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The aim of the study is to analyze the actual demand of SMEs from the Baltic Sea region for innovation support. The … results of the conducted study can help formulate recommendations designed to increase innovation and competitiveness of SMEs … in the Baltic Sea Region in the future. Research activities of this study include: the evaluation of innovation level of …
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innovation in business has been done …
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The remarkable influx of Chinese migrant entrepreneurs in different West African countries in recent years has been met with growing resistance by established local entrepreneurs. Whether the former have a competitive edge over the latter because of distinctive socio-cultural traits, or whether...
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The authors demonstrate a problem of innovation support by business support institutions (BSIs) operating in the market … sources of financing. The situation requires further research on the causes of such a low utilisation of BSIs’ innovation …
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Statistical offices do not provide sufficiently disaggregated tax statistics for calculating the relative tax burden of SMEs. We estimate the respective average and median tax burden of small, medium-sized and big corporations in Germany for the period 1998 to 2007 using enterprises micro panel...
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This study investigates human resource management (HRM) practices in SME sector Turkey vis-à-vis economic system …
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various techniques which keep costs at a minimum, and is often adopted by small companies. In this research, 100 SME’s that … said to be adopted by small companies, this research shows that most of the Turkish SME’s had never used or willing to use …
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This paper reports a survey result conducted in May 2012. We sent a questionnaire to 3,000 small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), whose main business sector is manufacture and which locate in Aichi Prefecture, one of the largest economic regions in Japan. 803 SMEs answered this...
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This short paper is the extended part of Ghouri, et al. (2011) study. This paper presents the finding about the owners of restaurant and catering businesses marketing practices. This study showed their mindset about the marketing practices. The findings suggest that owners of restaurants and...
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observe the SME condition, its contribution to economic development in Turkey as well as to explore the constraints, issue and …
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