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enterprises (SMEs). The specific objective of the study is better understanding of the application of collaborative technologies … in business, to find the effective factors to assist SMEs to remain competitive in the future. The paper stresses to find …?” The survey data shows SMEs are now technologically capable of performing the virtual collaborative team, but the …
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The appearance of relationship quality paradigm in the field of international business has resulted in growing need to … firm in the long-run. In the same light, this study attempts to empirically examine the impact of relationship quality on …
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This paper studies the effect of human capital on the regional entry of firms. An econometric model for a system of disjoint regions and frequency data is constructed, making the comparison between the regions a random discrete choice problem. Empirical evidence from Swedish labour market...
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This paper investigates whether firms innovate persistently or discontinuously over time using an innovation panel data set on German manufacturing and service firms for the period 1994-2002. We find that innovation behaviour is permanent at the firm-level to a very large extent. Using a dynamic...
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's aggregate exports. The data allows for a characterization of both the crosssectional distribution of Mexican exports, across … destinations and across exporting firms, and of the time-series variation in aggregate exports and its relation to time …-series variation in the export supply decisions of firms. It is found that the cross-sectional variation of exports is mostly accounted …
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for a sample of Italian SMEs operating in the manufacturing industry. After accounting for the under-reporting of R&D in … SMEs, our quantile regressions reveal that (i) R&D is associated with higher employment growth rates, higher hiring rates … and lower separation rates; (ii) R&D-induced exports are negatively related to employment growth and accessions and …
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Using a comprehensive dataset on the incidence of price-fixing across British manufacturing industries in the 1950s, I compare collusive and competitive industries and find evidence of a negative relationship between collusion and the labour productivity of larger firms relative to smaller...
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Purpose - The following article focuses on assessment of the evolution of digital transformation in SMEs in the … the pandemic to the current state. The individual data is obtained from a survey conducted among 18 SMEs. Small and medium … shows the evolution of digital transformation in the different building blocks of the BM Canvas for SMEs in the …
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enterprises (SMEs). The specific objective of the study is better understanding of the application of collaborative technologies … in business, to find the effective factors to assist SMEs to remain competitive in the future. The paper stresses to find …?” The survey data shows SMEs are now technologically capable of performing the virtual collaborative team, but the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014041587
Using data from the Community Innovation Survey for Belgium in two consecutive periods, this paper explores the relationship between firm-level innovation activities and the propensity to start exporting. To measure innovation, we include indicators of both innovative effort (R&D activities) as...
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