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In recent years, the business environment has experienced a fast-paced change due to issues such as geopolitics or COVID-19. Accordingly, business internationalisation has been accelerated while the approaches followed for such an end have been improved to maintain companies' competitiveness. Within this context, this paper presents a new framework for the internationalisation of Earth Observation SMEs in two target countries: Australia and Chile. Internationalisation can be an effective strategy for SMEs to grow and expand, but it requires careful research, analysis and agile adaptation to markets and cultures through an integrative and innovative methodology. Secondly, a series of preparatory actions and several internationalisation strategies have been developed, including online bilateral meetings and online trade missions. This work is an innovation driver for the internationalisation of European SMEs, helping them to make the leap into two markets of great interest and in two very attractive sectors, agriculture and maritime, with remote sensing as the nexus. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

During the pandemic, several countries implemented job retention programmeswith the goal of preserving human capital and supporting a quick recovery. This work uses administrative records to show the impact of the job retention programme in Chile across firms of different industries and sizes. Using a calibrated model based on survey data of households and our administrative register of workers-firms, we then show that the Chilean Employment Protection Law increase aggregate consumption by 0.3% and helped to smooth household consumption during the period between March of 2020 and March of 2021. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study examines how size and other firm attributes explain establishment‐level productivity catch‐up using an establishment‐level panel dataset from Chile. Results suggest overall productivity convergence with comparatively slower rate to the foreign‐owned component in the frontier. Firms that are small in size, non‐exporter, non‐importer, and low technology‐concentrated demonstrate greater catch‐up rate. Additionally, foreign‐invested firms (FIFs) exhibit faster catch‐up rate to the industry frontier than their domestic counterparts. Finally, geographic proximity to the frontier significantly boosts the catch‐up rate. Results are robust to the inclusion of firm‐level control variables and sample selection bias, and the estimated catch‐up rate is not sensitive to sample size. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The largest companies in salmon aquaculture are rapidly getting bigger due to organic growth as well as mergers and acquisitions, and the largest are now multi-national companies. There are two main explanations for this growth: 1) An attempt to become large enough to exploit market power, or 2) Size is necessary to adopt new technologies that increase the efficient scale. In this paper, we investigate the degree of concentration in each of the main producer countries for Atlantic salmon, as well as globally for Atlantic salmon, all farmed salmon, and all salmon to account for the global nature of the market using Herfindahl-Hirschman Indexes. The results indicate a high degree of concentration in the smaller producer nations but not in Chile and Norway. Globally, the Atlantic salmon industry can be characterized as unconcentrated, and it becomes even more so when the supply of other farmed salmon and wild salmon is accounted for. Hence, the main motivation for the increased company size appears to be capacity to adopt new knowledge and technology. • Farmed salmon produciton is rapidly increasing, as is company size. • We computed industry concentration using Herfindahl-Hirschman indexes. • Concentration is high in some of the smaller production countries. • Globally, the industry is unconcentrated. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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We explore an hitherto unused approach to testing marginal productivity theory. Our method rests on the simple idea that, under the assumption of a linear homogeneous production function, residual profits are informative about the discrepancies between factor payments and marginal products. Our empirical application using data on manufacturing plants in Chile suggest moderate deviations from marginal productivity theory which depend on firm size. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

This article describes some of the most common contingency's factors which helps chilean's SME to born and grow up. Lately, some common elements that describes the frame and performance of those organizations are characterized, being detached elements like improvisation and misalign between strategy and production assets (including human resources); facts that drives SME to low performance. To fight against this negative facts, the use of prescriptive normative managements models connected with others non prescriptive but complementary, is suggested. This frame will enable SME to obtain synergy, a real business process improvement and the alignment of them with organization's strategy. Finally, the article gives some proposals to facilitate the new SME's management system adoption, detaching the benefits from competitiveness's improvement and the better access to financing. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]