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Japanese management techniques to enhance the governance of Greek small and medium-sized firms

Yacuzzi, Enrique - 2012

adequate SME governance tools at Greek companies might be beneficial. Good governance leads to a better relationship among … management techniques that can be applied to implement and consolidate SME governance have gained diffusion all over the world … examples of applications to enhance governance at Greek SMEs are provided. Tools applied are (1) A new SME governance indicator …

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A primer on governance and performance in small and medium-sized enterprises

Yacuzzi, Enrique - 2005

This paper is a primer on corporate performance, corporate governance, and their interrelationships and measurement systems, with particular focus on Small and Medium- Sized Enterprises (SMEs). This is the first report of a larger on going research project. In the domain of performance...

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Trade in the small- and micro-entreprise sector in Kenya and other countries in Eastern and Southern Africa

Pedersen, Poul Ove - 2005

Since the famous ILO report on the informal sector in Kenya was published in 1972 the smallscale enterprises have been recognised to play an important role in the Kenyan economy as in other African countries. However, although often more than half of all the small enterprises are traders. Most...

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The development of the informal small-enterprise sector in Eastern and Southern Africa: From import substitution to structural adjustment

Pedersen, Poul Ove - 2005

In spite of its growing importance in the African economies, the informal, small-enterprise sector still plays a dubious and little understood role in development. Due to lack of data it is often treated as if it was unrelated to the rest of the economy. However, a number og large surveys...

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Socio-economic transformation in South Africa: Black Economic Empowerment and small, medium and micro enterprises

Sanchez, Diana - 2006

Economic and social transformation of post apartheid South Africa has been a central goal for the democratic regime but broad empowerment of the majority of black South Africans is yet to take place. Small, Medium and Micro Enterprises (SMMEs) have been recognized as central for economic growth...

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The role of ICT for the performance of SMEs in East Africa: Empirical evidence from Kenya and Tanzania

Matambalya, Francis; Wolf, Susanna - 2001

Small and medium enterprises are an important factor in the East African economies especially with respect to employment. The increasing competition through globalisation puts them under considerable pressure. Through the rapid spread of information and communication technologies (ICT) and ever...

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Beschäftigung, Arbeit und Unternehmertum in deutschen Kleinbetrieben: Ergebnisse aus dem IAB-Betriebspanel 2010

Bechmann, Sebastian; Dahms, Vera; Fischer, Agnes; Frei, … - 2011

Die Daten des IAB-Betriebspanels zeigen, dass sich kleinere Betriebe in vielen Punkten von größeren Betrieben unterscheiden. Unterschiede in der Beschäftigten- und Eigentümerstruktur zeigen sich darin, dass kleinere Betriebe seltener wissensintensive Arbeitsplätze anbieten als größere...

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Do Lending Relationships Matter? Evidence from Bank Survey Data in Germany

Lehmann, Erik; Neuberger, Doris - 2000

Strong lending relationships between banks and small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) play a key role in the bank-based financial system of Germany. So far, they have been mainly described by the notion of a housebank and transactional features of long-term bank-customer relationships. In...

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Do Small Firms compete with Large Firms?

Audretsch, D.B.; Prince, Y.M.; Thurik, A.R. - 1998

Despite the pervasive phenomenon of scale economies the majority of firms hasalways been small firms. The emergence of small firms as a means of economic development on both sides of the Atlantic has been one of the major new topics of economic policy since the 1980s. This has drawn renewed...

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Turbulence, Flexibility and Performance of the Long-lived Small Firm

Power, Bernadette; Reid, Gavin C - 2003

This paper focuses on a new concern in the small firm’s literature, namely what makes a small firm stay in business for a long time. It reflects a change in economic policy, away from an emphasis on volume of start-ups to an emphasis on quality of start-ups. The basic hypothesis is that...

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