Lean strategy, aimed at optimizing resources, minimizing energy usage, and achieving zero waste in the production process, has been increasingly embraced to reduce systemwide costs in manufacturing. However, practitioners in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) often lack the necessary...

Existenzgründung, Unternehmensgründung, Entrepreneurship - die aus diesem Themenspektrum erwachsenden Fragen werden für Theorie und Praxis immer bedeutsamer. Namhafte Experten aus Wissenschaft und Praxis beleuchten in diesem Buch das Phänomen Existenzgründung aus unterschiedlichen...

"The law plays an ambiguous role in running business. While legal tools can be used to tame uncertainties, for example, by concluding contracts to safeguard enforcement of future claims, they can also generate uncertainty. These secondary uncertainties like ones stemming from vague rights and...

"As the 'backbone of the economy', small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are key players in the dynamics of local, regional, and global markets and are often obliged to provide timely responses to the increasingly fierce cross-border competition. However, SMEs internationalisation has...