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This paper models firm survival in Kenyan manufacturing with a particular emphasis on the effect of credit on firm resilience. The paper explores how firms coped with the challenging economic environment that prevailed in the 1990s particularly the effect of the dramatic increase in interest...
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The impact of entry upon market performance depends not only on the number of entries and their size, but also on how long do the firms last. Consequently, there are an increasing number of papers, most of them focused on the United States and restricted to the manufacturing sector, aimed at...
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information systems effectiveness or success has been an important criterion for practitioners and researchers in justifying the … measuring enterprise systems success. Having successfully implemented the model in Queensland, the researchers have yet to see …
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Firm growth is almost universally portrayed as a good thing, and is commonly used as a measure of success. Applying …
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Business-to-business (B2B) electronic marketplaces (e-marketplaces) are one of the most heralded developments in recent years. These marketplaces bring together businesses buying and selling goods and services in an online buying community. E-marketplaces promise to increase the efficiency and...
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ICD were compiled from the literature. The indicators were grouped into nine Criteria for Success: 1) Adequacy of design … Criteria for Success from the literature. Project performance overall was judged to be ‘adequate’, and the majority of … stakeholders equated project success with the timely completion of activities, and how projects had contributed to livelihoods and …
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increasing the likelihood of success and upward mobility in corporate America. Numerous facets of the personal and professional … interview senior level managers and executives within local companies and see what their experience and success has taught them …
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essential for TQM success. We examine the measurement practices of this cohort of firms, and report on the changes in their …, and we show that increased measurement intensity is strongly associated with perceived TQM success. Finally, using … multivariate discriminant analysis, we identify eight variables that explain the level of TQM success with a classification …
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Full-text of this article is not available in this e-prints service. This article was originally published in Librarian Career Development, published by and copyright Emerald Group Publishing Ltd.
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. The paper reports on perceived TQM success for a cohort of 109 firms over a 5-year period. Some 42 firms, predominantly … small in size, had discontinued with TQM, while the remaining 67 firms reported varying degrees of success. The data … significant effect on TQM outcomes for this cohort. The research has also highlighted some necessary antecedents for TQM success …
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