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Managing design projects in small and medium-sized firms [PDF]
Technology Analysis & Strategic Management, 1990 This paper presents initial results of a major study of the benefits and costs of investment in design in small and medium sized manufacturers. It shows that UK manufacturers which received a government subsidy to employ a professional design consultant for product, engineering, packaging and graphic design projects recovered their total investment in ...
Roy, Robin, Potter, Stephen
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Board Composition in Small and Medium‐Sized Family Firms* [PDF]
Journal of Small Business Management, 2007 This study focuses on the determinants of board composition in belgian small and medium-sized family firms. It extends the empirical literature on board composition in private small and medium-sized family enterprises by integrating several dimensions of the “family component” in the research model.
VOORDECKERS, Wim +2 more
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International Opportunity Recognition among Small and Medium‐Sized Family Firms [PDF]
Journal of Small Business Management, 2011 Current research in the field of entrepreneurship emphasizes the importance of opportunity recognition as a key element in the entrepreneurial process.
Kontinen Tanja, Ojala Arto
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The Internationalization of Small and Medium-Sized Firms
Small Business Economics, 2005 This paper contributes to the existing research by integrating the notions of organizational learning and entrepreneurial orientation into the body of international entrepreneurship. Our primary framework combines learning theory and the new venture theory of internationalization to study the extent to which small and medium-sized companies engage in ...
De Clercq, Dirk, SAPIENZA, HJ, CRIJNS, H
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Adaptability and survival in small- and medium-sized firms [PDF]
Industrial and Corporate Change, 2017 Abstract This article considers the causal connection between adaptability and survival in populations of small- and medium-sized enterprises. Some literatures have downplayed adaptability by focusing on statics and equilibria (parts of mainstream economics).
Geoffrey Hodgson +2 more
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Internationalisation, cultural distance and country characteristics: a Bayesian analysis of SME's financial performance [PDF]
, 2014 Relying on the accounting data of a panel of 403 Italian manufacturing SMEs collected over a period of 5 years, we find results suggesting that multinationality per se does not impact on the economic performance of international small and medium sized ...
Alfredo D’angelo +10 more
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Artificial intelligence and auditing in small‐ and medium‐sized firms: Expectations and applications
AI Magazine, 2022 AbstractAuditing is a field of expertise often mentioned as being ripe for automation using artificial intelligence methods at all levels of operations. Primarily, the application of artificial intelligence (AI) in the auditing profession is done by and for large organizations, leveraging large datasets. While AI approaches for big data are continually
Rikhardsson , Pall +3 more
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Firm and industry effects on small, medium-sized and large firms’ performance
BRQ Business Research Quarterly, 2019 [Abstract]: This paper examines whether or not the relative importance of the firm and industry effects in explaining performance variations is the same regardless of the firm size. In relation to size, we think that there has been particular neglect of studying medium-sized firms separately from SMEs in general.
Fernández Sánchez, Esteban +4 more
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Women in Small and Medium Sized Family Firms: Theory and Practice
Piccola Impresa / Small Business, 2021 Research on women presence in family firms has increased in the last decades. Nevertheless, most of the current understanding has been developed by studying large firms, leaving the unique and distinctive challenges of women involvement in small family firms still underexplore. This editorial offer an interpretative lens of the articles in this special
D'Allura Giorgia Maria +4 more
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High-performance work systems and workplace performance in small, medium-sized and large firms [PDF]
, 2014 This paper draws on the Organisational Growth and Development (OGD) lifecycle model to extend understanding of congruence or ‘best fit’ theory within strategic human resource management (SHRM) debates on the relationship between high performance work ...
Arbuckle +42 more
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