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In advanced economies, rising inequality has become a significant economic issue. Our paper examines one dimension of the impact of inequality. This study employs panel estimators that tackle heterogeneity and cross-sectional dependence to estimate the impact of income inequality on import...
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Drivers of environmental quality have recently been identified in a large body of literature. However, the ecological effects of both regimes of monetary policy remain under-explored so far. Moreover, previous studies use limited samples and econometric approaches. Climate change from the...
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food SMEs, covering the whole supply chain. Results show that tacit knowledge is more prominent than explicit one. The use …&D spending has a negative influence on innovation's success among the food SMEs. …
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performance of SMEs. The main hypothesis of the study is that a special type of organizational culture (termed innovative culture … survey of 473 SMEs operating in manufacturing and services industries in Poland. Our statistical analysis relied on building …
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service SMEs. Statistical data analysis methods included EFA, CFA and multiple regression modeling. The major finding is the …
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hierarchical levels. In many SMEs, however, such formal mechanisms are complemented or even replaced by informal social networks … among managers and employees. Despite the relevance of intraorganizational networks, past research on SMEs, however, was … focused mainly on the interorganizational level of analysis. To cover this gap, we map ego networks of senior managers in SMEs …
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This paper analyzes the determinants of small and medium-sized enterprises’ technology adoption in the retail trade industry. From the theoretical perspective, two types of influential factors are differentiated in this respect: the personal characteristics of the manager/business owner and...
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“Integrated system for innovation management in SMEs”, code PN-II-PT-PCCA-2013-4-1319, under way at the Business Administration … Romanian SMEs in adopting the open innovation principles. In order to reach this objective, the authors analysed the available … statistical data for the period 2002-2012 concerning the trend of the SMEs’ weight in the total innovation businesses compared to …
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Within the special environment of the ChiNext market, we study how an internationalization strategy affects the independent innovation of Chinese entrepreneurial companies from two dimensions: R&D input and patent output. An internationalization strategy has a significant incentive effect on R&D...
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and used in the value creation process. In this paper, we focus on small and medium-sized companies (SMEs) and study their … while the ability of SMEs to build a strong knowledge-capital remains weak (mainly due to fewer resources), SMEs play an …
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