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academics alike. Learning and innovation play important roles and more critical is the mediating factors and how it impacts the … learning and innovation in youth-owned small businesses in Lagos, Nigeria, from a cross-sectional perspective. Design …/methodology/approach - Leveraging the sectoral system of innovation theory, we use a primary research method and data obtained from a structured …
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Financial constraints can severely limit the development of small and medium size enterprises (SMEs) and are very likely to affect innovative firms. In order to lower the barriers to firm growth, in 2014 the European Commission introduced the SME Instrument with the specific aim to support...
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Objective - The purpose of this paper is to identify the relationship between technological factors and innovation … companies.Findings - This analysis involved the factors that influence innovation adoption, which are the technological factors … perceived usefulness. The result shows that an innovation-adoption is significantly influenced by technological factors …
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“Integrated system for innovation management in SMEs”, code PN-II-PT-PCCA-2013-4-1319, under way at the Business Administration … Romanian SMEs in adopting the open innovation principles. In order to reach this objective, the authors analysed the available … statistical data for the period 2002-2012 concerning the trend of the SMEs’ weight in the total innovation businesses compared to …
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Slack resources are usually identified as an endogenous motivation for firms' innovation. Still, it is crucial to … assess the importance of slack in supporting innovation, especially in different institutional contexts. Therefore, the paper … small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in Viet Nam. The analysis reveals that slack resources promote innovation in different …
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effect on innovation. It is also noted that entrepreneurial attitudes, such as openness to change and self …-transcendence, have a mediating role in the positive impact of values on innovation. The article contributes to the literature by showing … to influence innovation in small businesses. …
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This article aims to identify the factors that influence the digital transformation process in the restaurant industry. The proposed theoretical framework differentiates three groups of conditioning factors of digitalisation in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in this sector: (1) the...
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The aim of this research is to examine the relationship between innovation and performance in culinary sector MSME in … Indonesia. This research also examines the mediating role of competitive strategies on the correlation of innovation in SME … innovation was directly, positively, and significantly related to the performance of SMEs. Furthermore, the analysis found that …
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This paper assesses the role of relationship lending in explaining simultaneously the innovation activity of Small and … SME's increased propensity to introduce product innovation. We further discuss the financial and non-financial channels …
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In den vergangenen Jahrzehnten hat die Internationalisierung von kleinen und mittleren Unternehmen, insbesondere im verarbeitenden Gewerbe, stark zugenommen. Über die Auslandsaktivitäten des Mittelstandes ist jedoch - anders als bei großen, multinationalen Unternehmen - bislang wenig bekannt....
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