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Optimum pricing of mutual guarantees for credit

Kroll, Yoram; Cohen, Assaf - In: Small Business Economics 41 (2013) 1, pp. 253-262

The main finding of this paper is that under financial market impediments and asymmetric information, a mutually guaranteed and correctly schemed and priced insurance credit contract should have an abnormal actuarial profit. Such a contract improves welfare by simultaneously eliminating...

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Regional determinants of ICT new firm formation

Lasch, Frank; Robert, Frank; Roy, Frédéric - In: Small Business Economics 40 (2013) 3, pp. 671-686

The role of regional determinants in new entrepreneurs’ location decisions is analyzed in the French information and communication technologies (ICT) sector. As we focus on the emergence of this industry, our dataset includes every new ICT firm in France in the period 1993–2001. We find...

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The impact of firm and industry characteristics on small firms’ capital structure

Degryse, Hans; Goeij, Peter; Kappert, Peter - In: Small Business Economics 38 (2012) 4, pp. 431-447

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Quantity and quality of information and SME financial structure

Caneghem, Tom; Campenhout, Geert - In: Small Business Economics 39 (2012) 2, pp. 341-358

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Entrepreneurship and dynamic capabilities: how firm age and size affect the ‘capability enhancement–SME performance’ relationship

Arend, Richard - In: Small Business Economics 42 (2014) 1, pp. 33-57

The entrepreneurship and dynamic capabilities literature adds to our understanding of how strategic change can drive firm performance. We draw on a recent survey of US SMEs to determine whether entrepreneurial ventures have dynamic capabilities, and, if so, whether differences in the...

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Effectiveness and efficiency of SME innovation policy

Foreman-Peck, James - In: Small Business Economics 41 (2013) 1, pp. 55-70

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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Dynamic experimental internationalization: Strategy of SMEs from a transition economy

Thai, Mai; Chong, Li - In: Journal of International Entrepreneurship 11 (2013) 4, pp. 370-399

This paper presents a model of dynamic experimental internationalization which we developed by employing Straussian Grounded Theory to explain how and why small- and medium-sized enterprises in a transitional economy (Vietnam) internationalize. Unlike other knowledge-based internationalization...

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SMEs and networks: Overcoming the liability of outsidership

Schweizer, Roger - In: Journal of International Entrepreneurship 11 (2013) 1, pp. 80-103

description of how an SME actively transitions from being an outsider to an insider for its internationalization-relevant network … SME actively overcomes liability of outsidership when internationalizing its activities, i.e., (1) Realization of the …

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A taxonomy of small- and medium-sized international family firms

Swoboda, Bernhard; Olejnik, Edith - In: Journal of International Entrepreneurship 11 (2013) 2, pp. 130-157

This study develops a taxonomy of small- and medium-sized family firms that internationalise and discusses the different configurations of these firms based on firm culture (in terms of organisational orientations), firm strategy (in terms of differentiation, cost leadership and marketing...

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Managerial characteristics and entrepreneurial internationalization: A study of Tunisian SMEs

Omri, Waleed; Becuwe, Audrey - In: Journal of International Entrepreneurship 12 (2014) 1, pp. 8-42

Growing internationalization has sparked increasing interest in any factor which could strengthen a firm’s ability to develop a long-term competitive edge. One of the main factors which determine a firm’s international behavior is the characteristics of its management team. The aim of this...

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