Collaboration with strategically important and prestigious partners enhances SME performance

Strategic collaboration and exchanging resources with prestigious partners seems to attract more partners and customers, which, in turn, has a positive effect on the performance of small- and medium-sized enterprises, a new Finnish study shows. Published in Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, the study was conducted in collaboration between researchers from the University of Vaasa, Aalto University and the University of Eastern Finland. SMEs often have limited resources at their disposal, and this is why companies aiming at rapid internationalisation should consider collaboration with