Progress in telecommunications and infrastructure, coupled with liberalization in international organizations, has introduced a number of new competitors to existing SMEs. This book analyzes strategic aspects of SME development that may help to promote growth: high-tech development, productivity...

How Long Do you Want to Tolerate the Fact That Your Organization Is Hindering Growth? -- Is Your Organization Ready for Growth? -- Take a Good Look at Your Marketing Department - Do You See Creative Geniuses or Conceptional Pros? -- Is Your Sales Organization a Dark Silo or a Real Growth Driver?...

Call for Action: From Financial and Economic Crisis to Working Capital Trap -- Determination of the Internal Financing Power of Corporate Growth via the Self-Financeable Growth Rate -- Strengthening Internal Financing Power using Cash-to-cash Cycle Optimization -- Measures for Strengthening...

The process of firms' growth - in terms of productivity or employment - is a major concern of policy makers. In this context, innovations are considered to play a crucial role in stimulating firms' performance. This book investigates this general hypothesis by looking at three topics: 1. Does...

Phases of growth and decline are part of every organizational life and are, therefore, constantly represented in the management literature. Companies anticipating or facing downturns often react with restructuring activities in order to reverse the declining business situation in the long term....

Continuous Gibrat#x2019;s Law and Gabaix#x2019;s Derivation of Zipf#x2019;s Law -- Flow of Firm Creation -- Useful Properties of Realizations of the Geometric Brownian Motion -- Exit or #x201C;Death#x201D; of Firms -- Deviations from Gibrat#x2019;s Law and Implications for Generalized Zipf#x2019;s Laws -- Firm#x2019;s Sudden...

This book covers the strategic use of continuous improvement (CI) techniques for manufacturing performance improvement. It focuses primarily on strategies that can be adopted by small and middle-sized enterprises in manufacturing in order to meet the global challenges and competition. The book...