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Leveraging Offshore it Outsourcing by Smes Through Online Marketplaces

Radkevitch, U. L. - 2013

Following their larger counterparts, an increasing number of small firms outsource their IT tasks to lower cost offshore destinations. For small firms, however, offshore outsourcing is a difficult undertaking as it involves high transaction costs. Online marketplaces for IT services, which have...

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Boosting SMEs' internationalisation in Poland

Goujard, Antoine; Guérin, Pierre - 2020

unequal. Many small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), some regions and social groups have lagged behind. Poland …-intensive products that incorporate little domestic value added. The coronavirus (COVID-19) crisis has put additional pressures on SMEs …. A broad range of well-coordinated policies is required to boost SMEs’ internationalisation and their productivity, while …

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Helping Small Businesses become more Data-Driven : A Field Experiment on eBay

Bar-Gill, Sagit; Brynjolfsson, Erik; Hak, Nir - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

becoming increasingly important. The adoption of analytics and DDD has been slower in small-to-medium enterprises (SMEs … increases, without increases in average prices. Our results suggest that analytics and DDD help SMEs establish a competitive … supporting the adoption of analytics tools by SMEs. Furthermore, policies supporting small businesses' transition to the data era …

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The catch-22 of external validity in the context of constraints to firm growth

Fischer, Greg; Karlan, Dean - 2015

We document the presence of multiple and varied constraints to small and medium firm growth. This presents both a practical problem for business training programs and a challenge to academic economists trying to identify mechanisms though which these programs may affect outcomes. External...

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A Model for Assessing the Contribution of Innovative Smes to Economic Growth : The Intangible Approach

Gonzalez-Loureiro, Miguel - 2013

Three components govern the impact of intangible management on the growth of SMEs: human, structural and relational … not satisfy the needs of SMEs fully …

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Job Growth in Early Transition : Comparing Two Paths

Jurajda, Stepan; Terrell, Katherine - 2003

Small start-up firms are the engine of job creation in early transition. We ask about differences in their growth across two different transition economies: Estonia, which experienced rapid destruction of pre-existing firms, and the Czech Republic, which reduced the old sector gradually. We find...

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Growth History, Knowledge Intensity and Capital Structure in Small Firms

Gellatly, Guy; Thornhill, Stewart; Riding, Allan - 2009

This paper explores the financial characteristics of successful Canadian small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). It …

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Social Capital and the Use of ICTs by Small-Scale Entrepreneurs in Soweto, South Africa

Carlson, Andrew - 2013

Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) play a key role in starting and operating small-scale businesses. In Soweto, South Africa, mobile phones have sparked the creation of new business models and strategies among entrepreneurs. Their use is shown to help maintain relationships and...

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Does Job Security Help Innovation in Small Firms? : Commitment-Based Human Resource Practice and Innovation in Software Firms in Seoul, Korea

Jung, Namji - 2014

The primary goal of this study is to elaborate and test of how commitment-based HR practices affect the innovative capacity of firms. While a remarkable wealth of knowledge has been accumulated on what accounts for small firm innovation including various internal and external factors, a void...

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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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