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It was the title chosen in January 2004 for the 12 pages of the "Agreste" restitution of the primary results obtained through this second investigation, to the partners and interviewed firms, which was intended to question the evolutions of the regional agro-food sphere over 5 years (1998-2003)....
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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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Italy has yet to recover from the economic consequences of the financial and sovereign debt crisis that began more than a decade ago. In addition to losing 1.4 million jobs across the manufacturing and construction sectors, new industries driving growth across the EU, such as knowledge-intensive...
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Italien hat sich gut zehn Jahre nach der Finanz- und Staatsschuldenkrise nicht von deren wirtschaftlichen Folgen erholt. Verantwortlich sind zum einen die traditionellen Wachstumstreiber Italiens, nämlich das verarbeitende Gewerbe und der Bausektor, die beide einen Rückgang von jeweils 700 000...
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Innovation has long been considered an important factor for creating and maintaining the competitiveness of nations and firms. Common knowledge stands that innovation is the cause of the increase of exports. However, contradicting empirical evidences are reported in the literature on the...
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Private businesses' nominal value added in Greece has fallen by 38 percent over the last ten years. Micro firms were hit particularly hard. Despite efforts to stabilize the macroeconomic environment, there are only weak signs of recovery. Future prospects are not much better, as-with the...
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