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Facilitating Agricultural Trade in Asia and the Pacific, Studies in Trade and Investment 74
ESCAP, United Nations - Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific …
The growth of agricultural trade has direct implications for the Asia-Pacific region. Agricultural supply chains employ millions of people and there is a growing need for food commodities and high-value food products. The Asia-Pacific region is both a major consumer and producer of agricultural...
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Logistics as a Competitiveness Factor for Small and Medium Enterprises in Latin America and the Caribbean
Kirby, Carlos; Brosa, Nicolau - Inter-American Development Bank - 2011
The logistics industry is one of utmost relevance and principally serves as a motor of private sec-tor development and growth of the economic sectors of a country or region. A logistics industry that is efficient and accessible to everyone is a key element for companies in a country or region in...
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The determinants of eco innovation in green supply chains: evidence form an Italian sectoral study
Frey, Marco; Iraldo, Fabio; Testa, Francesco - Istituto di Management, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna - 2011
In the last years attention has increased to the eco-innovation topic. Empirical studies have demonstrated that innovating firms grow faster, have higher productivity and are more profitable than their less innovative counterparts (Geroski et al., 1993; Roper and Hewitt-Dundas, 1998). Drawing upon a...
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How do SMEs to rise at the top of the supply chain? An econometric exploration of the French auto industry (In French)
FRIGANT, Vincent; PERES, Stéphanie; VIROL, Stéphane - Groupe de Recherche en Économie Théorique et … - 2012
that SME still manage to reach the summit of a pyramid which is less narrow and closed that it is usually presented. In …
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Do SMEs' linkages with Large Mining Firms improve their performance? Evaluating heterogeneity among firms.
Atienza, Miguel; Lufin Varas, Marcelo; Sarrias, Mauricio - Instituto de Economía Aplicada Regional, Facultad de … - 2013
analyzes whether the relationship between SME suppliers and large mining companies implies more growth in sales an labor. We … methodology allows us to estimate whether first and second tier SME suppliers of the mining industry have, on average, better …
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Egyptian pyramid or Aztec pyramid: How should we describe the industrial architecture of automotive supply chains in Europe?
FRIGANT, Vincent - Groupe de Recherche en Économie Théorique et … - 2011
This article questions a terminology that is frequently used to describe automotive supply chains’ industrial architecture. Since vertical disintegration became a trend in the 1980s, this architecture has been represented using the image of the pyramid. Implicitly, authors have had the image...
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LOGISTICS MANAGEMENT MODEL FOR SMALL AND MEDIUM-SIZED TEXTILE ENTERPRISES
Cano-Olivos, Patricia; Orue-Carrasco, Fernando; José … - In: Review of Business and Finance Studies 5 (2014) 1, pp. 61-68
The worldwide market opening and globalization of supply chains demand a series of structural changes where logistics plays a strategic role. Customers evaluate the quality of the product, its added value and its availability in time and form, which involves making processes more efficient. Some...
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Innovationstätigkeit im Mittelstand: Messung und Bewertung
Maaß, Frank; Führmann, Bettina - Institut für Mittelstandsforschung (IfM) Bonn - 2012
Unternehmen (KMU) im Vergleich zu Großunternehmen in Deutschland. Hierzu wird die vorhandene Literatur ausgewertet und die … KMU innovativ sind. Dies ist insbesondere hinsichtlich der technologischen Innovationen zu beobachten. Neueste … zeigt sich eine besondere Stärke der KMU. In der Gesamtbetrachtung sind die KMU deutlich häufiger innovativ als bislang …
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Basel II und Auswirkungen auf den Mittelstand: Total Quality Management und das Bewertungsrisiko von KMU
Gürtler, Marc; Schunck, Stefan - Department Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Technische … - 2002
KMU eine Erhöhung ihrer Kapitalkosten bzw. sogar die Gefahr, dass ihnen keine weiteren Kredite gewährt werden. Ein … positives Rating ist deshalb ein grundsätzliches Ziel eines KMU. Eine Möglichkeit zur Steigerung der Bonität ist das Total … Transparenz eine Bewertung der KMU durch Banken erleichtert. …
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Involvement of small and medium sized enterprises in the private realisation of public buildings
Heinecke, Bastian - Fakultät Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Technische … - 2002
This paper explores the procurement of public buildings in local authorities in the UK under the Private Finance Initiative (PFI) and its consequences for small and medium sized enterprises. Following an outline of the development of PFI in the UK, the paper explains the peculiarities of local...
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