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Turbulence, Flexibility and Performance of the Long-lived Small Firm
Power, Bernadette; Reid, Gavin C - Tinbergen Instituut - 2003
in Scotland. New measures of flexibility and turbulence are used to explain the performance of mature small firms. These … depend on our unique body of evidence from interviews with owner managers. Performance is measured using a Likert scale over … performance. This is done in two forms. The first involves generalised least squares estimation (with heteroskedastic adjustment …
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La Formazione-sviluppo per la creazione di moderne comunità lavorative [Developmnt-training to create working communities]
Rizziato, Erica - Istituto di Ricerca sulla Crescita Economica … - 2010
This paper proposes a new methodology for training in the field of organization development, named development-training. The approach on the base of the methodology come from a research project of Ceris-CNR and the Association Motiva; it is inspired by complexity, constructivism, personalism,...
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Unraveling the Shift to the Entrepreneurial Economy
Audretsch, D.B.; Thurik, A.R. - Tinbergen Instituut - 2010
significantly increased, and (2) a positive relationship exists between entrepreneurial activity and economic performance. However …
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THE DIRECTIONS OF DIVERSIFICATION IN ITALIAN MANUFACTURING
Vannoni, Davide - Istituto di Ricerca sulla Crescita Economica … - 1996
This paper focuses on the diversification strategies of the largest manufacturing groups operating in Italy between 1987 and 1993. The analysis of diversification at the firm level and at the industry level is followed with an empirical investigation on the links between the different areas of...
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MULTINATIONALITY, DIVERSIFICATION AND FIRM SIZE AN EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS OF EUROPE'S LEADING FIRMS
Davies, Stephen; Rondi, Laura; Sembenelli, Alessandro - Istituto di Ricerca sulla Crescita Economica … - 1997
Conventional explanations of diversification and multinationality both point to size/growth related motives and firm-specific intangible assets as the driving forces. However, previous empirical studies have rarely exploited this commonality by investigating multinationality and diversification...
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INNOVATION IN NEW TECHNOLOGY-BASED FIRMS IN FRIULI-VENEZIA GIULIA
Guerra, Paola - Istituto di Ricerca sulla Crescita Economica … - 2003
This paper discusses the results of a research project on new technology-based firms. The aim of the project is to analyze the innovation activity of new technology-based firms. The focus is on the process of knowledge creation that fuels innovation. The analysis is based on an empirical...
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INNOVATIVE FIRMS IN FRIULI VENEZIA GIULIA: A CONJOINT ANALYSIS EXPERIMENT
Rotaris, Lucia - Istituto di Ricerca sulla Crescita Economica … - 2003
The European market is rapidly enlarging towards the Eastern part of the continent. This phenomenon is stimulating the enterprises localized in the North-Eastern part of Italy to innovate their productivity processes and their products in order to preserve their competitiveness in the national...
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l finanziamento delle imprese Spin-off. Un confronto fra Italia e Regno Unito
Salvador, Elisa - Istituto di Ricerca sulla Crescita Economica … - 2006
This paper aims at examining the university spin-off firms context at present in place in Italy, with particular attention to the relationship with the academic institutions and the problems of financing. In the latest years, more and more attention is devoted to investigate the emergence of the...
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Developing innovation in small-medium suppliers: evidence from the Italian car industry
Calabrese, Giuseppe - Istituto di Ricerca sulla Crescita Economica … - 1999
Small-medium firms represent more than 90% of Italian firms, 50% of Italian production and 2/3 of employment and they need support in innovation process especially in known technology. The small-medium firm, in fact, operates chiefly in medium to low technology sectors, but cannot for this...
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Optimal Diversity in Investments with Recombinant Innovation
Bergh, Jeroen C.J.M. van den; Zeppini-Rossi, Paolo - Tinbergen Instituut - 2008
This discussion paper resulted in a publication in <I>Structural Change and Economic Dynamics</I>, 2013, 24, 141-156.<P> We address the notion of dynamic, endogenous diversity and its role in theories of investment and technological innovation. We develop a formal model of an innovation arising from the...</p></i>
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