hinder or prevent the cross-border provision of services by German and Dutch SMEs in selected border regions. The respondents … often considered necessary. A not insignificant proportion of SMEs in both countries do not comply with individual …

hinder or prevent the cross-border provision of services by German and Dutch SMEs in selected border regions. The respondents … often considered necessary. A not insignificant proportion of SMEs in both countries do not comply with individual …

essential to step up bank lending to SMEs in the medium term. Beyond financing issues, boosting innovation would support … productivity gains, and SME competitiveness and growth. Also, easing labour market regulation would further support SME development … of the Netherlands (www.oecd.org/eco/surveys/economic-survey-netherlands.htm).<P>Favoriser le développement de PME …

problem and the overemphasis on tertiary education. Enhancing educational quality at all levels would promote productivity … gains, including in services. Strengthened competition is also a key to narrow the large productivity gap between services … secteur tertiaire. Le renforcement de la concurrence offre également une piste pour combler l’écart de productivité important …

medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) active in the field of tourism. First, a brief description of the tourism sector in the … European Union is given, stressing the fact that this sector is dominated by SMEs. Then, a short comparison is made between EU … and Romanian tourism SMEs. Following the main characteristics and tendencies of the tourism sector, a SWOT analysis is …

(SMEs) in manufacturing and across different types of services. The study explores the extent to which binding constraints … faced by SMEs producing goods may differ from small firms operating in services sectors and takes stock of how existing … performance of SMEs in manufacturing, it is an ambiguous predictor of export performance in the case of small-sized services firms …

-keeping requirements would or might prove burdensome, concerns arise on the potential impact of the ‘VAT record keeping requirement’ on SME’s … keeping skills and accounting system based on a sample of 250 SME’s selected from five key trading centres in the Accra …. Generally the result showed that the ‘record-based controls of VAT’ has significantly improved SME’s record keeping skills and …

The relationship between large enterprises (LEs) and small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in Japan has undergone major … changes during the long-term recession since 1991. While SMEs still play the important role of supplying parts and components … in manufacturing. While efficient SMEs selected by LEs were able to expand their businesses, inefficient SMEs lost …