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could relate to. Key policy issues which the NTBFs consider important for their strategic growth included innovation …
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Using a sample of some 300 small independent businesses, drawn from Central London, the paper examines how entrepreneurial behaviour affects business performance. It is argued that small businesses motivated by a desire to grow in terms of sales and/or employees and to survive in a dynamic and...
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innovation. In order to deepen and enrich our understanding of these experiences, respondents were asked to reconstruct their … secure long‐term resourcing in both financial and knowledge terms. Secondly, they saw innovation as part of their long …
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. However, where innovation is measured by inputs (specifically R & D), providers of credit appear less comfortable. Three other …, and the extent to which innovation and other business and owner-manager characteristics are influential.  …
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internationalization and innovation. Supported by a resource-based framework of early internationalizing firms, the authors investigated … multiple conditions for the relationship between internationalization and innovation relative to gender in nascent companies … countries from the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor. Based on a model of seven factors (internationalization, innovation, gender …
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innovation activities at the micro-level in small firms, using interviews and thematic analysis. Findings – The findings reveal …
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diffusion of an innovation in a small firm. Design/methodology/approach – The research used a qualitative approach involving … interviews, referring to archival documentation and observations to understand the actions required for diffusing an innovation … diffusion of an innovation. It can also be learnt that these institutional actions can be vitally important for the growth and …
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’s innovation on the development of reputation in the early years of a new venture from a knowledge-based approach. Design … from the knowledge-based view. The findings confirm that innovation and prior knowledge play important roles in the … new firm. The entrepreneur’s stock of knowledge does not reveal itself as a significant determinant of innovation and …
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