Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises and the Global Economy

Inbunden, Engelska, 2007

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Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) often have difficulty competing in the global economy unless they collaborate with domestic or foreign partners or with public sector organizations. This book addresses the resource leverage and innovation challenges that increased global trade represents for SMEs. In doing so, it explores how SMEs can become more competitive at home and in foreign markets as stand-alone firms or as members of supplier and customer networks.SMEs are turning increasingly to innovation as a source of competitive advantage in order to protect their home markets and participate in expanding foreign markets. The contributors to this volume - leading experts in entrepreneurship, innovation, and international business - provide in-depth coverage of the most compelling issues facing SMEs. These include: innovation as a competitive strategy, network dynamics, ways to leverage technology, internationalization, and the role of the public sector in helping SMEs to overcome resource deficiencies. This comprehensive look at SMEs in the global marketplace will be of great interest to academics who study entrepreneurship, innovation, or international business, officials from public sector agencies with responsibility for helping SMEs to internationalize and become more innovative, and senior executives of SMEs or executives of larger companies who are considering collaboration with SMEs.

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Utgivningsdatum2007-02-23
Mått169 x 244 x undefined mm
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
FörlagEdward Elgar Publishing Ltd
ISBN9781845425951

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Contents:Introduction1. IntroductionGerald I. SusmanPART I: INNOVATION AND COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE 2. Exploring the Reach of Innovation-Related Cooperation in Small Firms Mark Freel3. Innovation, Productivity and Growth: An Analysis of Irish DataJames H. Love and Stephen Roper4. Innovation Strategies and Manufacturing Practices: Insights from the 2005 Georgia Manufacturing SurveyJan Youtie and Philip ShapiraPART II: NETWORK DYNAMICS5. Economies of Speed: A Conceptual Framework to Describe Network EffectivenessIrene J. Petrick and Carleen Maitland6. Sourcing of Innovation as Trendsetting in the Imaging Sector: A Comparison between Large MNEs and SMEsJohannes M. Pennings and Gino CattaniPART III: TECHNOLOGY AND ENHANCED CAPABILITIES7. The Fastest Growing SMEs in Canada: Their Strategies, e-Commerce and Network PracticesHamid Etemad8. Knowledge and Capabilities in Subcontractor’s Evolution: The Italian CaseRoberto Grandinetti, Andrea Furlan and Arnaldo Camuffo9. The Communication of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Through the Supply Chain: A SME PerspectiveCraig H. Wood and Allen KaufmanPART IV: INTERNATIONALIZATION10. A Comparison of the Pace and Pattern of Internationalization by US and Canadian High-Growth FirmsDavid J. Maslach and Rod B. McNaughton11. The Effects of Product Diversification and International Diversification on SMEs’ InnovationJane Wenzhen Lu and Zhijian Wu12. 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. Jones13. A Comparative Study of Canadian and UK High-Technology SMEs’ Internationalization ProcessesDave Crick and Martine Spence14. SME Choice of Export Market and Entry Mode: Theory and ResearchGerald I. Susman and Jenna P. Stites PART V: ROLE OF THE PUBLIC SECTOR15. US States and the Global Economy: Trends and Policies in the Mid-Atlantic and MidwestTerrence Guay16. University Research Parks: Untapped Source of Exports from Innovation-based SMEs Paul M. Swamidass and Venubabu Vulasa17. Issues Surrounding the Internationalization of SMEs: Implications for Policy Makers and ResearchersPaul Westhead, Mike Wright and Deniz UcbasaranPART VI: EXECUTIVE SUMMARIESDiamond V Mills, Mark KujawaMarkel Corporation, James HobanX-Rite Incorporated, Joan AndrewsRevere Copper Products, Thomas O’ShaughnessyLake Shore Cryotronics, Inc., Karen LintBrock Solutions, Inc., Vivienne OjalaDALSA Corporation, Savvas ChamberlainUS Small Business Administration, Manuel RosalesKennametal Inc., Markos I. Tambakeras Index

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