The role of networks in small firm competitiveness
Article Abstract:
The use of networks to obtain outside information has been popularly accepted among firms. Formal relationships such as strategic alliances and joint ventures are common among large companies. However, for smaller companies, the flexible and informal connections are the accepted norm. The behavior of firms in relation to how networks affect the flow of information and competitiveness is analyzed. Data were gathered from interviews with US rural and urban companies. A comparison is made with European industrial districts.
Publication Name: International Journal of Technology Management
Subject: Science and technology
ISSN: 0267-5730
Year: 1996
User Contributions:
Comment about this article or add new information about this topic:
Small and medium-sized enterprises in the European perspective
Article Abstract:
The European Commission's White Paper on Growth, Competitiveness and Employment outlines a strategy for European economic development for the year 2000. The paper recommends the adoption of programs to promote small- and medium-sized enterprises. Such programs are part of a comprehensive industrial strategy promoting market forces in a global context.
Publication Name: International Journal of Technology Management
Subject: Science and technology
ISSN: 0267-5730
Year: 1995
User Contributions:
Comment about this article or add new information about this topic:
- Abstracts: Technology spillovers and informatization in Japan: an analysis of information technology diffusion in large versus small and medium-sized enterprises
- Abstracts: The application of advanced information technology in medicine and health care: a European approach. The ESPRIT of a European R&D network
- Abstracts: Strategizing in the real world. Networks effects, standardisation and competitive strategy: how companies influence the emergence of dominant designs
- Abstracts: Emergence of the supply network in Finnish industry: experiment in theoretical reconstruction. Object-oriented design and implementation of a web-enabled beer game for illustrating the bullwhip effect in supply chains
- Abstracts: [Alpha]-sheet: The toxic conformer in amyloid diseases? Metal ion modulated electron transfer in photosynthetic proteins