...Andrew Johnston; Daniel Prokop Purpose As the Open Innovation (OI) literature suggests that smaller firms may derive greater advantages from collaborations, micro-firms stand to benefit significantly from engaging in this process. Furthermore, as micro-firms exhibit a preference for separating...

... of resource dependence, collaborative learning and social exchange, this article seeks to identify the motivators for corporations' involvement in collaboration with startups and assess the level of completion of the benefits assumed through the acceleration programme. Design/methodology/approach...

...Dee Gray; Katherine Fiona Jones Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore the potential of a collaborative organisational development and learning (OD/L) programme for small and medium-sized enterprise’s (SME’s) and micro businesses (MB) to contribute towards business resilience...

... et al. (2010) have introduced the notion of collaborative communities, which are a non-hierarchical organizational form where organizations and actors work together in network-like structures to pursue common interests. These types of structures are known in political science as delivery...

...David Barnes; Fintan Clear; Romano Dyerson; G. Harindranath; Lisa Harris; Alan Rae Purpose The paper aims to report on an exploratory study into how small businesses use Web 2.0 information and communication technologies (ICT) to work collaboratively with other small businesses. The study had two...

... to medium‐sized enterprises Business growth Collaboration Online marketing Business development The internet provides leverage for small businesses because it has significantly reduced the cost of marketing, and created mechanisms whereby individuals can make use of other people's connections...