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Small and medium-sized enterprises and the global economy /

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Susman, Gerald I.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cheltenham, UK ; Northampton, MA : Edward Elgar, [2007]
Subjects:
Small business.
International trade.
Online Access:Table of contents only
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Gerald I. Susman
  • Exploring the reach of innovation-related cooperation in small firms / Mark Freel
  • Innovation, productivity, and growth : an analysis of Irish data / James H. Love, Stephen Roper
  • Innovation strategies and manufacturing practices : insights from the 2005 Georgia manufacturing survey / Jan Youtie, Philip Shapira
  • Economies of speed : a conceptual framework to describe network effectiveness / Irene J. Petrick, Carleen Maitland
  • Sourcing of innovation as trendsetting in the imaging sector : a comparison between large MNEs and SMEs / Johannes M. Pennings, Gino Cattani
  • The fastest growing SMEs in Canada : their strategies, e-commerce and network practices / Hamid Etemad
  • Knowledge and capabilities in subcontractor's evolution : the Italian case / Roberto Grandinetti, Andrea Furlan, Arnaldo Camuffo
  • The communication of corporate social responsibility (CSR) through the supply chain : an SME perspective / Craig H. Wood, Allen Kaufman
  • A comparison of the pace and pattern of internationalization by US and Canadian high growth firms / David J. Maslach, Rod B. McNaughton
  • The effects of product diversification and international diversification on SMEs' innovation / Jane Wenzhen Lu, Zhijian Wu
  • Should high technology SMEs expect to internationalize by passing through a sequence of development stages that affect choice of export market and entry mode? / Marian V. Jones
  • A comparative study of Canadian and UK high technology SMEs' internationalization processes / Dave Crick, Martine Spence
  • SME choice of export market and entry mode : theory and research / Gerald I. Susman, Jenna P. Stites
  • US states and the global economy : trends and policies in the mid-Atlantic and midwest / Terrence Guay
  • University research parks : untapped source of exports from innovation-based SMEs / Paul M. Swamidass, Venubabu Vulasa
  • Issues surrounding the internationalization of SMEs : implications for policy-makers and researchers / Paul Westhead, Mike Wright, Deniz Ucbasaran.