Types of innovation, sources of information and performance in entrepreneurial SMEs

By Miika Varis, Hannu Littunen. 2010

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Subfields: Communication, Strategy and Management

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Citations in the corpus

• How entrepreneurial SMEs compete through digital platforms: The roles of digital platform capability, network capability and ambidexterity (2019, background): “Entrepreneurial SMEs are a key source of flexibility and innovation (Gray, 2006; Varis & Littunen, 2010).”
• Technology transfer in a global economy (2012, background): “creating new areas of economic activities in stimulating new firm creation and entrepreneurship (Varis and Littunen 2010).”
• The Relationship between Innovation and Firm Performance: An Empirical Evidence from Turkish Automotive Supplier Industry (2013, background): “Like many other scholars, Varis and Littunen (2010) argued that the ultimate reason for firms to engage in innovation activities is to improve firm performance and success.”
• Determinants of innovativeness in SMEs: disentangling core innovation and technology adoption capabilities (2017, background): “The complex and multidimensional character of innovation is reflected in the inter-relationships that exist between technological innovations (product innovation and process innovation), and those innovations coming from the administrative system (organisational innovation and marketing innovation) ”
• Impact of information technology innovation on firm performance in Kenya (2019, background): “Entrepreneurs need to stimulate innovation because the success and survival of a business depend on its ability to innovate continuously (Varis & Littunen, 2010).”
• Commitment-based HR practices, different types of innovation activities and firm innovation performance (2013, background): “Damanpour and Evan 1984 ; Damanpour and Gopalakrishnan 2001 ; Varis and Littunen 2010 ).”
• The Impact of Innovation on the Performance of Small and Medium Manufacturing Enterprises: Evidence from Malaysia (2013, methodology): “Consistent with this argument, Varis and Littunen’s (2010) study on SMEs in Finland found that process innovation is positively related with firm performance.”