SME innovation, exporting and growth: A review of existing evidence

By J. Love, S. Roper. 2015

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

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R&D internationalization in medium-sized firms: The moderating role of knowledge management in enhancing innovation performances (2019, background): “17 2018) and, when medium-sized companies were taken in to consideration, the analysis almost always focused on the high-tech sector (Palmiè et al., 2016; Narula, 2004; Love and Roper, 2015).”
Effects of innovation strategies on export performance: New empirical evidence from developing market firms (2020, background): “Product and process innovations lead to high productivity and growth (Love and Roper, 2015).”
Innovation in Family Firms: A Systematic Literature Review and Guidance for Future Research (2018, background): “…characterized by quick decision-making, willingness to take risks and flexibility in responding to new market opportunities, so that innovation is more dependent on external knowledge obtained through partnerships and spillovers than internal research and development (R&D) (Love and Roper 2015).”
Defining firm competitiveness: A multidimensional framework (2020, background): “They are also more likely to export, and to do it successfully (Love and Roper, 2015; Cassiman et al., 2010).”
Innovation with Limited Resources: Management Lessons from the German Mittelstand (2018, background): “Supporting this argument, German SMEs—and in particular Mittelstand firms—have been shown to lead in exports both within and outside the EU, surpassing the average in proportion to firms exporting within the EU (20% vs. 14% EU average for SMEs; European Commission, 2014a) and accounting for nearly 2”
Experience, age and exporting performance in UK SMEs (2016, background): “In a recent comprehensive review of the literature on SME exporting, innovation and growth, Love and Roper (2015) draw three key conclusions.”
Impact of inclusive leadership on innovative work behavior: The role of psychological safety (2017, background): “…focus on capitalizing employees’ capability to create and implement new ideas to improve product quality (Ghobadian & Gallear, 1997; Cagliano, Blackmon, & Voss, 2001; McAdam & McClelland, 2002; Enkel & Gassmann, 2010; Hotho & Champion, 2011; Brunswicker & Vanhaverbeke, 2015; Love & Roper, 2015).”
Inclusive leadership and innovative work behavior: The role of psychological empowerment (2018, background): “These companies were selected because they were facing high pressure in a complex, changing environment, where they had a high focus on innovation (Bellingkrodt & Wallenburg, 2015; Brunswicker & Vanhaverbeke, 2015; Huang, Lin, Wu, & Yu, 2015; Love & Roper, 2015).”
SMEs strategy and scale constraints impact on agri-food supply chain collaboration and firm performance (2020, background): “…scale and scope, higher capital, transaction and spill-over costs, limited resources and capabilities which, in general, makes them more vulnerable to LE especially in uncertain and volatile industries (Gherhes et al. 2016; Love and Roper 2015; Singh and Power 2009; Singh, Garg, and Deshmukh 2008).”
Firms’ knowledge search and local knowledge externalities in innovation performance (2017, background): “There were also no SOC tatistics available for the City of London Local Authority due to small sample sizes. licy 46 (2017) 43–56 49 innovation, although we make no inference about causal links from this association (Love and Roper, 2015).”