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Quality Management System an ace in the sleeve of the SME to gain competitiveness on the international markets

Hmelnitchi, Carmen; Neamtu, Ion - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

international market. So that, obtaining quality products and services have to be the principal strategic objective and the SME have … requirements is a true „ace in the sleeve of the SME” for gaining competitiveness. …

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Aligning at ISO 9001 requirements - a true challange for Romanian SMEs

Hmelnitchi, Carmen; Neamtu, Ion - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

Beginning with ’90 years in Romania have been created more and more private enterprises, which today form a consistent sector of so called “small and mid-sized enterprises” (SMEs). Focusing on profit and being in favorable conditions with a high market require, the SMEs not always pay...

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Performance à l'exportation et innovation technologique dans les PME manufacturières indépendantes

Bourgault, Mario; Lefebvre, Élisabeth; Lefebvre, Louis A. - Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des … - 1994

Small and medium enterprises have strengthened their importance during the last decades in most industrialized countries, including the United States, Germany, Japan and Canada. The province of Quebec makes no exception as firms of less than 200 employees generate a substantial portion of its...

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Technological Penetration and Cumulative Benefits in SMEs

Lefebvre, Élisabeth; Lefebvre, Louis A.; Roy, Marie Josée - Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des … - 1994

The relative importance of the benefits derived from the adoption of computer-based administrative and production applications depends to a large extent on the level of technological penetration attained by a particular firm. This evolutionary perspective is investigated in an empirical study...

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Reprise d’entreprise et compétences relationnelles du nouveau dirigeant (Entreprise revival and relational compentencies of the new manager)

Gourdon-Cabaret, Delphine - Laboratoire de Recherche sur l'Industrie et … - 2006

influencera la réussite ou l’échec de la reprise. When taking over a SME, the new leader will get negotiated and relatively well …

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On the explanation of horizontal, vertical and cross-sector R&D partnerships – evidence for the German industrial sector

Backes-Gellner, Uschi; Maass, Frank; Werner, Arndt - Institut für Strategie und Unternehmensökonomik … - 2005

This paper investigates the determinants of inter-firm cooperation in research and development (R&D). We analyse the impact of structural and firm specific characteristics, market performance, access to resources and managerial techniques on different types of inter-firm R&D cooperation. Based...

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Social and Symbolic Capital and Responsible Entrepreneurship: An Empirical Investigation of SME Narratives

Fuller, Ted; Tian, Yumiao - In: Journal of Business Ethics 67 (2006) 3, pp. 287-304

This paper investigates links between social capital and symbolic capital and responsible entrepreneurship in the context of small and medium enterprises (SMEs). The source of the primary data was 144 â€˜Business Profilesâ€™, written by the owner-managers of small businesses in...

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The impact of public guarantees on credit to SMEs

Zecchini, Salvatore; Ventura, Marco - In: Small Business Economics 32 (2009) 2, pp. 191-206

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Functional dependence and productive dependence of SMEs

Guzmán-Cuevas, Joaquín; Cáceres-Carrasco, Rafael; … - In: Small Business Economics 32 (2009) 3, pp. 317-330

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How SME Uniqueness Affects Capital Structure: Evidence From A 1994–1998 Spanish Data Panel

Sogorb-Mira, Francisco - In: Small Business Economics 25 (2005) 5, pp. 447-457

The principal aim of this paper is to test how firm characteristics affect Small and Medium Enterprise (SME) capital … suggest that non-debt tax shields and profitability are both negatively related to SME leverage, while size, growth options … and asset structure influence positively SME capital structure; they also confirm a maturity matching behaviour in this …

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