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Innovation in small and medium-sized companies : knowledge integration mechanisms and the role of top managers' networks
Fliaster, Alexander; Golly, Tanja - In: Management revue : socio-economic studies 25 (2014) 2, pp. 125-147
study shows that these social networks are an essential driver of knowledge integration and innovation. …
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Major challenges facing small and medium-sized enterprises in Asia and solutions for mitigating them
Yoshino, Naoyuki; Taghizadeh-Hesary, Farhad - 2016
Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are the backbone of the Asian economy. They make up more than 98% of all Asian businesses that provide two out of three private sector jobs in the region. Therefore, it is vitally important for Asia's economic success to have fully functioning support...
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CSR practices and SME innovativeness in Greece
Korra, Efthymia; Giotopoulos, Ioannis; Tsakanikas, Aggelos - In: Entrepreneurship and the sustainable development goals, (pp. 119-132). 2018
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Innovative performance of Iranian knowledge-based firms : large firms or SMEs?
Noori, Javad; Bagheri Nasrabadi, Mahdi; Yazdi, Najmoddin; … - In: Technological forecasting & social change : an … 122 (2017), pp. 179-185
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Innovation and investment funding in the post-crisis period : have financing patterns and financial constraints of German firms changed?
Schäfer, Dorothea; Stephan, Andreas - In: Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung 86 (2017) 1, pp. 129-142
action plan, funding innovation and investment activities, complements the behavior of German SMEs. We find fairly stable …
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To what extent do regional effects influence firms' capital structure? : the case of Southern Italian SMEs'
Butzbach, Olivier; Sarno, Domenico - In: International Journal of Financial Studies : open … 7 (2019) 1/3, pp. 1-24
There is tremendous interest, in the economic literature, for the determinants of firms’ capital structure decisions. A rich body of empirical works now exists that purports to identify firm- and country-level factors affecting firms’ financing patterns. In addition, more recently, a new...
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Exports of Spanish manufacturing firms and financial constraints
Mañez Castillejo, Juan A.; Vicente-Chirivella, Óscar - In: Business research quarterly : BRQ 24 (2021) 1, pp. 53-90
We investigate the role of financial constraints on firms' exporting behavior, including firms' export decision, export intensity, firms starting to export decision, and exports persistence. Our financial constraints variable is a synthetic variable that summarizes information on different...
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Business leadership strategies under tenuous economic conditions
Jaroudi, Hicham; Hammoud, Mohamad S. - In: International journal of applied management science 11 (2019) 4, pp. 314-332
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The link between R&D, innovation and productivity : are micro firms different?
Baumann, Julian; Kritikos, Alexander - 2016
We analyze the link between R&D, innovation, and productivity in MSMEs with a special focus on micro firms with fewer … the probability of reporting innovation, with a larger effect size for product than for process innovations. Moreover …, micro firms benefit in a comparable way from innovation processes as larger firms, as they are similarly able to increase …
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Firm size and innovation in the service sector
Audretsch, David B.; Hafenstein, Marian; Kritikos, Alexander - 2018
), allows for causal interpretation of the relationship between innovation output and labor productivity. We find that knowledge … intensive services benefit from innovation activities in the sense that these activities causally increase their labor …
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