Sailing through the Storms towards Treasure Island: the Relationships between Strategies, Obstacles and Firm Performance

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RIVISTA INTERNAZIONALE DI SCIENZE SOCIALI

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RIVISTA INTERNAZIONALE DI SCIENZE SOCIALI - 2019 - 1

Titolo

Sailing through the Storms towards Treasure Island: the Relationships between Strategies, Obstacles and Firm Performance

Autori

Giacomo Damioli, Maria Del Sorbo, Claudia Ghisetti, Daniel Vertesy, Andrea Vezzulli

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Vita e Pensiero

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07-2019

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10.26350/000518_000024

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0035-676X (stampa) | 1827-7918 (digitale)

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Companies devise strategies to successfully navigate an uncertain business environment. They need to tackle regulatory or market obstacles in order to succeed. This study focuses on the complex relationship between strategies, obstacles and firm performance. It uses regression techniques on a cross-national sample of 37,150 European companies in 14 Member States to study the correlation between: i) firms’ perceptions about the importance of strategies and obstacles, and ii) firms’ innovation and economic performance. The findings indicate that firms pursuing cost reduction strategies and perceiving the lack of demand and adequate finance as obstacles experience poor performances. By contrast, those pursuing adaptability strategies and perceiving the lack of qualified personnel as an obstacle grow faster, and those with explicit product innovation strategies innovate more. High-growth enterprises appear less sensitive about financial constraints, more interested in the availability of skilled labour and benefiting more from cooperation than the others.

keywords

Entrepreneurship, Strategic Management, High-growth Firms.

Biografia degli autori

Giacomo Damioli, European Commission, Joint Research Centre. Email: giacomo.damioli@ec.europa.eu
Maria Del Sorbo, European Commission, Joint Research Centre. Email: maria.delsorbo@ec.europa.eu
Daniel Vertesy, European Commission, Joint Research Centre. Email: daniel.vertesy@ec.europa.eu
Claudia Ghisetti, European Commission, Joint Research Centre & Department of Economic Policy, Catholic University of Milan. Email: claudia.ghisetti@unicatt.it
Andrea Vezzulli, Department of Economics, University of Insubria. Email: andrea.vezzulli@uninsubria.it

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