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How efficient is the implementation of structural funds committed to enhancing ICT adoption in SMEs?
Henriques, Carla Oliveira; Viseu, Clara - In: Journal of open innovation : technology, market, and … 8 (2022) 3, pp. 1-33
communication technologies (ICTs) in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). To achieve this goal, we employed a novel three … ICT specialists seem to be related to an underuse of ERDF funds dedicated to boosting ICT in SMEs. These findings might be … related to the administrative burden and the lack of ability of SMEs to deal with the various procedures for applying for and …
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Knowledge Management in the SME and its Relationship to Strategy, Family Orientation and Organization Learning
Zhou, Haibo - 2010
In this study, we examine the prevalence of different KM practices and the organizational determinants of KM among SMEs … by conducting a quantitative study of empirical data from nearly 500 Dutch SMEs. Our empirical results show that … knowledge is managed in a people-based approach in SMEs. SMEs are most likely to acquire knowledge by staying in touch with …
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Firms, Crowds, and Innovation
Felin, Teppo - 2017
The purpose of this article is to suggest a (preliminary) taxonomy and research agenda for the topic of “firms, crowds, and innovation” and to provide an introduction to the associated special issue. We specifically discuss how various crowd-related phenomena and practices — for example,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012945789
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The dynamics of resource allocation in research organizations
Filson, Darren - 2000
As a first step towards understanding the evolution of small groups in firms, this paper develops and tests a simple decision-theoretical model of research-unit evolution in which, as managers resolve their uncertainty over time, they shut down under-performing units and remove under-performing...
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Promoting SMEs As Suppliers in Public Procurement : Would It Lead to Innovation?
Rolfstam, Max - 2018
innovative than larger firms. Neither appear SMEs to be a central category of firms in the literature advocating public …, this paper calls for a more critical view regarding policy development targeting specifically SMEs …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012924079
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A Real Options Approach to Project Selection and its Application to NASA’s Small Business Innovation Research Program
Belz, Andrea; Eckhause, Jeremy; Terrile, Richard; … - 2021
We consider an important class of research and development (R&D) investments in public and private entities that require selection from a large number of proposals such that: (1) the potential monetary value of the proposals is not a first-order factor in the selection; and (2) the investments...
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Innovation and the knowledge-base for entrepreneurship : investigating SME innovation across European regions using fsQCA
Beynon, Malcolm; Jones, Paul; Pickernell, David - In: Entrepreneurship and regional development : an … 33 (2021) 3/4, pp. 227-248
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Platform Performance Investment in the Presence of Network Externalities
Anderson, Edward G.; Parker, Geoffrey; Tan, Burcu - 2017
Managers of emerging platforms must decide what level of platform performance to invest in at each product development cycle in markets that exhibit two-sided network externalities. High performance is a selling point for consumers, but in many cases it requires developers to make large...
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Toward a Systematic Framework for Research on Dominant Designs, Technological Innovations, and Industrial Change
Murmann, Johann Peter; Frenken, Koen - 2015
The concept of a dominant design has taken on a quasi-paradigmatic status in analyses of the link between technological and industrial dynamics. A review of the empirical literature reveals a variety of interpretations about some aspects of the phenomenon such as its underlying causal mechanisms...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014027881
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Transferring Tacit Knowledge in Extended Enterprises
Nousala, Susu; Hall, William P.; John, Sabu - 2015
Organizations need to build and use knowledge to remain viable in the face of competition and change. Due to the limits of organization and the bounded rationality of individuals working within the organizations it is impossible to make all of the required knowledge accessible in explicit and...
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