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THE IMPORTANCE OF GAGE R&R FOR IMPLEMENTING SIX SIGMA PROJECTS IN SMEs

OHOTA, Adina Andreea; IORDACHE, Vlad - In: Journal of Doctoral Research in Economics 3 (2011) 2, pp. 30-40

The difference between the economic agents that offer similar products or services is made based on quality. Consumers are too poor to accept poor quality goods. Ant the other external pressures accentuate the importance of quality as competitive advantage, in relation with increasing...

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CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY- A NEW PERSPECTIVE FOR SMEs IN ROMANIA

POPA, Oana - In: Management and Marketing Journal X (2012) 1, pp. 153-164

This article presents the theme of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), a subject of great interest for the management of organizations and for the scientific research. In the last decade, concerns regarding the advanteges of a social responsible behaviour have increased not only for large...

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The Role of SME Suppliers in Implementing Sustainability

Meqdadi, Osama; Johnsen, Thomas; Johnsen, Rhona - HAL - 2012

This paper explores sustainability in supply network from a small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) perspective. The … approaches. Two pilot case studies have been conducted in France exploring how large manufacturing companies engage SME suppliers … in sustainability initiatives and the barriers and drivers for SME suppliers in becoming involved in such intitiatives …

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Improvement of small and medium-sized enterprises thanks to coaching methods

Parmová, Dagmar Škodová - In: Acta Universitatis Bohemiae Meridionales 10 (2007) 1, pp. 11-14

the size level of SME. Coaching instead of consulting can bring a better and quicker improvement in the development …

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Financing Resources for Egyptian Small and Medium Enterprises

Kabbani, Rola Nabil El; Kalhoefer, Christian - Faculty of Management Technology, German University - 2011

Even though small and medium enterprises (SMEs) represent the majority of the Egyptian firms, their value added is relatively low. According to previous research, SMEs face a financing gap that causes undercapitalization and represents an obstacle that hinders SMEs from growth. This paper...

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The price impact of lending relationships

Stein, Ingrid - Deutsche Bundesbank - 2011

This study analyzes the impact of bank relationships on a firm's cost of debt. We focus on relationships with the main bank. We find that a firm's cost of debt decreases with relationship strength, proxied by the share of bank debt provided by the main lender, but rises with relationship length....

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Des dynamiques territorialisées novatrices : le cas des PME agro-alimentaires

Fourcade, Colette - In: Revue d'économie régionale et urbaine juin (2008) 2, pp. 193-210

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the capacity of small enterprises working in agricultural and agro-food productions to frame local networks. These patterns of innovative collective strategies are likely to induce new types of local dynamics. The research is based on the survey of...

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Banking concentration, information asymmetries and credit rationing: The Argentinean case

Arroyo, Martín R. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

This paper highlights the importance of the information efficiency in the banking sector as a way to ensure his correct operation as financial intermediary and the correct functioning of the economy in general. The problems of information in the banks distort their relation with the financing...

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Perceived financial barriers and the start-up decision: An econometric analysis of gender differences using GEM data

Stephen, Roper; Jonathan M., Scott - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

Although accessing finance is key to the foundation of any business, particular concerns have been expressed about the ability of UK women-owned firms to obtain external finance. In this paper we use an econometric approach to explore the effect of perceptions of financial barriers to start-up...

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THE SME OWNERS’ PERCEPTION ON CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY: AN APPROACH BASED ON COGNITIVE MAPPING

Aegerter, Delphine - In: Revista Tinerilor Economisti (The Young Economists Journal) 1 (2007) 7, pp. 112-121

having an impact on the firm’s perennial life. In spite of the large diffusion of the CSR topic and the importance of SME in … national markets, the main researches focus on large companies. SME deserves its own tools. With the more direct impact of the … manager decision, SME constitutes a privileged field of research for a cognitive approach of the corporate responsibility …

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