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An empirical approach to marketing innovation in small and medium retailers: An application to the Spanish sector

Medrano, Natalia; Olarte-Pascual, Cristina - In: Contemporary Economics 10 (2016) 3, pp. 205-216

Although numerous studies explore innovation, most of them focus on technological innovations. It is currently difficult to focus exclusively on products and processes when discussing innovation because new ideas can transform any part of an organization's value chain. Indeed, marketing...

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The missing middle: Growing and strengthening Viet Nam's micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises

Co, Catherine Yap - 2017

We study the exporting and subcontracting decisions, mark-ups, market concentration, and growth of a panel of Vietnamese private micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises. Our main findings are as follows. First, we find that among subcontractors, subcontracting is a supplementary rather than...

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The board structure and firm performance in SMEs: Evidence from Spain

Arosa, Blanca; Iturralde, Txomin; Maseda, Amaia - In: Investigaciones Europeas de Dirección y Economía de … 19 (2013) 3, pp. 127-135

The aim is to analyse the efficiency of the board of directors as a corporate governance mechanism. For this purpose, we examine the effect of board composition, size, activity, leadership structure and CEO tenure on firm performance. To test our hypothesis we use a sample of 307 Spanish SMEs,...

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Digitalisierungskompetenzen in der Führungsebene im Mittelstand

Bijedić, Teita; Paschke, Max; Pasing, Philipp; … - 2018

competencies important for a leader of a digitized or digitizing company, while leaders of small and medium sized companies (SME …) have a more focussed view: Leaders of SME involved in services and manufacturing favour soft skills over IT competencies …, while leaders of SME which are focussing on hand-craft favour IT skills and self-competences over social skills. Based on …

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The Role of the Government in Entrepreneurship Development: Evidence from Bosnia and Herzegovina

Dzafic, Zijad; Babajic, Amra - In: Economic Review: Journal of Economics and Business 14 (2016) 1, pp. 68-79

SME sector in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) as a transition country may play an important role in the process of economic …) attitudes of entrepreneurs in the private sector towards the role of government in SME development through provision of … government sector towards the role of government in SME development through the provision of assistance to SMEs in BiH. The paper …

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Italy must foster high growth industries

Gebauer, Stefan; Kritikos, Alexander S.; Kriwoluzky, … - In: DIW Weekly Report 9 (2019) 7/9, pp. 65-74

Italy has yet to recover from the economic consequences of the financial and sovereign debt crisis that began more than a decade ago. In addition to losing 1.4 million jobs across the manufacturing and construction sectors, new industries driving growth across the EU, such as knowledge-intensive...

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Italien braucht neue Impulse für Wachstumsbranchen

Gebauer, Stefan; Kritikos, Alexander S.; Kriwoluzky, … - In: DIW Wochenbericht 86 (2019) 9, pp. 111-121

Italien hat sich gut zehn Jahre nach der Finanz- und Staatsschuldenkrise nicht von deren wirtschaftlichen Folgen erholt. Verantwortlich sind zum einen die traditionellen Wachstumstreiber Italiens, nämlich das verarbeitende Gewerbe und der Bausektor, die beide einen Rückgang von jeweils 700 000...

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Exploring structural and strategic correlates of difficulties in the internationalisation process of Italian wine SMEs

Köhr, Christopher Karl; Camanzi, Luca; Malorgio, Giulio - In: Wine Economics and Policy 7 (2018) 1, pp. 13-23

Internationalisation has been a key strategy for businesses around the world over the last decades. Nowadays, the European wine sector finds itself in an increasingly competitive international environment, which is characterised by mature and declining per capita wine consumption in traditional...

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The Impact of Continuity Outlook and Development Activities on Growth Intentions

Joensuu-Salo, Sanna; Viljamaa, Anmari; Varamäki, Elina - 2019

Despite extensive research into succession planning, little is known about the impact of the continuity outlook of a firm on growth intentions. The objectives of the study are to examine 1) the effect of different continuity outlooks of the firm on growth intentions, 2) the effect of exploration...

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Competitiveness and Convergence: Trade, Merger Control, Industry, and Innovation. Reports

Rieth, Malte; Duso, Tomaso; Gornig, Martin; Werwatz, Axel; … - In: DIW Weekly Report 9 (2019) 16/18, pp. 140-147

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