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Recruiting for Small Business Growth: Micro-level Evidence

Gidehag, Anton; Lodefalk, Magnus - 2016

-sized (SME) enterprises. Managers and professionals are likely to possess important tacit knowledge. They are also in a position … positive and statistically significant impact on the productivity of the hiring SME. Interestingly, our results suggest that …

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The Effect of Hiring Top Workers on Productivity: What is the Role of Absorptive Capacity?

Lodefalk, Magnus; Tang, Aili - 2017

We examine heterogeneous productivity effects of hiring top workers on small and medium-sized enterprises, using longitudinal employer-employee data. We find the productivity effect to be stronger for firms with higher absorptive capacity in terms of having a well-educated workforce, being in a...

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Enterprise resource planning, entrepreneurial orientation, and the performance of SMEs in a South Asian economy: The mediating role of organizational excellence

Raoof, Rabeeya; Javeria, Shabbir; Jabeen, Sadia - In: Cogent Business & Management 8 (2021) 1, pp. 1-18

The key objective of the current study is to examine the effect of enterprise resource planning and entrepreneurial orientation on organizational performance. In addition to that, the study also examines the mediating role of organizational excellence in the relationship between enterprise...

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Implementing lean: Outcomes from SME case studies

Pearce, Antony; Pons, Dirk; Neitzert, Thomas - In: Operations Research Perspectives 5 (2018), pp. 94-104

SME implementations due to their resource constraints. Researchers still need to define the success factors more …

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Long-run profits in times of crisis: A comparison between European SMEs and large companies

Alcalde-Fradejas, Nuria; Ramírez-Alesón, Marisa - In: Estudios de Economía 42 (2015) 1, pp. 79-97

This is pioneering research in that it makes a comparison of the process of convergence of long-run profits in the manufacturing sector of six European countries (2000-12), differentiating between SMEs and large firms, and by identifying the impact of the crisis on this process. The results...

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The impact of resource efficiency measures on performance in small and medium-sized enterprises

Horbach, Jens - 2016

the Eurobarometer data for small and medium-sized firms (SME's). The analysis for SME's seems to be interesting because …

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The predominance of social proximity for innovation collaboration of SME

von Proff, Sidonia - 2016

holds especially for SME and for firms with low or medium innovativeness. Furthermore, the paper presents two explorative …

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Spanish Public Policies towards the Promotion of Cloud Computing and Digital Services for SMEs

Serrano Calle, Silvia; Pérez Martínez, Jorge; Frías … - 2016

The paper focuses on the first public programs in Spain to support the introduction of cloud computing services for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and micro-SMEs, and facilitating the digital transformation of SMEs, stimulating e-commerce and encouraging competitiveness. The paper...

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SME funding without banks? On the interplay of banks and markets

Franke, Günter; Krahnen, Jan Pieter - 2017

The Capital Markets Union-project of the European Commission aims for an increase of market-based debt financing of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), complementing bank lending. In this essay we argue that rather than focussing on pure non-bank lending, a reasonable mix of bank- and...

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The use of SME tax incentives in the European Union

Bergner, Sören Martin; Bräutigam, Rainer; Evers, … - 2017

companies. We find that SME tax incentives are a commonly used measure among European policy makers. The vast majority of … examine the arguments potentially justifying the usage of SME tax incentives. As a main result, small firms per se do not … commonly associated with SMEs - and possibly warranting the use of SME tax incentives - can therefore not be confirmed. Instead …

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