How Can External Relationships Enhance Innovation in SMEs? New Evidence for Europe*

By A. Lasagni. 2012

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Strategy and Management

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Unravelling appropriability mechanisms and openness depth effects on firm performance across stages in the innovation process (2017, background): “…that stemm from the investigation of open innovation practices and firm performance notably include investigation of SMEs (e.g. Gronum et al., 2012; Huang and Rice, 2009; Kim and Park, 2010; Lasagni, 2012; Parida et al., 2012) and several longitudinal studies (see Tsai and Wang, 2007a, 2007b).”
The nature of SME co-operation and innovation: A multi-scalar and multi-dimensional analysis (2013, unknown): “Given the predominance of the former among firms, in this paper, we follow Lasagni (2012) in focusing upon inbound innovation.”
Inter-organizational collaboration and SMEs’ innovation: A systematic review and future research directions (2020, background): “Adopting the RBV perspective, scholars highlighted that collaboration relations are resources that can provide small firms with access to more resources and increased economic value in the form of innovation (Ebersberger & Herstad, 2011; Lasagni, 2012).”
The Effect Of Inbound, Outbound And Coupled Innovation On Performance (2012, background): “innovation and international exposure is frequently predictable (Lasagni, 2012).”
Personal Characteristics of Entrepreneurs in the Context of Perception and Management of Business Risk in the Sme Segment (2015, background): “In this regard Lasagni (2012) indicates that her results show that innovation performance is higher in SMEs that are proactive in strengthening their relationships with innovative suppliers, users, and customers.”
Open innovation: a new classification and its impact on firm performance in innovative SMEs (2015, methodology): “Along with other researchers in the OI domain, we would like to understand whether a broad or deep (intensive) OI adoption may enhance firm performance, but unsatisfied with the approaches taken to date relying on a limited number of proxies, we propose a concurrent method by interpreting OI adoptio”
How do micro-firms manage coopetition? A study of the wine sector in France (2018, background): “…2007), policydriven networks (Lockett et al., 2013), innovation networks (Gardet and Fraiha, 2012; McAdam et al., 2014), external relationships (Lasagni, 2012; Street and Cameron, 2007), inter-firm cooperation (Hanna and Walsh, 2008), (inter-firm) alliances (Van Gils and Zwart, 2009) and so…”