... of supplier’s product innovation. Also, focus was not placed on high-tech SMEs in relationships with foreign buyers. As a result, our study provides unique insights on such relationships and unveils new details on an indirect link between trust and product innovation. Jacek Strupinski can be contacted...

...Gentjan Çera; Valentina Ndou Purpose The purpose of this study is to investigate the influence of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) on the sustainability of Central European SMEs by emphasizing the role of innovation as a mediator and social media as a moderator. Design/methodology/approach...

... or intangible, to successfully exploit online strategies. Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), in particular, face unique challenges in identifying and deploying the appropriate resources and capabilities to capitalize on the opportunities presented by the digital world (Heubeck and Meckl, 2022 ; Li...

...Thomas Trabert; Luca Doerr; Claudia Lehmann Purpose The organizational digital transformation (ODT) in companies presents small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) – who remain at the beginning of this transformation – with the challenge of offering digital services based on sensor technologies...

...Mohammad Azizi; Hamid Hosseinloo; Jane F. Maley; Marina Dabić Purpose Coaching is a widespread form of human development that has grown considerably in recent years. However, it is not well understood in entrepreneurship and small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and little is known about...

...Kaisa Henttonen; Hanna Lehtimäki Purpose This study examines how technology-intensive small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) engage in open innovation. The purpose of this paper is to add to the literature on open innovation in SMEs, which has received considerably less attention than open...

...Stefanos Marangos; Lorraine Warren Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine what strategies the CEOs of research and development (R&D) intensive small/medium enterprises (SMEs) in the life sciences sector carry out in regard to open innovation (OI), as R&D costs continue to rise...

... and energy consuming (Murdoch, 2000). In other words, this means that especially SMEs have to acknowledge networks as resources, and on the other hand, they have to pay attention to how to utilise this resource in a way that it does not overwhelm their core activities and actually adds value. Rural...