responsibilities. The advocacy model and the clearing-house model are, on the other hand, particularly relevant to countries where SMEs … to the needs of SMEs. …

-sized enterprises (SMEs). It uses data for 30 countries, drawn from the European Company Survey, the OECD Programme for International … Assessment of Adult Competencies and the Community Innovation Survey. It contrasts SMEs adopting a “learning organisation” or … “discretionary learning” form of workplace organisation with SMEs adopting more hierarchical organisational forms. Learning …

.g. between two SMEs or two large companies, is likely to be higher, as compared to heterogeneous partnerships, e.g. an SME and a …

importance of the tertiary sector in developed economies. SMEs represent a significant element of each market economy; they are …

to promote entrepreneurship and support SMEs. Then, applying cluster analysis techniques to a group of proxy variables …