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Mol, M.J.; van Tulder, van Tulder, R.J.M.; Beije, … - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2002

propagated as a key means to improve the performance of firms. It is argued that becoming more lean and internationally focused …'s performance. The analysis reveals that for this sample of firms global sourcing is the exception rather than the rule. Although … performance. International outsourcing can not be used to adequately explain firm performance. Therefore, an alternative approach …

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What Makes a New Business Start-Up Successful?

Reid, Gavin C; Smith, Julia A - Centre for Research into Industry, Enterprise, Finance … - 1996

This paper seeks a good measure of new business performance, and then explains this measure by various dimensions of … business strategy. Three criteria are used to create a one dimensional ordinal ranking of high, medium and low performance for … cluster analysis provides a convincing separation of a sample of new business starts into high, medium and low performance …

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Multiple futures for society, research, and innovation in the European Union: Jumping ahead to 2038

Daimer, Stephanie; Havas, Attila; Cuhls, Kerstin; … - 2021

We contribute to the Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) literature in two ways: (i) we consider how societal aspects are taken into account in research and innovation activities in four fundamentally different futures, as opposed to analysing current practices; and (ii) put the emphasis...

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Multiple futures for society, research, and innovation in the European Union : jumping ahead to 2038

Daimer, Stephanie; Havas, Attila; Cuhls, Kerstin; … - 2021

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Multiple Futures for Society, Research, and Innovation in the European Union : Jumping to 2038

Daimer, Stephanie; Havas, Attila; Cuhls, Kerstin; … - 2021

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Virtual R & D teams in small and medium enterprises: A literature review

Ale Ebrahim, Nader; Ahmed, Shamsuddin; Taha, Zahari - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) are the driving engine behind economic growth. While SMEs play a critical role in generating employment and supporting trade, they face numerous challenges, the prominent among them are the need to respond to fasting time-to-market, low-cost and rapid...

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Italian industrial districts: a model of success or a weak productive system?

Schilirò, Daniele - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

The present contribution focuses on two issues. The first one concerns the characteristics of industrial districts and the increasing weight of these districts in the Italian system of production. The second issue is about the competitiveness of the Italian industrial districts, if they...

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The Relationship Between Training and Employment Growth in Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises

Cosh, Andy; Hughes, Alan; Weeks, Melvyn - ESRC Centre for Business Research - 2000

This paper provides a rigorous analysis of the impact of training upon the employment growth characteristics of small and medium sized firms. Using appropriate statistical techniques to cope with sample selection biases and heterogenerous employment growth patterns it reveals that training is...

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Workplace location and travel effects from teleworking

Lim, H.N. - EconWPA - 2002

Travel time losses in the Netherlands are likely to get worse in the years ahead if capacity is not added to cope with the demand. This particularly creates problems for business travel, which is characterized by a high “value of time”. In the Netherlands, policy makers have a long-standing...

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Human Resource Management And Business Objectives And Strategies In Small And Medium Sized Business

Wilkinson, Frank - ESRC Centre for Business Research - 2000

performance. One manifestation of this is the growing use of human resource management (HRM) strategies to increase the …

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