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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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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011333898
of SMEs to accept new innovative methods that will lead to higher performance of humans and machines for increased … regression technique. The hypothesis tested found that technological change has effect on organizational performance of small and … recorded in the SMEs performance is accounted for by technological change. This result is statistically significant because the …
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The Circular Economy concept has emerged to face current unsustainable economic trends. Circularity requires to go beyond mainstream linear business models in favour of new design strategies and production processes able to support an efficient use and a continuous flow of resources. Clarifying...
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Research in entrepreneurship has debated the differences between entrepreneurial and small business ventures for quite some time, arguing that entrepreneurial ventures are small growth-oriented, strategically-innovative firms, while small business ventures are neither growth oriented nor...
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findings on the performance implications of organizational size. In doing so, the review provides extensions to our …
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The appearance of relationship quality paradigm in the field of international business has resulted in growing need to manage, develop and evaluate relationships amongst the exporters and importers besides influencing the profitability of the firm in the long-run. In the same light, this study...
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utilization of the financial support services and the firm's performance. This study used Structural Equation Modeling to evaluate … the impact of financial support services on SME performance. The sample for this study involved SMEs in Malaysia. The … result indicates that financial support services significantly associated with the firms' performance and entrepreneurial …
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performance of SMEs. The main hypothesis of the study is that a special type of organizational culture (termed innovative culture … sources and higher levels of innovative, operational and financial performance. The study was based on a representative CATI … influence on an index of operational performance and ROI. Such statistical patterns suggest that fostering innovative culture is …
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There has been a revival of interest in small industries and their linkages with a nation's institutional arrangements among both academicians and policy makers. Extending the definition of institutions to include formal and informal rules, this paper attempts to identify these linkages using...
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