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 …

The paper addresses the relevancy of networking activities and R&D as main drivers of productivity performance and … performance. The complementarity with networking is a consequential step. Networking by itself cannot thus play a role in … networking are to be sustained and favoured. our evidence suggests that R&D may be a single main driver of performance. Since R …

internationalization of business) services impacts on the internationalization and performance of small and medium-sized firms in Finland …. We measure internationalization and firm performance using a number of complementary indicators. The results indicate … performance. However, different methods of evaluation and data sets produce somewhat inconsistent results. The study also looks at …

effect of talent, enhance entrepreneurial performance? We distinguish between three different performance measures: survival … founders, we conclude that specific investments indeed affect the three performance measures substantially and significantly …