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Small Firms and Job Creation during a Recession and Recovery

Davidsson, Per; Lindmark, Leif; Olofsson, Christer - 1998

of large firms. With regard to regional economic well-being it is concluded that relatively vivid SME activity has a …

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Conceptual and Empirical Challenges in the Study of Firm Growth

Davidsson, Per; Wiklund, Johan - 2000

When the first author reviewed the literature on small firm growth in the mid 1980’s for his disserta-tion work, he noted that surprisingly few studies had focused on that specific problem (Davidsson 1989a; 1989b). Today, this is no longer true. In recent years ever more comprehensive lists of...

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Continuous innovation in SMEs : how design innovation shapes business performance through doing more with less

Matthews, Judy H.; Bucolo, Sam - 2011

Firms face the challenge to survive and thrive in an increasingly competitive global market, developing strategies to continuously innovate, often having to do more with less. Increasing awareness of the benefits of stimulating continuous innovation in small and medium enterprises has led to the...

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Rainwater harvesting in the UK: a strategic framework to enable transition from novel to mainstream

Ward, Sarah - 2010

The approach to water management worldwide is currently in transition, with a shift evident from purely centralised infrastructure to greater consideration of decentralised technologies, such as rainwater harvesting (RWH). Initiated by recognition of drivers including increasing water demand and...

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ICT industry and resources based analysis of maintenance SME in the Central Europe

Tesar, S.; Havlicek, Z.; Ocenasek, V. - 2010

presents a resource based analysis of family run SME, operating in IT parts and consumables market. In order to understand this … strategy of the SME. The value chain analysis helps to name the main organization’s capabilities and evaluates them in terms of … resources. The outcome of this audit shows that most of SME resources are of an intangible nature. Contrary to the higher …

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Taiwan's textile and clothing SME response to globalization

Chen, J.; Parker, D. - 2007

A mixed-method research approach underpinned exploration of antecedents of strategies adopted by Taiwanese small mediumsized enterprises in the clothing and textiles industry to counter the negative economic effect of globalisation and the increasing competitive threat of lower-cost Chinese...

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Définition et dénombrement statistique de la population des PME dans l'Union Européenne

Mertins, Verena; Sölter, Anja - 2008

This study by order of the Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ) provides an overview of the SME definition … and the system of SME statistics in the European Union. The European SME definition is particularly examined with respect … the institutional design of the European SME statistics and the practical problems of collecting data at the national …

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Bank Lines of Credit in Liquidity Management - The Impact of Recall Risk for German SMEs

Schertler, Andrea; Pfingsten, Andreas; Hubensack, Carsten - 2010

We use a unique sample of self-employed and corporate clients provided by a universal bank in Germany to investigate how recall risk of recallable bank lines of credit impact cash holdings and line usage. While the bank does not require an upfront fee for providing a line of credit, which may...

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Firm heterogeneity, credit constraints, and endogenous growth

Klarl, Torben; Maußner, Alfred - 2010

This paper is concerned with the role of firm heterogeneity under credit constraints for economic growth. We focus on firm size, innovativeness and credit constraints in a semi-endogenous growth model reflecting recent empirical findings on firm heterogeneity. It allows for an explicit solution...

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Entrepreneurship, development, and the spatial context: Retrospect and prospect

Nijkamp, Peter - 2009

Entrepreneurship has been a topical issue in the business administration literature, but in the past decade a wave of interest can be observed on the role of entrepreneurship in the economic growth literature. This paper aims to highlight the various contributions to the entrepreneurship...

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