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Agro-food Business Strategies for Origin Labelled Products

Albisu, Luis Miguel; Corcoran, Kate - In: Agrarwirtschaft: Zeitschrift für Betriebswirtschaft, … 50 (2001) 6, pp. 362-367

Traditional and typical food products are, at present, fully recognised by European Union institutions and regulations. The name Origin Labelled Products (OLPs) brings together all those food products, which have legal recognition under the EU legislation, defined as produced in a particular...

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Relationship lending: empirical evidence for Germany

Schmieder, Christian; Memmel, Christoph; Stein, Ingrid - 2007

Relationship lending is a common practice in credit financing all over the world, particularly in Germany. On the basis of a comprehensive data set comprising information on firm-bank relationships for more than 16,000 observations, this study analyses the determinants of relationship lending in...

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Empirische Analyse des Offenlegungszeitpunkts von Jahresabschlüssen nach dem EHUG

Henselmann, Klaus; Kaya, Devrimi - 2008

disclosing financial statements for small and medium enterprises (SME) in Germany in 2007 and 2008. Comparisons of different …

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Research and development: financial constraints and the role of public funding for small and medium-sized enterprises

Czarnitzki, Dirk - 2002

German small and medium?sized firms (SME). Special attention is paid to the role of public R&D subsidies. For this purpose … SME in Western and East-ern Germany are compared because these regions are very different in their supply of public R …&D funding. It turns out that Western German SME are financially constrained in their R&D activities by both internal and …

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Access to finance and venture capital for industrial SMEs

Heimer, Thomas; Hölscher, Luise; Werner, Matthias Ralf - 2008

SMEs play a crucial role for European economies. The numbers show the high importance of SMEs for national economies. Accordingly, it is no surprise that the regulatory framework SMEs are imbedded in is the subject of an important political discussion. In the discussion it is frequently...

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Equity gap? - Which equity gap? On the financing structure of Germany's Mittelstand

Bannier, Christina E.; Grote, Michael H. - 2008

. We do not detect any structural problems in average SME's capital structure. Rather, German Mittelstand firms appear to …

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The price impact of lending relationships

Stein, Ingrid - 2011

This study analyzes the impact of bank relationships on a firm's cost of debt. We focus on relationships with the main bank. We find that a firm's cost of debt decreases with relationship strength, proxied by the share of bank debt provided by the main lender, but rises with relationship length....

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Regional dispersion of cooperation activities as success factor of innovation oriented SME

Stoetzer, Matthias-Wolfgang; Pfeil, Silko; Kaps, Katharina - 2011

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 …

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Management of Risks in Export Networks: The Role of Collaboration

Hietajärvi, Anna-Maija; Karvonen, Iris - In: International Journal of Applied Logistics (IJAL) 6 (2016) 1, pp. 47-63

The globalized economy is increasingly affecting small and medium-sized companies (SMEs). As markets and growth are moving outside Europe, SMEs need to find new global customers and build their market entries through export networks to remote locations which often have different cultures,...

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The Effects of Consumer Engagement Behavior on the Growth of Social Media Brand Community: Evidence from an SME

He, Xiaoyun; Negahban, Arash - In: International Journal of E-Business Research (IJEBR) 13 (2017) 1, pp. 25-43

In recent years, there has been increasing attention to how consumers' roles and behaviors can shape and affect social media based brand communities. In this study the authors examine the dynamic relationships between specific consumer engagement behaviors and the growth rate of social media...

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