This paper provides first empirical evidence of the joint effects that innovation strategies and human resource … management practices exert on firm growth. By exploiting unique information from a large sample of Italian manufacturing … both positively associated with a significant turnover, employment and labor productivity growth premium. However, their …

-sized enterprises (SMEs). The literature has yielded mixed results on how innovation impacts internationalization and performance of … Finnish SMEs, we examine how engaging in SI impacts their growth, international performance and international expansion. We … find that engaging in SI has a positive relationship with international performance, but not with the growth or degree of …