less. Laggard firms, we suggest, should instead achieve productivity growth through efficient exploitation of existing … technologies and imitation of industry leaders. Employment growth in leader firms is encouraged whereas growth of backward firms is … upper quantiles (corresponding to the leader firms) whereas the innovative efforts of laggard firms are valued significantly …

firms. Previous findings are not easily applied to the small business literature, and assumptions about the benefits of BSC … effects of SME's use of BSC in terms of financial performance and innovation outcomes. Our arguments are based on the … developmental stage of the firm may influence this trade-off. Based on a survey of 201 SMEs in Spain, we found that firms using BSC …

-making, exporting and performance. It is found that managers' independence is positively associated with firms' financial performance …

A persistent theme in the academic literature on technological innovation is that incumbent enterprises have great … difficulty crossing the abyss created by a radical technological innovation. It is argued that incumbents go into decline, while … performance in markets shaken by a radical technological innovation …

innovation success on organizational performance using path analysis. The obtained results indicated direct positive and …

address one question: Does it matter how firms diversify? We find that geographical diversification increases the probability …

productivity growth of smaller firms, nonfrontier businesses, and of firms in smaller economies and in post-2004 EU member … important in translating the changing structure of GVCs into faster productivity growth of these non-frontier firms. …-country firm-level data from ORBIS, the paper finds that changing position within GVCs can play a role in the catch up of firms …