...Gaffar Hafiz Sagala; Dóra Őri Purpose Globalisation, financial crises, technology disruption and the recent COVID-19 pandemic have escalated competition and market uncertainty that threaten the survival of small and medium-sized enterprises ( SMEs ). Related to this issue, scholars indicate...

... of circular economy (CE) actions by small and medium-sized enterprises (SME). Design/methodology/approach This paper analysed a large-scale international sample by employing logistic and linear regression models to test the research hypotheses on the effects of I4.0 technologies, GVC participation...

...Bin Gao; Kaidong Yu Purpose This study, adopting a knowledge perspective, aims to explore how small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) engage in service innovation by implementing design thinking. Design/methodology/approach A qualitative research methodology and a multiple case study...

...Stoney Brooks; Arvin Sahaym; Avimanyu Datta; Smita Srivastava Purpose This study examines the conditions when “managerial perception of the contribution of social media” (SMC) enhances and inhibits entrepreneurially oriented small and medium-size enterprises' (SMEs') ability for new product...

... 2018 15 04 2019 27 05 2019 © Emerald Publishing Limited 2019 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only SME Life satisfaction Job embeddedness Innovation Community embeddedness Innovative work behaviour Organization embeddedness H2...

... Guarantee Institutions) are able to convey some entrepreneurial orientation (EO) dimensions from firms to banks. Design/methodology/approach Exploiting data from a survey of Austrian and Italian SMEs, the empirical analysis is based on a sample of 328 small business firms. To test the signalling...

...Alexander Brem; Petra A. Nylund; Emma L. Hitchen Purpose The purpose of this paper is to study the relationship between open innovation and the use of intellectual property rights (IPRs) in small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). The authors consider patents, industrial designs (i.e. design...

...Lara Agostini; Anna Nosella Purpose Considering that SMEs are widely recognized as important innovators and, in the past years, have registered increasing levels of patenting, the purpose of this paper is to unveil the impact of both internal and external knowledge sourcing on SME patenting...

...Anna Arbussa; Andrea Bikfalvi; Pilar Marquès The purpose of this paper is twofold: to connect strategic agility and business model (BM) innovation, and to explore how capabilities underlying strategic agility fit the SME context. The originality of this paper is that it looks at the SME...

... enterprises (SMEs). Design/methodology/approach This paper reports the findings from the introduction of HK to four manufacturing SMEs by following an assistance support-based research approach where teams of coaches and researchers observed and learned from the introduction phase. The overall design...

...Barbara Francioni; Fabio Musso; Marco Cioppi Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore how characteristics of decision-makers influence internationalization strategies within small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), with a particular focus on the strategic decision-making process (SDMP...