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How do strategic networks help SMEs upgrade in global value chains? : a cross-national analysis

Kang, Sangmin; Kim, Changju - In: Cogent business & management 10 (2023) 1, pp. 1-21

This study investigates whether strategic networks in global value chains affect the upgrade of suppliers and describes alternative ways of overcoming the barriers to such upgrades. Using a cross-national analysis, we examine the complex upgrade process for suppliers from a long-term perspective...

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Evolution of cooperation between SMEs in the footwear industry. An answer to global value chains and cost minimization

González, Tania; González, Sara - 2022

The aim of this article is to analyse the cooperation tie between small and medium enterprises in the footwear industry like a response to the global value chain and cost minimization. Statistics data from governments and research projects are analysed. 81 small and medium enterprises...

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The effect of industrial cluster policy on firm performance in Ethiopia : evidence from the leather footware cluster

Getahun, Tigabu Degu - 2016

This paper empirically analyzes the productivity, profitability, innovation and network effects of a public policy promoting micro and small scale industrial clusters in Ethiopia. To this end, firm-level survey data was collected from randomly selected clustered leather shoe manufacturers that...

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Interfirm Relationships and Business Performance

Cai, Jing; Szeidl, Adam - 2021

We organized business associations for the owner-managers of young Chinese firms to study the effect of business networks on firm performance. We randomized 2,820 firms into small groups whose managers held monthly meetings for one year, and into a “no-meetings” control group. We find the...

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Innovation in small and medium-sized companies : knowledge integration mechanisms and the role of top managers' networks

Fliaster, Alexander; Golly, Tanja - In: Management revue : socio-economic studies 25 (2014) 2, pp. 125-147

Past research has revealed that knowledge integration is an important prerequisite for the success of new product development. For this reason, companies deploy a number of formal mechanisms to foster integration across multiple functions and hierarchical levels. In many SMEs, however, such...

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SMEs and knowledge-capital formation in innovation networks : a review of literature

Laperche, Blandine; Liu, Zeting - In: Journal of innovation and entrepreneurship : JIE 2 (2013), pp. 1-16

To innovate, firms constitute a ‘knowledge-capital’, defined as a set of information and knowledge produced, acquired and used in the value creation process. In this paper, we focus on small and medium-sized companies (SMEs) and study their ability to develop their own knowledge-capital as...

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Innovationskooperationen und Wissenstransfer von Unternehmen im Raum Jena

Kaps, Katharina; Pfeil, Silko; Sauer, Thomas; Stoetzer, … - 2011 - [Online-Ausg.]

Wissenstransferaktivitäten von schwerpunktmäßig kleinen und mittleren Unternehmen (KMU) in der Region Jena. Die Studie konzentriert sich auf drei …. -- Innovationskooperation ; Wissenstransfer ; Kooperationspartner ; Transferkanal ; Innovation ; KMU …-sized enterprises (SME) in and closely around Jena (Thuringia). The study focuses on three aspects: How do the different channels used …

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Innovation Networks of High Tech SMEs : Creation of Knowledge but No Creation of Value

Winters, Rob - 2013

This paper analyses the effects of innovation networks on product and process innovation and sales growth of high technology SMEs. Innovation networks are positively related to both product and process innovation, i.e. knowledge creation. One exception is the negative effect of innovation...

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Determining Factors in Innovation of Small Firm Networks : A Case of Cross Industry Groups in Japan

Fukugawa, Nobuya - 2006

We examine the relationship between network characteristics and innovation under different phases of innovation. Based on micro data of cross industry groups, small firm networks for knowledge sharing and Ramp;D cooperation, we show that close-knit networks, represented as dense communication...

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The Value of Sustainable Knowledge Transfer Methods for SMEs, Utilizing Socio-Technical Networks and Complex Systems

Nousala, Susu; Jamsai-Whyte, Suthida - 2011

This paper will examine the development of sustainable SME methods for tracking tacit (informal) knowledge transfer as … studies to underpin the key case study discussed. This approach involved examining the behavioural phenomena of an SME … knowledge network. The knowledge network elements were highlighted to identify their value within an SME structure. To …

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