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... Dynamic capabilities Crisis Strategic management Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) often depend on repeat business from a few core customers to sustain their performance and growth, making them vulnerable to competitive changes (Gilmore et al., 2004). Even a small decrease in sales...

... SME Strategic management The political powers in Europe are touting small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) [1] as being motors for employment, export trade and territorial stability (Autio, 2007). Some SMEs result from high levels of steady growth over the course of several years...

... and Pearce (1990) as one limitation of the Miles and Snow (1978) typology. Performance Rasch model Strategic positioning Strategic management Strategic reference points Strategic types © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2014 Studies focusing on the effect of strategic positioning...

... at: giacomo.boesso@unipd.it © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2012 Small to medium‐sized enterprises Strategic types Innovation types Open innovation Large enterprises Performance levels Strategic management Italy Dynamic industry situations often require companies to adapt...

... internationalization through decentralization or partnership. Originality/value Although few studies have empirically analysed the role of environmental scanning in a particular domain, such as intellectual property strategic management, or adopted a comparative cross‐cultural design to do so, this paper...

...; joint ventures – as a partial exit to spread the company's investment; public listing on stock exchanges; mergers with another company; and cessation of trading, liquidation. Leadership Organizational change Business planning Strategic management Career development Built...

... technology-based SMEs address human resource development as part of their overall strategic management. To put these observations into context, it should be noted that generally there was limited evidence of a strategic management approach. This is as would be expected on an intuitive basis...