The theme of inter-organizational relationships involving SMEs (SME IORs) has generated a
relevant body of knowledge that has not been systematized yet. This article carries out a …

This article presents an exploratory study on the characteristics of women entrepreneurs and
the businesses they run in the Valencia region. Following a close look at the evolution of …

Over the past two decades, services in general, and in particular the business-services
sector (hereafter BSS), are playing an increasingly important role in the global economic …

Despite the ubiquity of small towns, the forces shaping entrepreneurship in cities of limited
size, reach, and scope are unexamined. To address the lack of attention to small town …

The importance of networks for firm internationalization has been pointed out for several
decades. Especially for small and new firms, networks have been found to be an important …

Innovation determines a firm's competitiveness and survival and a joint venture is a fast and
effective way to acquire the missing knowledge that partners require to innovate, but …

Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to examine, from the perspective of different
theoretical approaches, the relationship that exists between different ontological supports of …

Following recent work which uses secondary data sources for supply chain research at the
country‐level, data were obtained from the World Bank and International Monetary Fund …

This paper carries out a bibliographical review of the evolution of the individual level
research, the new individual approaches and analyzes possible methods for the extension …

Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to analyse the structure of knowledge networks and
the geographical patterns of knowledge networking in mature industrial clusters. To such …