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Human Resource challenges for growing SMEs. How Flemish entrepreneurs attract, develop and retain employees

Van Bruystegem, K.; Van De Woestyne, M.; Dewettinck, K. - Vlerick Business School - 2008

growth. We investigated the interplay between the focus of HRM and the growth phase of an SME. The main objective is to …

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Trade and Investment Liberalization Effects on SME Development: A Literature Review and a Case Study of Indonesia

Tambunnan, Tulus - Asia-Pacific Research and Training Network on Trade … - 2007

As this research seeks to bring to the fore benefits that have been or may be derived for SMEs from international trade and investment liberalization in Indonesia, it has three main questions: (1). how international trade and investment policy reforms affect local SMEs; (2) has growth of exports...

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Performance of export-oriented small and medium-sized manufacturing enterprises in Viet Nam

Trung, Tran Quoc; Tung, Nguyen Thanh; Dong, Tran Duy; … - Asia-Pacific Research and Training Network on Trade … - 2008

The study recommends the formulation of policies that support the development of business linkages and networking, and which promote subcontracting arrangements between small and large enterprises or between domestic firms and foreign investment enterprises. It is also necessary to support and...

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Record keeping practices and tax compliance of SMEs

Evans, Chris; Carlon, Shirley; Massey, Darren - Australian Taxation Studies Program (ATAX), Faculty of Law - 2006

stakeholders – SME owners/managers, practitioners and ATO auditors – perceived (to varying degrees) direct relationships between … poor SME record keeping practices and adverse tax compliance outcomes. But those perceptions were not always confirmed by … should seek more objective measures of the quality of SME record keeping practice, utilising evaluations by advisers (as …

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The Effects of Fiscal Incentives and Public Subsidies on Private R & D Investment.

Domínguez, Angeles Marra - In: Hacienda Pública Española (2008) 1, pp. 35-66

SME, while R&D subsidies have a small positive effect on company financed R&D expenditure, with no crowding out of private …

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Comparative Analysis of Firm Dynamics by Size: Korean Manufacturing

Oh, Inha; Heshmati, Almas; Baek, Chulwoo; Lee, Jeong-Dong - Ratioinstitutet - 2006

have caused disorder in the SME sector. …

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An integrated approach for TQM implementation in SMEs

Pereira, Zulema Lopes; Pedroso, Leonilde Marques - In: Enterprise and Work Innovation Studies 1 (2005) 1, pp. 83-92

This paper tackles the broad issue of TQM implementation in SMEs. It includes a review of two models aimed at improving organisational performance, the EFQM Excellence Model and the Balanced Scorecard, which have been widely used in large organisations. Both models are examined as to their...

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Tamaño, estructura y coste de financiación de las empresas manufactureras españolas

Segura, Julio; Toledo, Liliana - In: Investigaciones Economicas 27 (2003) 1, pp. 39-69

In this article we analyse the impact of firms’ size on their financial and cost structure. We use a panel of 2000 Spanish manufacturing firms for the period 1991-1998. We find that the marginal cost of external finance of firms varies inversely with their size. Also the smaller the firm the...

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Foreign Banks in Eastern Europe: Mode of Entry and Effects on Bank Interest Rates

Claeys, Sophie; Hainz, Christa - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006

Credit markets in many Eastern European countries are now dominated by foreign-owned banks. We analyze the development for foreign ownership and its impact on lending rate in ten Eastern European countries between 1995 and 2003. Currently, the majority of loans from foreign banks is granted by...

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Transformation of a Woodworking and Furniture Industrial District in Kampala, Uganda: Dichotomous Development of SME Cluster and Large Firm Sector

Yoshida, Eiichi - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2008

furniture SME district in Uganda has created a learning environment for artisans to start up their own workshops. In the … dispersedly from SME district and have a negative image to SME. This dichotomy has been created partly through spatial division of …

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