for the past 3 decades, creating industrial clusters have been considered as an approach for the development of most small and medium enterprises. the goal of this programme is that all small and medium enterprises locating in a certain geoghraphic area can concentrate on cluster approach to collaborate in market research, production design, training and other activities that are not economical...

Purpose Building on the recent capability-based conceptualisation of resilience, this paper aims to explore whether experience a previous crisis and entrepreneur resilience are associated with Small- medium-sized enterprises (SMEs') adoption different anticipation strategies for adversities. Design/methodology/approach Using original survey data 959 Italian German SMEs, research uses multinomia...