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Procuring Innovation
Cabral, Luís M B; Cozzi, Guido; Denicolò, Vincenzo; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006
To stay on top of global competition, firms and governments often need to acquire innovative goods and services, including ideas and research, from their strategic suppliers. A careful design of procurement policy is crucial to make potential suppliers generate and sell the most suitable...
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Cultural Constraints In Leading Malaysian SMEs To Global Markets
Hussain, Sayed Mushtaq - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
Abstract: Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) play an important role in the economic development of many countries …. SMEs are also dominant in the Malaysian economy. Their contribution to the national economy, however, remains modest in … to local producers. Given their size and structure, the SMEs in Malaysia are particularly affected by these challenges …
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What Makes Small and Medium Enterprises Competitive
Morone, Piergiuseppe; Testa, Giuseppina - Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche, Matematiche e … - 2005
competitiveness. By developing a conceptual model we identify the sources of competitiveness of Italian SMEs. The model is tested … using a unique database which collects data, for the year 2004, over a sample of 2,600 SMEs. …
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Italian industrial districts: a model of success or a weak productive system?
Schilirò, Daniele - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
development model, based on SMEs, which is founded on the specialization of productions, on innovation and internationalization …
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ENSURING COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE IN SMES IN THE CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY IN ROMANIA THROUGH TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATION
Railean, Ludmila - In: Revista Tinerilor Economisti (The Young Economists Journal) 1 (2011) 17, pp. 110-117
During the current construction firms operating in a competitive environment internally and externally powerful. Confrontation between markets is particularly harsh, and that competition should be seen in its actual size, since only in this way will be able to take all necessary measures to...
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Some Operational Aspects Relating to Quality Management and Total Quality Management
GRESOI, Sorin; DIACONU, Aurelian - In: Romanian Statistical Review Supplement 61 (2013) 1, pp. 32-37
The work pass in review a few basic concepts found in quality management focusing on operational aspects of quality assurance in production activity and continue with issues regarding total quality strategy, the vector of competitiveness on the market.
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Organizational culture and the Competitive Strategies in the cellulose, paper and cardboard industry in Mexico
Solís, Francisco Martín Villarreal; Romero, José … - In: REVISTA AD-MINISTER (2014)
The objective of this study is to analyze the possible relationship between the degree of flexibility or rigidity of the organizational culture and the use of competitive strategies in the industry of paper, cardboard and pulp in Mexico. Currently the volatile and competitive environment in...
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Italian industrial districts: a model of success or a weak productive system?
Schilirò, Daniele - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
development model, based on SMEs, which is founded on the specialization of productions, on innovation and internationalization …
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The Role of Innovation Activities in Tourism and Regional Growth in Europe
Korres, George M. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
Tourism plays a crucial role for national economies throughout the world. In Europe, international tourism receipts were almost three times higher in the late 1990s than they were in the late 1980s. Tourism has great potential as regards contributing to the achievements of several major EU...
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Inequality,Poverty and Hunger in Developing Countries: Sustainability Implications
Nwaobi, Godwin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
For several decades, the international community has aspired to integrate the social, economic and environmental dimensions of sustainability. Yet, no country has achieved the patterns of consumption and production that could sustain global prosperity in the coming decades. Thus, with the...
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