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Potentiale der griechischen Privatwirtschaft liegen weiterhin brach

Kritikos, Alexander S.; Handrich, Lars; Mattes, Anselm - In: DIW Wochenbericht 85 (2018) 29, pp. 641-651

Die Auswertung neu verfügbarer Daten zeigt, dass die Wertschöpfung griechischer Privatunternehmen in den letzten zehn Jahren nominal um 38 Prozent eingebrochen ist. Besonders stark traf es dabei Kleinstunternehmen. Trotz aller Bemühungen, das makroökonomische Umfeld zu stabilisieren, hat...

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CMU - a Threat to the German Banking Sector?

Gischer, Horst; Ilchmann, Christian - In: Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung 86 (2017) 1, pp. 81-94

To counteract (alleged) stagnating lending and the consequential low investment activity across the European Union following the 2008 financial crisis, the European Commission developed the Capital Markets Union Action Plan in 2015. After a brief overview of the status quo of the banking sector...

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An analytics approach to adaptive maturity models using organizational characteristics

Baars, Thijs; Mijnhardt, Frederik; Vlaanderen, Kevin; … - In: Decision Analytics 3 (2016) 1, pp. 1-26

Ever since the first incarnations of maturity models, critics have voiced several concerns with these frameworks. Indeed, a lack of model fit and oversimplification of the real world can be attributed to the rigidity of these models, which assumes that each organization that uses the framework...

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Industrial revolution - industry 4.0: Are German manufacturing SMEs the first victims of this revolution?

Sommer, Lutz - In: Journal of Industrial Engineering and Management (JIEM) 8 (2015) 5, pp. 1512-1532

company size. This deepens the knowledge in adaption deficits German SME still have and opens different approaches for further …

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Investing in lean to improve basic capabilities: A strategy for system supply?

Carlsson, Inga-Lill; Aronsson, Håkan - In: Journal of Industrial Engineering and Management (JIEM) 10 (2017) 1, pp. 28-48

Purpose: This paper describes the perceived effects of implementing lean production in a Swedish SME contract …/methodology/approach: SME suppliers need basic capabilities of qualitative production performance which may then be stepping-stones to develop … flexibility. This is a longitudinal single case study of a SME supplier striving to become a system supplier. Two main sources of …

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Capital allocation, credit access, and firm growth in Viet Nam

Kinghan, Christina; Newman, Carol; O'Toole, Conor - 2018

allocation in Viet Nam over the period 2005-2015. Using data from the UNU-WIDER Viet Nam SME survey, we test whether firms with …

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Pecuniary returns to working conditions in Viet Nam

Nordman, Christophe J.; Sharma, Smriti - 2018

Using matched worker-firm data from three waves of the Viet Nam Small and Medium Enterprises data, we examine whether workers are compensated with higher wages for working in vulnerable jobs and unfavourable working conditions. Wage equations indicate that there are no clear compensating...

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Certification and business risk

Trifković, Neda - 2018

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the scope for international private standards to play a role in reducing business risk. Business risk is measured as variability in revenue, customer base, informal payments, and temporary firm closure. The results show lower levels of business risk...

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Financial inclusion, financial literacy, and financial education in Azerbaijan

Ibadoghlu, Gubad - 2018

This paper discusses the status of financial inclusion, education, and literacy in Azerbaijan as well as measures to foster the development of SMEs, which currently have inadequate access to financial resources. The primary policy challenge faced by the government of Azerbaijan is defining its...

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Der Beschäftigungsbeitrag kleiner und mittlerer Unternehmen nach der EU-Definition / The Employment Contribution of Small and Medium-sized Enterprises According to the EU-definitio...

Engel, Dirk; Trax, Michaela - In: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik 228 (2008) 1, pp. 64-83

Summary Statements emphasizing the major contribution of the small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) for net job creation are quite frequent. Concerning the current definition of SMEs provided by the European Commission (EC), this paper makes a first attempt to approximate SMEs’ contribution...

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