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Boosting SMEs' internationalisation in Poland

Goujard, Antoine; Guérin, Pierre - 2020

unequal. Many small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), some regions and social groups have lagged behind. Poland …-intensive products that incorporate little domestic value added. The coronavirus (COVID-19) crisis has put additional pressures on SMEs …. A broad range of well-coordinated policies is required to boost SMEs’ internationalisation and their productivity, while …

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Helping Small Businesses become more Data-Driven : A Field Experiment on eBay

Bar-Gill, Sagit; Brynjolfsson, Erik; Hak, Nir - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

becoming increasingly important. The adoption of analytics and DDD has been slower in small-to-medium enterprises (SMEs … increases, without increases in average prices. Our results suggest that analytics and DDD help SMEs establish a competitive … supporting the adoption of analytics tools by SMEs. Furthermore, policies supporting small businesses' transition to the data era …

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The catch-22 of external validity in the context of constraints to firm growth

Fischer, Greg; Karlan, Dean - 2015

We document the presence of multiple and varied constraints to small and medium firm growth. This presents both a practical problem for business training programs and a challenge to academic economists trying to identify mechanisms though which these programs may affect outcomes. External...

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A Model for Assessing the Contribution of Innovative Smes to Economic Growth : The Intangible Approach

Gonzalez-Loureiro, Miguel - 2013

Three components govern the impact of intangible management on the growth of SMEs: human, structural and relational … not satisfy the needs of SMEs fully …

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Platform Ecosystems : How Developers Invert the Firm

Parker, Geoffrey - 2018

For a period starting in 2015, Apple, Google, and Microsoft became the most valuable companies in the world. Each was marked by an external developer ecosystem. Anecdotally, at least, developers matter. Using a formal model of code spillovers, we show how a rising number of developers can invert...

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Firms, Crowds, and Innovation

Felin, Teppo - 2017

The purpose of this article is to suggest a (preliminary) taxonomy and research agenda for the topic of “firms, crowds, and innovation” and to provide an introduction to the associated special issue. We specifically discuss how various crowd-related phenomena and practices — for example,...

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Enabling and Sustaining Collaborative Innovation

Blecker, Thorsten; Abdelkafi, Nizar; Raasch, Christina - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

This paper extends the principles of open source software development to a non-industry-specific level by introducing the Open Source Innovation (OSI) model. OSI exhibits main differences to other related models and concepts such as the private-collective model, commons-based peer production,...

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Job Growth in Early Transition : Comparing Two Paths

Jurajda, Stepan; Terrell, Katherine - 2003

Small start-up firms are the engine of job creation in early transition. We ask about differences in their growth across two different transition economies: Estonia, which experienced rapid destruction of pre-existing firms, and the Czech Republic, which reduced the old sector gradually. We find...

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Managerial elements in the educational system – characteristics and functions of the educational management. Types of managers

Drd. Lucica (Mitican) Cristea - In: Ovidius University Annals, Economic Sciences Series X (2010) 1, pp. 911-916

The present paper focuses on the verification of the hypothesis according to which the organizational climate, the quality of all resources involved in the educational process and especially the quality of the management have a very important role in obtaining performance. After the conceptual...

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Social Capital and the Use of ICTs by Small-Scale Entrepreneurs in Soweto, South Africa

Carlson, Andrew - 2013

Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) play a key role in starting and operating small-scale businesses. In Soweto, South Africa, mobile phones have sparked the creation of new business models and strategies among entrepreneurs. Their use is shown to help maintain relationships and...

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