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Defining high-growth firms in South Africa

Mamburu, Mulalo - 2017

Traditionally, much of the research on economic growth drivers has been focused on small and medium enterprises. In recent years the academic focus on small businesses has shifted to a particular group of firms that are interesting from an economic growth and policy development perspective,...

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Outsourcing of R&D and Innovation Activities in SMEs: Evidence from Slovenia

Hojnik, Barbara Bradac; Rebernik, Miroslav - In: Economic Review: Journal of Economics and Business 10 (2012) 2, pp. 3-11

This paper examines the outsourcing of research and development and of innovation activities in small and medium-sized companies (SMEs). As the results of these activities enable companies to achieve and sustain competitive advantage, it is crucial to manage them properly. As SMEs generally lack...

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Determinants of Growth Aspirations: Empirical Evidence of the South-Eastern European Countries

Sirec, Karin; Mocnik, Dijana - In: Economic Review: Journal of Economics and Business 11 (2013) 1, pp. 3-15

The purpose of the paper is to explore the growth aspirations of south-eastern European (SEE) countries (Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Greece, Hungary, Macedonia, Montenegro, Romania and Slovenia) early-stage entrepreneurs, concentrating on the relationship between a firm's innovative and...

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An international comparison of the contribution to job creation by high-growth firms

Anyadike-Danes, Michael; Bjuggren, Carl Magnus; Dumont, … - 2018

This paper addresses three simple questions: how should the contribution of high-growth firms to job creation be measured? how much does this contribution vary across countries? to what extent does the cross-country variation depend on variation in the proportion of high-growth firms in the...

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Conceptual research model for studying students' entrepreneurial competencies

Zdolšek Draksler, Tanja; Širec, Karin - In: Naše gospodarstvo / Our Economy 64 (2018) 4, pp. 23-33

The literature review shows a lack of research on the impact of entrepreneurship education on entrepreneurial competencies in relation to entrepreneurial intentions. Further development of the field is needed, but, because of the shortage of suitable research models or because they only...

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Crescimento do emprego nas firmas da economia brasileira: Resultados por grupos de idade e tamanho

Coelho, Danilo Santa Cruz; Corseuil, Carlos Henrique; … - 2017

Using microdata of Brazilian firms from a longitudinal matched employee-employer data set (Rais) in the period from 1993 to 2013, this paper confirms that the middle part of the size distribution is "missing" in Brazil and apparently this feature is more intense than in other countries for which...

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Neugegründete Unternehmen und ihre Entwicklung: Eine empirische Analyse anhand verschiedener Erfolgsdimensionen

Brink, Siegrun; Ivens, Sören; Nielen, Sebastian; … - 2018

Die vorliegende Studie widmet sich der Entwicklung neugegründeter Unternehmen in den ersten vier Jahren. Ziel war es anhand von verschiedenen Erfolgsdimensionen (Überleben am Markt, Deckung des Lebensunterhaltes und Schaffung von Arbeitsplätzen) zu analysieren, wie sich die Unternehmen in der...

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The Impact of Management Practices on SME Performance

Forth, John; Bryson, Alex - 2018

We examine the impact of management practices on firm performance among SMEs in Britain over the period 2011 …-2014, using a unique dataset which links survey data on management practices with firm performance data from the UK's official … returns are most apparent for those SMEs that invest in human resource management practices, such as training and performance …

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Does high growth persist? A focus on growth formulas and the influence of firm exits

Erhardt, Eva - 2018

This study investigates the development of firms after high-growth. We argue that the formula used for measuring growth determines results. Implications from different formulas are tested with data from Amadeus on Bulgarian firms for the years 2001-2010. We provide first evidence for an absolute...

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Who creates jobs and who creates productivity? Small versus large versus young versus old

Heyman, Fredrik; Norbäck, Pehr-Johan; Persson, Lars - 2017

This paper examines employment and productivity dynamics in the Swedish business sector during the period 1996-2013. In order to analyze employment and productivity in a consistent way we apply a novel implementation of a method, which previously has been used extensively to analyze job...

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