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Foreign Competition and Small-Firm Entry in US Manufacturing
... especially small firms, seem clearly impacted by competitive pressures from foreign ...by small firms in several size ...benefit small firm entry through access to cheaper inputs where the ...
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Minority Small-Firm Credit Applicants: Does Persistence Pay?
... Race of the owner is significant in affecting credit search persistence, by increasing the probability of the firm’s trying, applying to more than one financial institution for credit. The results are similar for firms ...
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Challenges facing small-firm managers in growing manufacturing firms
... the firm to grow initially (a simplistic ...a small firm requires a combined strategy of innovativeness and ...of small firms, it is difficult for the top managers to change their behaviour in ...
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Small Firm Internet Adoption: a Market Oriented Approach
... A review of the literature indicates that although the potential benefits of web-based commerce are well documented (e.g. Armstrong & Hagel, 1996; Hamill, 1997; Hoffman & Novak, 1997), there is a paucity of ...
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Learning as a social enactment of the Small Firm Owner/Manager
... those firm employees whose power is ...individual firm employee/owner/manager and their ability to perceive new or novel patterns through their experience and developed ...of firm employees learning ...
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Small firm finance and public policy
... very small number of fast-growing ...very small firms that might have little growth potential, should be supported by ...new Small Business Service as it attempts to create a better match between the ...
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2013 VBA SOLO & SMALL FIRM CONFERENCE
... and Small Firm Conference, May 16-17, at the Basin Harbor Club in ...law firm technology, and on the “life cycle” of the small or solo ...of small firm practice in ...
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The process of embedding a small firm in its industrial context
... This study reveals that the demarcation of networking activities according to existing hierarchies within the sector can help a new venture comply with industry norms (Hanna and Walsh, 2008). However, we also discover ...
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Small Firm Internet Adoption: a market oriented approach
... of small firms, defined as having 19 or less employees (McLennan, 1999) were similarly connected to the Internet (Yellow Pages Business Index, ...by small firms, only 27% utilise the medium to advertise ...
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Learning as a Social Process of Social Interaction in the Knowledge Based Small Firm
... knowledge-based small firm in order to offset the fragility of ...knowledge-based small firm as it often arises accidentally out of social exchanges of diverse knowledge, an important factor ...
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Missing the point? Finding contextual detail in entrepreneurship and small firm scholarship
... Coleridge’s passage is a fitting analogy for entrepreneurship and small firm (Entre/SME) scholarship in which context is, at once, everywhere, yet nowhere in the analytical spotlight. One factor behind the ...
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Small-Firm Networks and strategies for consolidation: evidence from the Brazilian context
... among small firms, called small-firm networks-SFN (Jarillo, ...the firm may obtain benefits such as access to services, risk sharing, legitimacy and status (Podolny & Page, 1998; Lotia ...
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An Alternative View of Small Firm Adaptation
... the small firm owner’s disposition to learning from that of the small firm’s ability to ...the small place-based firm embedded in a web-impacted environment, it is through selection of ...
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'The bearer of the mechanism of change': small firm inventiveness and patenting in Norway
... Moreover, it has been shown that the measures to study size-effects involve serious difficulties which tend to lead to unreliable results. For example, R&D expenditure data is inherently problematic, especially ...
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Survival of the small firm and the entrepreneur under demand and efficiency uncertainty
... the small …rms depend on two …rm-speci…c determinants: the e¢ciency parameter, which represents the skills of the entrepreneur to manage and cope e¢ciently with the everyday tasks of the small …rm, and the ...
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Management development from the perspective of small firm owner-managers
... Conclusions and Implications Although SME owner-managers are disconnected from formal training & learning programmes, they are not disconnected from other forms of learning and managemen[r] ...
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Venture Capital and the Small Firm
... (i) Personal savings of the entrepreneur or team: this is typically the primary source of initial funding. Even though the amounts involved are typically quite small, this funding is important for two reasons. ...
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Engaging the Small Firm in Learning: practice based theorising on complex social knowledge in the SME Firm
... a firm agent changes their practice their knowing is ...a firm agent can learn to know differently as they use means and opportunities to reflect on, experiment with and opportunity to improve their ...and ...
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Small Firm Effect, Liquidity and Security Returns: Australian Evidence
... In Table 12 we report the results of the regression analysis for bid-ask spread as our proxy for liquidity costs. The regression coefficients show that the intercept, (a coefficient), is statistically indistinguishable ...
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Missing the point? finding contextual detail in entrepreneurship and small firm scholarship
... Finally, a framework drawing on Erving Goffman’s interaction order 1955, 1961, Harold Garfinkel’s Ethnomethodology 1967 and Harvey Sacks’ Conversation Analysis Sacks & Jefferson, 1995 is[r] ...
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