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What role did management practices play in SME growth post-recession?

Bryson, Alex; Forth, John - 2016

, little is known about the role played by management practices in SME growth since recession. We contribute to the literature … on SME growth by analysing longitudinal administrative data on firms' employment and turnover, taken from the UK …'s Business Structure Database (BSD), with data on management practices collected in face-to-face interviews from the HR Managers …

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The impact of management practices on SME performance

Forth, John; Bryson, Alex - 2018

We examine the impact of management practices on firm performance among SMEs in Britain over the period 2011 …-2014, using a unique dataset which links survey data on management practices with firm performance data from the UK's official … business register. We find that SMEs are less likely to use formal management practices than larger firms, but that such …

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The Impact of Management Practices on SME Performance

Forth, John - 2018

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Hybrid Strategy and Firm Performance : The Moderating Role of Individual and Technological Ambidexterity

Mahr, Ferdinand - 2010

It is discussed whether hybrid strategies are beneficial or detrimental to a firm’s performance, because hybrid strategies lead to organizational tensions that arise from the simultaneous pursuit of distinct strategic activities. However, existing studies on the relationship between hybrid...

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High-growth entrepreneurship

Brown, J. David; Earle, John S.; Kim, Mee Jung; Lee, … - 2018

Analyzing data on all U.S. employers in a cohort of entering firms, we document a highly skewed size distribution, such that the largest 5% account for over half of cohort employment at firm birth and more than two-thirds at firm age 7. Little of the size variation is accounted for by industry...

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The influence of human resources competency management on the business success of small and medium enterprises

Klepić, Iva - In: Naše gospodarstvo : NG 68 (2022) 4, pp. 12-27

competency management influences the business success of small and medium enterprises (SMEs). The empirical research was … survey, which gathered the opinions of top managers. In the paper, human resources competency management is viewed as a … of human resources competency management on the business success of SMEs viewed from all four perspectives. The paper …

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The effect of discretionary accruals on firm growth : empirical evidence for SMEs from emerging Europe

Anton, Sorin Gabriel; Carp, Mihai - In: Journal of business economics and management 21 (2020) 4, pp. 1128-1148

firm growth. The empirical results suggest that discretionary accruals are used as earnings management tools and this … results of the quantile regression employed in the whole period suggest that the earnings management practices have a negative …

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R&D intensity and firm performance of SME firms in Thailand : the moderating role of firm size

Muttanachai Suttipun; Krittiga Insee - In: Cogent business & management 11 (2024) 1, pp. 1-12

- and medium-enterprise firms (SME firms) was found that in the past many studies However, the results of the study of this … possible relationship between R&D intensity and firm performance, moderated by the size of SME in Thailand. A total of 151 Thai … SME firms from The Office of National Higher Education Science Research and Innovation Policy Council were used as samples …

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Antecedents and Consequences of New Venture Growth Strategy : An Empirical Study in China

Zou, Huan - 2016

Although current literature on new venture growth has focused on why new ventures grow, relatively less attention has been paid to how that growth is occurring. This article adopts the resource-based view to investigate the antecedents and consequences of new venture growth strategy in an...

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Firm Growth, Capital Choice Preferences, and Impact on Performance : Evidence from the SME Industry

Raju, Deepa - 2016

Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) have differential preference of various funding sources depending on the stage of growth cycle they are in. Quite a few researches have been carried out to decode the link between various funding sources and performance. This study differs from existing...

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