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The globalization drives SMEs (small and medium-sized enterprises) — like big enterprises — to enter and act on foreign markets. Due to their limited resources SMEs are acting different compared to their big counterparts. Networks play a major role in the internationalization process of SMEs. Many studies have shown how networks affect the pre-phase and first foreign market entry but do not investigate...
This Research expands on the key links between Small and Medium Sized Enterprises (SMEs), jobs and SME access to investment/ finance these days. SMEs accounts for more than half of all jobs worldwide that is very important to alleviate poverty in least developing countries. We aim to examine the source of finance to women owned SMEs because women face unreasonably higher barriers to their male counterparts...
The role of e-business or the use of information and communication technology (ICT) for business activities in advancing sustainable industrial development is well acknowledged. As one of the key drivers in manufacturing growth, e-business can potentially enable increased productivity and industrial competitiveness. The adoption of e-business in remanufacturing, an emerging strategy in sustainable...
Small and medium enterprises' (SMEs) contribution to the economic growth of a country is widely acknowledged. The shift of consumer's consumption habits from offline to online demands SMEs to adopt e-business. SMEs, on the other hand, despite all the benefits that e-business could offer, have been slow to adopt it. Adding to adoption pressure is the trade liberalization around the world that necessitates...
Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) are often described as the engine of growth for a country's economy due to their significant economic contributions. At the same time, ebusiness offers an opportunity for SMEs to significantly further their growth as it has been identified as a tool that could improve an enterprise's operational efficiency and competitiveness in the global market. Despite the promised...
The analysis of the private sector, mainly composed of micro, small and medium-sized business, briefly known as the SMEs sector, reveals many competitive aspects but also weaknesses, while the economic and social importance of the sector makes it imperative to elaborate specific development and consolidation strategies and policies. In order to establish such strategic directions, based on data on...
The objective of this paper is to show the extent to which a fragmented industry may be transformed into a sustainable one. The philosophy assumed is that businesses which follow good corporate governance principles and act in transparency by disclosing all relevant information to stakeholders are highly likely to be sustainable. A sustainable business purposively designs and /or develops its business...
Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are the important driving forces for the growth of China's economy. However, financing difficulty has always been the important problem besetting the development of SMEs for a long time. In this paper, based on micro-data from 2007 China Industrial Enterprise Database, Propensity Score Matching (PSM) method is adopted to conduct empirical analysis of indirect...
This paper analyzes the decision-making problem confronting SMEs considering the adoption of cloud computing as an alternative to in-house computing services provision. The economics of choosing between in-house computing and a cloud alternative is analyzed by comparing the total economic costs of the two options assuming the quality of service is identical across the options. The decision-making...
Research and Development in a peculiar field such as Satellite Communications (as well as Space science/technology in general) is known to be the ideal stage both for large, transnational companies with the functions of large integrators and system/service providers, and for Small-Medium Enterprises (SMEs) specialized in vertical technologies and/or services. Both kinds of actors, and SMEs in particular,...
The paper attempts to understand the prevalence of outsourcing among entrepreneurs in small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) in Malaysia. Outsourcing is a convoluted process and can bring new development opportunity for the SMEs to quest for their competitiveness. A sample of ten SME entrepreneurs from Malaysia participated in this study. A series of interviews were conducted among these entrepreneurs...
This study attempted to examine the relationship between corporate governance and tax compliance among the Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in Malaysia. Currently, SMEs are a rapidly growing business and play a significant role in boosting economic growth, as job provider, and leader in product innovation, as well as, tax revenue collection. Prior studies reported that in large companies, corporate...
Small and medium sized enterprises have been recognized as the main driver of economic development of a country. Hence their development is the main issue of discussions in the literature. In Pakistan, 96% of its SMES are employed less than five workers (Very Small and Medium Sized Enterprises-VSMEs). These enterprises face a lot of difficulties in their development. Hence, this paper examines the...
Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are the most active component in our country's national economy, whose status, role and achievements have been universally recognized. However, technology innovation is a high-risk economic activity, whose innovation risk is also an important factor of affecting the sustainable development of SMEs. How to respond to the influence of technology innovation risk...
Using small and medium-sized enterprises as the research object, this paper studies their financing through commercial credit means in the industrial cluster environment. Based on the definition of industrial cluster of small and medium-sized enterprises, and competitive advantage and industrial cluster can ascend SME's financing capability, summarizes the research of industry cluster, the unique...
Most of our nation's SMEs have not yet established scientific human resources management performance evaluation systems, which restrict the benign progress of human resources for SMEs. According to the previous studies, this article established an index system of the SMEs' human resources management performance evaluation, discussed the application of fuzzy mathematics in human resources management...
With the progress of society, of mind, the rights of taxpayers become more and more widespread attention, especially economic globalization and further development of tax reform, tax planning for SMEs to provide a wider space. At this stage, the economic development of SMEs has become an important component of its development level of China's economic growth and raise the level of urban employment...
With the development of global economic integration, the establishment of enterprise standard system has become an opportunity to standardize the anagement tools and improve the management level for China's SMEs. Modern SMEs can only improve their international competitiveness and productivity levels when they face the new situation and establish enterprise standard system with a positive attitude...
The existence of information asymmetry in the real credit market is the key to SMEs financing difficulties. This has already become a common view of many scholars. Meanwhile, Gresham's law appears due to the lack of a credit rating system specially designed for SMEs as well as management after loan in commercial banks. This article exposes the substantial causes of SMEs predicaments in financing from...
It's an effective way for SMEs to select new business model to respond to more rigid competition of environment and to improve performance. The first step for SMEs to make choice of new business model is to identify the weakness of existing business model. Then identification of value creation sources in new business model is needed. Thirdly, SMEs should conduct designing of transaction structure...
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