Small and Medium Sized Manufacturing Companies in Brazil: Is Innovativeness a Key Competitive Capability to Develop? [PDF]
Acta Scientiarum: Technology, 2015 Small and medium sized manufacturing companies are important both to economic growth and to supply chains. Yet only limited research has focused on this type of organization – this includes in the area of manufacturing strategy.
Matthias Thürer +3 more
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Internationalisation, cultural distance and country characteristics: a Bayesian analysis of SMEs financial performance [PDF]
Journal of Business Economics and Management, 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 ...
Antonio Majocchi +2 more
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Family characteristics and governance of small and medium-sized family firms
Journal of Business Economics and Management, 2015 The purpose of this paper is to study the influence of family characteristics on the governance of small and medium-sized family firms. The study presents and tests a theoretical model resorting to data on 151 Portuguese SMEs.
J. Augusto Felício +1 more
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Development and expansion of born global firms in Serbia [PDF]
Marketing (Beograd. 1991), 2021 Early internationalization has been widely recognized as an important research topic since 1990s when the term "born global firms" was for the first time introduced.
Rakita Branko, Mitić Sanja
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Innovative Behaviour of Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises of an Industrial Region [PDF]
Экономика региона, 2020 Small and medium-sized enterprises are the drivers of economic development of any macro-system. In the context of technological paradigm shift, successful operation of small and medium-sized enterprises largely depends on ...
Maxim V. Vlasov
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On the ‘ENGO + focal firm’ governance strategies of pollution of small and medium suppliers
Chinese Journal of Population, Resources and Environment, 2021 Presently, the environmental pollution problem, especially that of the small and medium-sized enterprises, has become a bottleneck restricting the high-quality development of China’s economy.
Yumei Jiang +3 more
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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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Sustainability-oriented innovations and value creation in SMEs: An illustration in the Colombian context [PDF]
Problems and Perspectives in Management, 2023 Unlocking the potential of small and medium-sized enterprises hinges on grasping the underlying principles driving the development of sustainability-oriented innovations.
Juan Felipe Reyes-Rodríguez +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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