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Why Do Business Service Firms Cluster? Small Consultancies, Clustering and Decentralisation in London and Southern England
Keeble, David; Nachum, Lilach - ESRC Centre for Business Research - 2001
Notwithstanding their remarkable recent growth, surprisingly little research has hitherto been conducted on the evolving geography of professional and business services in Britain. This paper analyses the results of a detailed survey of 300 small and medium-sized management and engineering...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005688014
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Turning Digital: Diversification in UK Design Consultancy Services
Wennberg, K.; Tether, B.; Li, C.; Mina, A. - ESRC Centre for Business Research - 2010
Why do small firms in emerging industries choose to diversify? Theories of strategic management suggest that diversification is driven by search for exogenous market opportunities, deployment of slack resources, or the exploitation of current knowledge. Institutional organization theory suggests...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010614646
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The Impact of the Patent System on SMEs
Hughes, A.; Mina, A. - ESRC Centre for Business Research - 2010
The authors consider the theory and evidence on the propensity of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to patent …. SMEs are also less likely than larger firms to use others' patents as a source of information for their own innovation … cost and capacity pressures. Among the emerging trends, of particular interest for high tech SMEs is the role of patents as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010614654
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How Banks Construct and Manage Risk: A Sociological Study of Small Firm Lending in Britain and Germany
Lane, C; Quack, S - ESRC Centre for Business Research - 2001
This paper analyses the role of banks in financing SMEs in Britain and Germany. It applies a sociological …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005549411