hierarchical levels. In many SMEs, however, such formal mechanisms are complemented or even replaced by informal social networks … among managers and employees. Despite the relevance of intraorganizational networks, past research on SMEs, however, was … focused mainly on the interorganizational level of analysis. To cover this gap, we map ego networks of senior managers in SMEs …

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 …

companies. The aim of the paper is to offer the management of SMEs a revolutionary way for increasing the company’s productivity …