects of hiring top workers on small and medium-sized enterprises, using … longitudinal employer-employee data. We find the productivity effect to be stronger for firms with higher absorptive capacity in …
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cooperation and different forms of innovation, i.e. product, process, marketing and organizational innovation. In a final step we …In this paper, we analyze the relationships between different types of innovation and collaboration, given the varying … success of regional innovation networks', which examines the innovation activities of small and medium-sized enterprises (SME …
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SMEs. In comparison, only external R&D showed positive association to product and process innovation for Pakistani SMEs …The purpose of this study is to investigate the impact of internal and external R&D on SMEs innovation performance … internal and external R&D positively affects the product and process innovations. However, this effect is stronger for Indian …
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