...Pedro G. Lima; Jorge Cerdeira; Sofia Alexandra Cruz; Ana Isabel Couto; Cristina Parente Purpose This study aims to determine the performance of women-led small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) relative to male-led SMEs in the context of European peripheral and Nordic countries, concerning sales...

...Daniela Di Berardino; Ludovica Antenozio Purpose This study aims to explore the role of innovation in driving financial performance in innovative small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), distinguishing between female-led and non-female-led firms. It aims to examine which combination of R&D...

...Danping Wang; Dongyu Chen; Linlin Ye; Chris Huang Purpose This paper aims to investigate the influences of strategic orientations and exploratory search strategies on the digital transformation ( DT ) of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Design/methodology/approach This study analyzes...

.../approach A longitudinal multiple case study design was adopted to extract rich data from interviews conducted with nine Russian SMEs during the first two waves of the COVID-19 pandemic. Findings The results suggest that: SMEs with utilitarian organizational identity choose proactive strategic...

...) on the relationship between small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) social ties (business ties and political ties) and firm performance. Design/methodology/approach Data were collected from 1,077 SME top-level managers in Turkiye. The proposed model is analyzed using partial least squares (PLS) path modeling...

... enterprises (SMEs) where Miles and Snow typology was used for strategic orientation of the SMEs. The specific focus of the research is to develop a conceptual framework showing consequents and antecedents of the strategic orientation. Design/methodology/approach This study uses systematic literature...

... and international entrepreneurship. Design/methodology/approach Data were collected from 283 managers of small medium enterprises (SMEs) in Türkiye, an emerging economy. The research was conducted using quantitative methods, and Smart partial least squares (PLS) 4 software was used for data analysis. The data...

...Ankita Sharma; Swati Sharma Purpose This paper aims to present a review of small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) literature on the adoption of technology for marketing with the objective the knowledge trajectory from SMEs to tourism SMEs (TSMEs) and presents a research agenda for the adoption...

... Stakeholders Relational embeddedness SMEs PLS-SEM Business ethics and sustainability In recent years, an intense debate has regarded the damage caused by the dynamics of capitalism as we have been experiencing it in the last decades, its limits and the need to go beyond it (Mazzucato, 2018...

... collected data from enterprises in Ghana that export their products to foreign markets. Knowledge acquisition from foreign markets has benefitted SMEs in a range of developing economies, such as China (Lin et al., 2020), Ghana (Sarsah et al., 2020) and Algeria (Elhachemi, 2022). However...

...Virgo Süsi; Oliver Lukason Purpose The purpose of this study is to find out how corporate governance is interconnected with failure risk in case of small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Design/methodology/approach The study is based on Estonian whole population of SMEs, in total 67,058...

..., risk-taking), three types of functional performances of firms (R&D performance, production performance, marketing and sales performance) and the overall performance of firms. The data are collected from 279 high-tech small-to-medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) using a postal survey. The proposed...

...Darush Yazdanfar; Peter Öhman Purpose The purpose of this study is to investigate the association between firm sales growth and employment level as a proxy for job creation among small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Design/methodology/approach The hypotheses were empirically examined...

...Warat Winit; Sooksan Kantabutra Purpose This paper aims to examine the relationship between stakeholders’ perceived benefits and happiness of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) that follow Thai’s corporate sustainability practices, called sufficiency economy, and their impact on stakeholder...

...Bereket Mamo Buli Purpose The Purpose of this paper is to examine the difference in the performance of Small Business using Entrepreneurial and market orientation. There is solid empirical evidence confirming the importance of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in economic development...

...Tino Woschke; Heiko Haase; Jan Kratzer Purpose This study deals with the impact of resource scarcity on the innovation performance of small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). The purpose of this paper is to scrutinise whether resource scarcity among SMEs has an effect on their innovation...

...Ho Chea Hooi; Noor Hazlina Ahmad; Azlan Amran; Syed Abidur Rahman Purpose The purpose of the study is to delve the influencing factors of sustainable entrepreneurship among SMEs in Malaysia. The heightened awareness in sustainable development coupled with globalisation has created immense...

... Factor Analysis. A Cronbach’s alpha test was also conducted and the Composite Reliability Index was calculated to ensure reliability of the theoretical model. The instrument was distributed among manufacturing small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in the Aguascalientes region of Mexico, from were 125 valid...

...Bedman Narteh Purpose – The paper aims to investigate small and medium-scale enterprises (SMEs) bank selection and patronage behaviour in the Ghanaian banking sector. Design/methodology/approach – A detailed literature review was used to identify five determinants of bank selection...