SMEs in a Globalised World

Edited by Helena Lenihan, Bernadette Andreosso-O’Callaghan and Mark Hart

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Abstract: This insightful book shows how small and medium enterprises (SMEs) from some of the traditionally less dynamic peripheral economies of the ‘old’ EU – namely Ireland, Italy, Portugal and Spain – have responded to the twin challenges of globalisation and industrial restructuring. Through a series of unique case studies the contributing authors discuss how these economies, and in particular the SME sector, can be transformed.

Keywords: Business and Management; Economics and Finance; Urban and Regional Studies (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: R0 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
ISBN: 9781848440098
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Chapters in this book:

Ch 1 SMEs in a Globalised World: Conceptual Issues

Helena Lenihan, Bernadette Andreosso-O’Callaghan and Mark Hart

Ch 2 Why do SMEs Grow? A Rejection of Gibrat’s Law for Spanish Firms (1994–2002)

Mercedes Teruel-Carrizosa

Ch 3 Access of Small Firms to Knowledge Networks as a Determinant of Local Economic Development

Miren Larrea, Alazne Mujika and Mari Jose Aranguren

Ch 4 Innovation Behaviour of Spanish Fashion Manufacturing SMEs

José L. Calvo and Angel L. Culebras de Mesa

Ch 5 Family-based Firms: Evidence from the Portuguese Furniture and Events Organisation Industries

Vitor Braga and Bernadette Andreosso-O’Callaghan

Ch 6 Forms of Industrial Development in Chinese Specialized Towns and Types of Challenges to European Manufacturing SMEs: An Italian Perspective

Marco Bellandi and Annalisa Caloffi

Ch 7 MNE Subsidiaries, Productivity Spillovers and SMEs

Rita Buckley

Ch 8 Entrepreneurship and Inward Foreign Direct Investment in Portugal

Natália Barbosa and Vasco Eiriz

Ch 9 The Large Leader Firm: Good or Bad? A Case Study of a Leader Firm–Supplier Relationship

Helen McGrath and David Jacobson

Ch 10 Dynamics of the SME Sector in Ireland: A Driver of Growth in the Irish Economy Since 1994?

Helena Lenihan, Briga Hynes and Mark Hart

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