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Effectiveness and Efficiency of SME Innovation Policy
foreman-peck, james s. - Economics Section, Cardiff Business School - 2012
manufacturing SMEs. By focussing on self-reported innovation the study achieves a wider coverage of the effects of SME innovation …. Combining these two results and comparing the outlays on SME innovation policy with the estimated effects suggests that policy … was efficient as well as effective. There is evidence that SME tax credits were expensive compared with earlier support …
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The relevance of linking favourable business environments with embeddedness SMEs in rural areas of the Goriška region, Slovenia
Irma, Potočnik-Slavič - In: European Countryside 3 (2011) 3, pp. 183-197
Contemporary Slovene rural areas as multifunctional localities with heterogeneous and mosaic structures and, exposed to enormous restructuring, are trapped between traditional processes and structures on one side and modern development processes on the other. Goriška (predominately a rural...
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Expanding horizons: local embeddedness and local engagement among small firms in the European countryside
Andrew, Copus; Alexandre, Dubois; Moa, Hedström - In: European Countryside 3 (2011) 3, pp. 164-182
The relative importance for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), of local embeddedness and engagement with the wider economic and technical environment has been a subject of debate, in the context of regional development, for some years. There is increasingly general acceptance that both...
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How does Networking Impact the SMEs Growth
Karin, Širec; Barbara, Bradač - In: Organizacija 42 (2009) 2, pp. 59-66
Today's market conditions are forcing companies to adapt to changes in order to survive, grow and be competitive. Such changes include inter-company cooperation and networks, which allow for competition and innovation in a dynamic environment. Today, almost all industries are affected by the...
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Organizational Mental Map and Conative Competences
Darko, Kovač; Andrej, Bertoncelj - In: Organizacija 41 (2008) 4, pp. 127-135
Employees with their knowledge, skills, behavior and personal traits impact the organizational learning. The concept of organizational mental map and conative competences, as inborn underlying characteristic that is influenced by employees being involved as well as endogenous and exogenous...
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A Biographical Approach to Researching Leadership and Entrepreneurship Development Processes in a Small Business Context
Jones, Karen; Sambrook, Sally; Henley, Andrew; Norbury, … - Bangor Business School, Bangor University - 2011
a small business context. It is relevant to wide ranging local, national and European policies to develop SME … entrepreneurial leadership practice and SME growth. Leadership is probably the most important factor to business success (Analoui and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011010108
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THE STRATEGY CONFIGURATION OF CHINESE SMEs
TANG, ZHI; HULL, CLYDE EIRÍKUR - In: Journal of Enterprising Culture (JEC) 19 (2011) 03, pp. 229-259
This paper investigates how Chinese SMEs configure marketing, cost-control, and innovation strategies in order to attain better organizational effectiveness. Rather than the more standard approach of suggesting that SMEs focus exclusively on one strategy, we hypothesize that when a strategy...
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IMPLICATIONS OF THE SME OWNER-MANAGER'S BUSINESS VENTURING MODE: COMPARING FOUNDERS, ACQUIRERS AND SUCCESSORS
RAYMOND, LOUIS; CADIEUX, LOUISE; ST-PIERRE, JOSÉE - In: Journal of Enterprising Culture (JEC) 20 (2012) 01, pp. 57-81
The entrepreneurship literature teaches us that the aspirations and competence of SME owner-managers as well as their …
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THE ROLE OF GENERATIONAL COHORTS: COMPARING APPROACHES TO INNOVATION USING INTERNAL NETWORKS
FARR-WHARTON, ROD; FARR-WHARTON, BEN; BRUNETTO, YVONNE; … - In: International Journal of Innovation Management (ijim) 18 (2014) 04, pp. 1450028-1
differences between SME owners/managers in Australia and Italy. The paper used interviews from SME owner/managers from Italy and … as a potential innovation is the norms of the SME owner/manager, irrespective of the country. …
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A risk mitigation model in SME’s open innovation projects
CORAŞ, Eliza Laura; TANŢĂU, Adrian Dumitru - In: Management & Marketing 8 (2013) 2
SMEs are slightly overlookedin the open innovation literature, whichprovides a scarcity of studies on therisks residing in open innovationprojects involving SMEs and even fewerattempts to assess the mitigationpotential of these dangers. The limitedliterature written on SMEs and openinnovation...
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