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SME performance : separating myth from reality

Watson, John - 2010

The performance of Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) has been a subject of continual interest to both …pt. 1. Background -- pt. 2. SME performance -- pt. 3. Comparing the performance of female- and male-controlled SMEs … -- pt. 4. Growth financing for SMEs -- pt. 5. Networking and SME performance -- pt. 6. Conclusions …

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Handbook of research on European business and entrepreneurship : towards a theory of internationalization

Dana, Leo Paul (contributor) - 2008

This unique Handbook illustrates how entrepreneurs across Europe tackle internationalization. This timely and important book identifies patterns and builds a theory of international entrepreneurship in Europe

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Innovation strategies and performance in small firms

Baldwin, John Russel - 2003

John Baldwin and Guy Gellatly find that the strategic decisions young firms make play a critical role in determining their odds for survival and growth. New small firms survive by developing a core set of business skills – skills related inter alia to management, human resources, marketing and...

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Narratives of enterprise : crafting entrepreneurial self-identity in a small firm

Down, Simon - 2006

Simon Down's timely ethnographic study takes a philosophically reflective and empirically detailed look at the way in which enterprising people use narrative resources to construct their identity as entrepreneurs. The book draws on a wide range of intellectual sources, from naturalistic...

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Internationalization, entrepreneurship and the smaller firm : evidence from around the world

Jones, Marian (contributor) - 2009

influencing the internationalization of SMEs …. Exploring opportunity creation in internationalizing SMEs : evidence from Scottish firms / Lucrezia Casulli -- 4. Growth and … Karafyllia -- 6. Learning processes in the development of absorptive capacity of internationalizing SMEs / Margaret Fletcher -- 7 …

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Entrepreneurial small businesses : a resource-based perspective

Shepherd, Dean A. - 2005

The authors of this comprehensive study address why it is that some small firms perform well and others don't, and whether high-performing firms share characteristics that distinguish them from low-performing firms. By exploring bundles of resources and their interaction with other factors, the...

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Sustaining growth and performance in East Asia : the role of small and medium sized enterprises

Lee, Boon-Chye (contributor); Harvie, Charles (contributor) - 2004

This third book in the series focuses on how small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) contribute to achieving and …

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Handbook of research on entrepreneurship policy

Thurik, A. Roy (contributor); … - 2007

to entrepreneurship policy / Anders N. Hoffmann -- Government program to encourage innovation by start-ups and SMEs : the …

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Entrepreneurship and public policy

Smallbone, David (contributor) - 2010

support for entrepreneurship /David B. Audretsch --Innovating SMEs and regions : the need for policy intelligence and … --'Business advisers' impact on SMEs : an agency theory approach /Kevin Mole --SME policy support in Britain since the 1990s …

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Small and medium sized enterprises in East Asia : sectoral and regional dimensions

Harvie, Charles (ed.); Lee, Boon-Chye (ed.) - 2008

global competitiveness of local SMEs in various economic sectors across the East Asian region. The book goes on to illustrate … the increasing recognition that important local, regional and sectoral dimensions of SMEs, activities require their own … activities of these local SMEs. The importance and inherent potential of SMEs as small but significant players in national …

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