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A LOG LINEAR ANALYSIS OF FACTORS AFFECTING PERFORMANCE OF EUROPEAN MANUFACTURING SMEs
Beneki, Christina; Papastathopoulos, Avraam - In: International Journal of Management and Marketing Research 4 (2011) 3, pp. 75-93
€™, ‘Steel’ and ‘Furniture’ industries consisted of 1.716 telephone interviews with ICT decision-makers in seven … study, concern employment of ICT practitioners, investments in ICTs, product-services innovations related to or enabled by …
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EUKLEED : an Establishment level comprehensive data base for Germany
Görzig, Bernd - 2010
Many firm level studies rely on readily available databases as COMPUSTAT, based on published balance sheets. While bigger firms are quite reliable described in this data set, small and medium sized firms (SMEs) are not covered, bearing the danger that the conclusions might be biased. To include...
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A Log Linear Analysis of Factors Affecting Performance of European Manufacturing SMEs
Beneki, Christina - 2013
'Furniture' industries consisted of 1.716 telephone interviews with ICT decision-makers in seven selected EU countries (UK … ICT practitioners, investments in ICTs, product-services innovations related to or enabled by ICTs, adoption of e …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013092227
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Business Constraints and Growth Potential of Micro and Small Manufacturing Enterprises in Uganda
Ishengoma, Esther K. - 2012
Ugandan micro- and small enterprises (MSEs) still perform poorly. The paper utilizes data collected in Uganda in March and April 2003 to analyze the business constraints faced by these MSEs. Using a stratified random sampling, a sample of 265 MSEs were interviewed. The study focuses on the 105...
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Low-Cost Import Competition : Do Small Firms Respond Differently?
Colantone, Italo - 2010
We investigate the impact of import competition from low-cost countries on the exit of domestic firms from the manufacturing industries of eight European countries. We find a significant positive impact on the exit of large firms, while small firms are not directly affected. The empirical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013144854
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Determinants of fast-growing SMEs' concentration in the Russian regions
Zemtsov, Stepan; Barinova, Vera; Sorokina, Alla - 2015
SMEs play an important role in the development of regional innovative systems because of their potential to accept new technologies and show fast growing rates. There is an interdependence between emergence of fast growing SMEs ('gazelles') and innovative development of regions. High level of...
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How efficient is the implementation of structural funds committed to enhancing ICT adoption in SMEs?
Henriques, Carla Oliveira; Viseu, Clara - In: Journal of open innovation : technology, market, and … 8 (2022) 3, pp. 1-33
ICT specialists seem to be related to an underuse of ERDF funds dedicated to boosting ICT in SMEs. These findings might be …
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The Determinants of Growth for SMEs - A Longitudinal Study from French Manufacturing Firms
Levratto, Nadine; Zouikri, Messaoud; Tessier, Luc - 2011
This paper investigates the structural and strategic determinants of firm growth using a unique data set covering French firms with between 10 and 250 employees and active from 1997 through 2007. On the basis of the proposition that firm growth is not a purely random process, we consider a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014185208
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ICT and environmental innovations in a complementary fashion. Is the joint adoption by firms economically visible?
Antonioli, Davide; Cecere, Grazia - 2014
We analyse how the joint adoption of ICT practices and environmental innovation affect the labour productivity of firms … thediffusion and radicalness of ICT and EI, the higher might firm\rquote s productivitybe. As ICT are considered to be able to … for Emilia-Romagna manufacturing firms there are still wide margins for improving ICT-EIs integration in order to exploit …
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SMEs’ Formation of Minority International Joint Ventures and Level of Internationalization : The Moderating Role of a Global Versus Regional Focus
Pisani, Niccolò; Caldart, Adrián Atilio; Hopma, Jaël - 2021
The purpose of this paper is to investigate the relationship between the number of minority international joint ventures (MIJVs) formed and the level of internationalization attained in the context of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). We argue that this is an inverted U-shaped...
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