Economic recessions have created challenges for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and contributed to disruptions requiring them to be resilient. At times of economic crises, SMEs face major threats to their financial performance and ultimately to their survival. The average number of...

This paper investigates how Chinese SMEs configure marketing, cost-control, and innovation strategies in order to attain better organizational effectiveness. Rather than the more standard approach of suggesting that SMEs focus exclusively on one strategy, we hypothesize that when a strategy...

SMEs are slightly overlookedin the open innovation literature, whichprovides a scarcity of studies on therisks residing in open innovationprojects involving SMEs and even fewerattempts to assess the mitigationpotential of these dangers. The limitedliterature written on SMEs and openinnovation...

In this paper, we present the results of a French empirical study, COMPETE, which covers a sample of 600 SMEs. We notably show that : (i) SMEs which supplement their internal knowledge and resources with external and various knowledge have stronger technological innovation capacities (external...

SMEs represent the vast majority of companies in Iran but they are, on average, characterized by a very small size. They contribute for a very modest part of non-oil exports. This situation is due to an institutional environment which gives the biggest incentives to rent-seeking behavior....