The paper presents multivariate analysis of the relationship of SME growth with the
acquisition of external business advice, whilst controlling for the influence of SME …

The study of institutions and innovativeness is presently high on the agenda of the social
sciences. There is increasing concern with how a society's innovativeness is associated with …

Most current theoretical treatments view business associations as rent-seeking, special
interest groups. Yet, empirical research in a wide range of developing countries reveals a …

Institutionalists commonly invoke exogenous shocks or the transposition of logics across
national systems to explain institutional change and new path creation. Using organizational …

This paper reports new survey results on the extent, sourcing and impact of external
business advice to SMEs in Britain. The survey, covering 2547 respondents, is the largest …

This volume addresses several distinctive but interrelated problems. First, This it is very
much concerned with identifying the various institutional mechanisms by which economic …

Los estudios sobre las experiencias de desarrollo han llegado cada vez más a la
conclusión de que una estrecha colaboración entre las empresas y los gobiemos contribuye …

We examine how interaction between mid-level managers in technical committees facilitates
subsequent alliance formation in a longitudinal study of 87 cellular service providers and …

The perspective of this paper is that variation in commercially successful radical
product/process innovations among science-based industrial sectors can be explored by …

This research analyzes the link between innovation and internationalization in a regional
system of small traditional firms in the clothing and textile industry, with special attention …