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Limited access of small enterprises to reliable and well-prepared information about their condition is mentioned as one of the main barriers to small business development. One of the key types of information used in management is financial information. It concerns the resources and financial...
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This empirical survey is based on a questionnaire which was distributed to 6,000 medium-sized German companies with international activities. The analyses included responses from a total of 533 enterprises. The areas examined include the importance of globalization, the motives for and the...
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This paper attempts to identify and evaluate certain critical pitfalls in the planning stage of ERP adoption in Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) and develop into a model for evaluating the risk of failure. In the planning stage a set of risks have been identified based on past research work...
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This research paper addresses the adoption of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and examine their effect on organizational performance and Return-on-Investment (ROI) in Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs). In this two-part paper, the first part identifies and measures tangible and intangible...
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This empirical study attempts to investigate the effect of organizational learning on innovation as well as the impact of innovation on company performance. Based on the literature review, two hypotheses are proposed to guide the study: the positive impact of organizational learning on...
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In-depth personal interviews are conducted with nine Chinese entrepreneurs. They are located in three different geographical regions from coastal to interior. Their businesses span eight sectors from clothing to industrial automation. This article focuses on their motivations to start new...
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enablers in day-to-day operations and to overall success of SMEs; 2) to describe SME competitiveness in terms of … product quality alongside opportunity-seeking entrepreneurial mindset are top enablers to SME success, hostile business … competitiveness. This suggests that although firm and entrepreneur characteristics affect firm productivity, the business environment …
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success or failure of firms. Productivity of written batik has declined in the past 5 years. From recent BPS data, processed …
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success in alliances between SMEs may contribute to a better understanding of the issue and provide practical solutions. Hence … attempted to promote a framework providing a measurement instrument for assessing the success of KM initiatives in SMEs engaged …
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Spanish Abstract: La presente investigación es de tipo descriptivo, en el cual se realizó un estudio acerca de la percepción que tienen los administradores y/ o dirigentes de las pequeñas empresas constructoras ubicadas en Puebla México acerca de la innovación. A fin de caracterizar la...
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