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ICT industry and resources based analysis of maintenance SME in the Central Europe

Tesar, S.; Havlicek, Z.; Ocenasek, V. - 2010

presents a resource based analysis of family run SME, operating in IT parts and consumables market. In order to understand this … strategy of the SME. The value chain analysis helps to name the main organization’s capabilities and evaluates them in terms of … resources. The outcome of this audit shows that most of SME resources are of an intangible nature. Contrary to the higher …

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Taiwan's textile and clothing SME response to globalization

Chen, J.; Parker, D. - 2007

A mixed-method research approach underpinned exploration of antecedents of strategies adopted by Taiwanese small mediumsized enterprises in the clothing and textiles industry to counter the negative economic effect of globalisation and the increasing competitive threat of lower-cost Chinese...

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Définition et dénombrement statistique de la population des PME dans l'Union Européenne

Mertins, Verena; Sölter, Anja - 2008

This study by order of the Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ) provides an overview of the SME definition … and the system of SME statistics in the European Union. The European SME definition is particularly examined with respect … the institutional design of the European SME statistics and the practical problems of collecting data at the national …

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Bank Lines of Credit in Liquidity Management - The Impact of Recall Risk for German SMEs

Schertler, Andrea; Pfingsten, Andreas; Hubensack, Carsten - 2010

We use a unique sample of self-employed and corporate clients provided by a universal bank in Germany to investigate how recall risk of recallable bank lines of credit impact cash holdings and line usage. While the bank does not require an upfront fee for providing a line of credit, which may...

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Firm heterogeneity, credit constraints, and endogenous growth

Klarl, Torben; Maußner, Alfred - 2010

This paper is concerned with the role of firm heterogeneity under credit constraints for economic growth. We focus on firm size, innovativeness and credit constraints in a semi-endogenous growth model reflecting recent empirical findings on firm heterogeneity. It allows for an explicit solution...

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Entrepreneurship, development, and the spatial context: Retrospect and prospect

Nijkamp, Peter - 2009

Entrepreneurship has been a topical issue in the business administration literature, but in the past decade a wave of interest can be observed on the role of entrepreneurship in the economic growth literature. This paper aims to highlight the various contributions to the entrepreneurship...

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Relationship lending - empirical evidence for Germany

Memmel, Christoph; Schmieder, Christian; Stein, Ingrid - 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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Effectiveness of Public R&D Subsidies in East Germany – Is it a Matter of Firm Size?

Reinkowski, Janina; Alecke, Björn; Mitze, Timo; … - 2010

sized enterprises (SME), we put a special focus on the effectiveness of the R&D subsidies for this latter subgroup. Here no … Innovationssystem insbesondere durch kleine und mittlere Unternehmen (KMU) getrieben wird, liegt ein besonderer Fokus der Analyse auf … sind. Unsere Matching-Ergebnisse zeigen, dass die Effektivität öffentlicher F&E-Programme auch für die Gruppe der KMU gilt …

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SMEs in Argentina: Who are the exporters

Ottaviano, Gianmarco I. P.; Martincus, Christian Volpe - 2009

There exists a growing body of literature which looks at export decisions made by firms. Most studies focus on developed countries and do not explore whether different behavioral patterns prevail over the firm size distribution. This paper aims at filling this gap in the literature by analyzing...

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The People's Republic of China's small and medium enterprise development strategies in the context of a national innovation system

Yang, Tracy; Lim, Jamus Jerome; Kanamori, Toshiki - 2006

engine toward sustained growth. This paper argues that certain industries-in particular, the small and medium enterprise (SME … issues such as innovation, R&D, and strategic clustering may influence the SME sector, and outlines both internal as well as …

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