SME Growth: The Relationship with Business Advice and External Collaboration

By P. Robson, R. Bennett. 2000

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Management of Technology and Innovation, Strategy and Management

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Determinants and Dimensions of Firm Growth (2009, unknown): “The negative effect of age on firm growth is consistent even among various countries and industries (Geroski & Gugler, 2004; Glancey, 1998; Liu, Tsou & Hammitt, 1999; Reichstein & Dahl, 2004; Robson & Bennett, 2000; Yasuda, 2005).”
Internationalization Orientation in SMEs: The Mediating Role of Technological Innovation (2019, background): “To this end, several authors have attempted to offer support to the above and some few studies have indeed discovered a positive relationship between innovation and SMEs’ performance in terms of growth and profitability (Golovko and Valentini, 2011; Robson and Bennett 2000).”
Age and firm growth. Evidence from three European countries (2013, background): “…that firms grow by re-investing higher earnings (Coad, 2007; Bottazzi et al., 2008), and a measure of the cost of labor per employee which should partially capture the effect of the endowment of skilled workers employed by the firm (Robson and Bennett, 2000; López-García and Puente, 2012).”
Distinguishing micro-businesses from SMEs: a systematic review of growth constraints (2016, background): “In larger SMEs, networking is positively associated with both employment and turnover growth, especially where networks extend outside a firm’s region, nationally and internationally (Donckels and Lambrecht, 1995; Huggins and Johnston, 2009; Robson and Bennett, 2000), and facilitates innovation (Hug”
Entrepreneurial environments and growth: evidence from Malaysia GEM data (2012, background): “Entrepreneurship plays a pivotal role in creating innovation, diversity, increased competitiveness, generating new ideas, employment opportunities, social adjustment and economic growth in industrialised and developing economies (Robson and Bennett, 2000; Gurol and Atsan, 2006).”
Firm Growth: Empirical Analysis (2010, unknown): “Evidence suggests that higher growth rates can be expected for multiplant firms (Variyam and Kraybill, 1992; Coad, 2008), for limited liability firms (Harhoff, Stahl, and Woywode, 1998), and also for exporting firms (Robson and Bennett, 2000).”
Firm Growth : a Survey (2007, unknown): “Whilst Almus (2002) identifies a positive effect of human capital (i.e. university degree or above) on growth for fast-growing German firms, Robson and Bennett (2000) fail to find a significant effect of skill level in explaining employment or profitability growth in their sample of UK small…”
Modeling the relationship between networking and firm performance (2007, background): “This finding is consistent with Robson and Bennett (2000) who reported that, from the private sector, external accountants were the most widely accessed source of advice, followed by banks and lawyers.”
Universities and Knowledge-Intensive Business Services (KIBS) as Sources of Knowledge for Innovative Firms in Peripheral Regions (2015, background): “The importance of external sources of knowledge and particularly business advice for SME growth has long been a source of scholarly interest (e.g., ROBSON and BENNETT, 2000).”
Women‐owned small and medium enterprises in England: Analysis of factors influencing the growth process (2009, background): “While, considering the importance of the use of networks, consideration should be given to literature findings (Cooper et al., 1994; Lerner et al., 1997; Robson and Bennett, 2000) which show no or limited association between formal networking and female-owned firm’s growth.”