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Micro and Small Businesses’ Satisfaction With the UK Energy Market : Policy Implications
Deller, David - 2019
Competition and Market Authority's 2016 Energy Market Investigation recommended that a database of ‘disengaged' MSBs be …
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Cost of Regulatory Compliance for Small and Medium Enterprises in the Philippines
Jabagat, Christian Regie - 2021
It is widely recognized that small and medium enterprises (SMEs) are key drivers of the Philippine economy through their direct contributions to employment, value-added, exports, and entrepreneurial activities. SMEs also play a role in the industrial process and the inclusive development agenda,...
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A note on the effects of start-up competitions : experience from the Czech Business Plan Contest "Idea of the Year"
Dvouletý, Ondřej - In: Journal of innovation and entrepreneurship : JIE 12 (2023), pp. 1-12
The study contributes to the scholarly discussion on the effects of business plan competitions by assessing the survival and performance of the entrepreneurial teams participating in the Czech Business Plan Contest "Idea of the Year" during the years 2010-2015. The implemented research design...
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Effects of Facebook activities on the performance of start-ups : an empirical study in the German crafts business sector : eine empirische Studie im deutschen Handwerk
Pakura, Stefanie; Pakura, Adalbert - In: Die Betriebswirtschaft : DBW 75 (2015) 6, pp. 413-429
Die Nutzung von sozialen Netzwerken wie Facebook ist auf dem Vormarsch. Aber kann Facebook für Unternehmen ein entscheidendes Marketing- und Networking-Tool sein, das den Unternehmenserfolg unterstützt? Unser Auswertungen von 1.971 Firmen zeigen, dass die Aktivität auf Facebook durch den...
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Conglopolistic competition in small emerging economies : when large and diversified is beautiful
Fabella, Raul V. - 2016
to resist official and unofficial predation. Conglopolistic competition, the competition among conglomerates in many … markets, is largely in the non-traded goods sectors where foreign competition is not felt and market saturation is quickly … attained. We give show how conglopolistic competition is welfare-improving and give examples of how it boosts the collective …
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Productivity, Competitiveness, and Territories of the Italian Medium-Size Companies
Coltorti, Fulvio - 2017
The medium-sized firms (MEs) are the cutting edge of the Italian manufacturing sector. They have a crucial role in influencing the behavior of the local systems whose they are part (2/3 of the total firms are located in industrial districts). This study investigates the drivers of Italian MEs'...
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Assessing the "digital divide" and its regional determinants : evidence from a web-scraping analysis
Thonipara, Anita; Sternberg, Rolf G.; Proeger, Till; … - 2020
Following the 'death of distance' postulate, digitization may reduce or even eliminate the penalty of firms being located in rural areas compared with those in urban agglomerations. Despite many recent attempts to measure digitization effects across space, there remains a lack of empirical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012215113
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Drivers and Effects of Internationalising Innovation by SMEs
Rammer, Christian; Schmiele, Anja - 2008
resources, home market competition and innovationrelated location advantages for an SME's decision to engage in innovation … important for international innovation activities of SMEs. Fierce home market competition turns out to be rather an obstacle …
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No resilience without partners : a case study on German small and medium-sized enterprises in the context of COVID-19
Trunk, Anna; Birkel, Hendrik - In: Schmalenbach journal of business research : SBUR 74 (2022) 4, pp. 537-574
Much research has been conducted on the effects of COVID-19 on company and supply chain resilience. However, few contributions have focused on small and medium-sized enterprises. These companies are claimed to be the drivers of economic growth but often lack access to resources and alternatives...
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Financial investment constraints : a panel threshold application to German firm level data
Tarassow, Artur - 2015 - First version: September 2014, Revised version: August 2015
private firms in Germany. The core contention is that a firm's financial position contributes to its access to external …
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