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The impact of finance on the performance of Thai manufacturing small and medium-sized enterprises

Amornkitvikai, Yot; Harvie, Charles - 2016

This study sheds light on small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) financing and its performance in Thailand. It … elaborates on the key sources of finance existing for Thai manufacturing SMEs and their importance for SME performance as … enhancing SME access to external finance. Our results confirm that retained earnings are crucial to increase SME technical …

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Does internal and external research and development affect innovation of small and medium-sized enterprises? Evidence from India and Pakistan

Ur Rehman, Naqeeb - 2016

This study investigates the impact of internal and external research and development (R&D) on the innovation performance of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in India and Pakistan. Micro-level data was obtained for 3,492 Indian and 696 Pakistani SMEs from the World Bank's Enterprise...

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Small firms, human capital, and productivity in Asia

Vandenberg, Paul; Trinh, Long Q. - 2016

The paper analyzes the link between human capital and firm-level productivity in five Asian countries. It draws on a dataset of over 4,000 enterprises and considers both the prior educational attainment of workers and in-service training programs of enterprises. Differences between small,...

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Commercial bank innovations in small and medium-sized enterprise finance: Global models and implications for Thailand

Subhanij, Tientip - 2016

enterprises and the constraints to SME financing remain the main topic of policy discussion today. Against this background, the … SME financing. This will also ensure that lending to small-business clients is not a burden to the government and is self …

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Gender matters: Private sector training in Vietnamese SMEs

Bjerge, Benedikte; Torm, Nina; Trifkovic, Neda - 2016

In many developing countries the skill base is a cause of concern with respect to international competition. Firm-provided training is generally seen as an important tool for bridging the skills gap between labour force and private sector demand. Yet little is known about how successful such...

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An empirical approach to marketing innovation in small and medium retailers: An application to the Spanish sector

Medrano, Natalia; Olarte-Pascual, Cristina - In: Contemporary Economics 10 (2016) 3, pp. 205-216

Although numerous studies explore innovation, most of them focus on technological innovations. It is currently difficult to focus exclusively on products and processes when discussing innovation because new ideas can transform any part of an organization's value chain. Indeed, marketing...

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The missing middle: Growing and strengthening Viet Nam's micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises

Co, Catherine Yap - 2017

We study the exporting and subcontracting decisions, mark-ups, market concentration, and growth of a panel of Vietnamese private micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises. Our main findings are as follows. First, we find that among subcontractors, subcontracting is a supplementary rather than...

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The board structure and firm performance in SMEs: Evidence from Spain

Arosa, Blanca; Iturralde, Txomin; Maseda, Amaia - In: Investigaciones Europeas de Dirección y Economía de … 19 (2013) 3, pp. 127-135

The aim is to analyse the efficiency of the board of directors as a corporate governance mechanism. For this purpose, we examine the effect of board composition, size, activity, leadership structure and CEO tenure on firm performance. To test our hypothesis we use a sample of 307 Spanish SMEs,...

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The Role of the Government in Entrepreneurship Development: Evidence from Bosnia and Herzegovina

Dzafic, Zijad; Babajic, Amra - In: Economic Review: Journal of Economics and Business 14 (2016) 1, pp. 68-79

SME sector in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) as a transition country may play an important role in the process of economic …) attitudes of entrepreneurs in the private sector towards the role of government in SME development through provision of … government sector towards the role of government in SME development through the provision of assistance to SMEs in BiH. The paper …

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Italy must foster high growth industries

Gebauer, Stefan; Kritikos, Alexander S.; Kriwoluzky, … - In: DIW Weekly Report 9 (2019) 7/9, pp. 65-74

Italy has yet to recover from the economic consequences of the financial and sovereign debt crisis that began more than a decade ago. In addition to losing 1.4 million jobs across the manufacturing and construction sectors, new industries driving growth across the EU, such as knowledge-intensive...

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