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Small companies are the backbone of the economy in many countries. In Europe, for example, small companies represent more than 90% of all companies. Despite the fact that these companies represent such an important portion of the economy, few studies have been examining voluntary disclosure...
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Education and Research (BMBF), examines the innovation activities of small and medium-sized enterprises (SME) in and closely … of their company. However, the data show a clear tendency to mixed strategies. Only a few regional SME have a clear … organizational innovation. While customers clearly are the most important drivers of innovation, regional SME are highly hampered in …
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Innovation activities in high tech industries provide considerable challenges for technology and innovation management. In particular, firms frequently face significant technological challenges since these industries has a long history of radical innovations which are taking place through...
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This paper analyses the co-operation activities of small Austrian firms with the CEEC and compares them to those of larger firms. Small firms are less likely to engage in cross-border co-operation than larger firms, more likely to co-operate in ownership based forms of co-operation but less...
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Die vorliegende Studie untersucht den Digitalisierungsgrad von Unternehmen im Verarbeitenden Gewerbe anhand einer repräsentativen Befragung von 1.400 Unternehmen in Nordrhein-Westfalen, Bayern und Baden-Württemberg. Die Unternehmen empfinden sich insgesamt bereits als gut vernetzt. Während...
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Organizations are restructuring, re-engineering and rethinking how they do business in an effort to keep pace with changes in technology and other economic conditions in the world. The goal of technological change under study is the ability of SMEs to accept new innovative methods that will lead...
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success of regional innovation networks", which examines the innovation activities of small and medium-sized enterprises (SME … variables on the innovative performance of SME. Therefore our findings suggest that innovative firms rely on collaboration … ; Product innovation ; Quality leadership ; Regional dispersion ; SME ; Spatial distance …
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In this article we propose an innovative way of delineating geographical markets based on easily accessible data. We apply this concept for the day care industry and investigate providers' location choices relative to local market characteristics to evaluate the widespread presumption that local...
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, and Hungary). Data were collected from 1,398 SME owners or top managers using the computer-assisted web interviewing (CAWI …
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