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Teder, Juhan; Venesaar, Urve - Majandusteaduskond, Tallinna Tehnikaülikool - 2005

The research is based on the empirical survey conducted among the members of Estonian Association of SMEs. The study involved goal setting, development and implementation of strategies, competitive advantages striven for, orientation toward growth, and factors hindering enterprisesí...

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TURKISH SMALL & MEDIUM SIZED ENTERPRISES- A case study: Nazilli

Gürak, H. - EconWPA - 2004

Small and medium sized enterprises (KOBIs in Turkish) make up about 98 percent of all manufacturing firms in Turkey. They make a significant contribution to the economy in terms of output, employment, value-added and economic growth. Unfortunately, there seems to be many obstacles restraining...

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Les implications exterieures de l'UEM

Benassy, Agnes; Italianer, Alexander; Pisani-Ferry, Jean - Centre d'études prospectives et d'informations … - 1993

Chacun s'accorde pour dire que l'Union Economique et Monetaire Europeenne (UEM), si elle se fait, aura des consequences majeures sur l'economie mondiale, a travers differents canaux deja bien identifies : l'ecu concurrencera le dollar comme monnaie internationale ; la substitution de l'ecu a...

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The Food Processing Industry, Globalization and Developing Countries

Wilkinson, John - In: eJADE: electronic Journal of Agricultural and … 1 (2004) 2

Transformations in the food processing sectors of developing countries are increasingly seen as strategic from the point of view of export earnings, domestic industry restructuring and dietary issues. This article reviews a selection of the literature on these themes. It begins with a discussion...

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THE INTERFACE OFTHE MARKETING AND FINANCIALPROBLEMS OF SMALLAND MEDIUM Sâ€¹ZED BUSINESSES IN ESKISEHIR

Torlak, Omer; Uckun, Nurullah - In: Anadolu University Journal of Social Sciences 5 (2005) 1, pp. 199-216

SMEs have some problems about not only the management and qualified human resources but also marketing and finance. Actually, the interface of these two problems is also the main reason of many others. The aim of this study is to determine marketing and financial problems and interface of these...

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RELATIONSHIP LENDING - EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE FOR GERMANY

Memmel, Christoph; Schmieder, Christian; Stein, Ingrid - Economics Department, European Investment Bank (EIB) - 2008

Relationship lending is a common practice in credit financing all over the world, notably also in the European Union, which has been assumed to be particularly beneficial for Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (SMEs). During recent years, there has been the impression that relationship lending...

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The evolution of Italian Firms: from the “Cina in Europe” to the new developing solutions

Colaninno, Matteo - In: BANCARIA 6 (2006) June, pp. 8-14

The entrepreneur is an innovator devising, creating, destroying and starting again a business. In a deep changed world, the development of a firm is influenced by the relationship with the financial market and the banks that also in the next years will have a significant role in the financing...

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Politique Industrielle et PME : Nouvelle Politique et Nouveaux Outils ?

Carré, Denis; Levratto, Nadine - EconomiX, Université Paris Ouest-Nanterre la Défense … - 2008

After having sought to reduce production costs, economic policies dedicated to SMEs tend to promote cooperation and to become more and more systemic. These sorts of policies refer to different underlying models in which firms and technology play different roles. This paper aims at studying the...

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Research and development: financial constraints and the role of public funding for small and medium-sized enterprises

Czarnitzki, Dirk - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2002

German small and medium?sized firms (SME). Special attention is paid to the role of public R&D subsidies. For this purpose … SME in Western and East-ern Germany are compared because these regions are very different in their supply of public R …&D funding. It turns out that Western German SME are financially constrained in their R&D activities by both internal and …

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The Indirect Costs of Venture Capital in Canada

Carpentier, Cécile; Suret, Jean-Marc - Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des … - 2005

Some analysts and policy makers consider that the growth of New Technology Based Firms (NTBF) is impeded by an insufficient supply of capital. In Canada, as in other jurisdictions, the public authorities have interceded to fill this equity gap by increasing the supply of funds. However, several...

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