Determinants of Technical Efficiency in Small Firms
By R. Alvarez, G. Crespi. 2003
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Subfields: Accounting, Economics and Econometrics
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Citations in the corpus
- Sustainability of SMEs in the Competition: A Systemic Review on Technological Challenges and SME Performance (2019, background): “The lower productivity is frequently reported in the literature due to less capability in obtaining scale merits in production operation and various other reasons [20].”
- Are Small Firms Really Less Productive? (2005, result): “Empirical studies on the relationship between establishment size and efficiency have not generated unambiguous results, although they suggest that, in many sectors, large establishments tend to be more efficient than small establishments (see, for example, Caves and Barton, 1990, pp. 115–130; Alvar”
- How do micro-firms manage coopetition? A study of the wine sector in France (2018, background): “Such constraints impact upon competitiveness creating difficulties in exploiting economies of scale, limiting access to credit, diverse forms of capital and assets (Alvarez and Crespi, 2003; Berrone et al., 2014; Colombo et al., 2012).”
- Drivers of Entrepreneurship and Post-Entry Performance of Newborn Firms in Developing Countries (2014, unknown): “attention of firms’ owners to other business opportunities, who could end up paying little attention to the working of their actual business (Alvarez and Crespi, 2003).”
- Are small firms less efficient? (2009, background): “The less efficient SMEs are often attributed to the following causes: such as their inability to take advantage of scale economies, the difficulties they face in getting access to credit for investment, the lack of resources in terms of qualified human capital, and the informality of contracts with ”