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Entrepreneurial Orientation and Small Business Performance : The Role of Emergent Strategy
Kelly, Louise - 2014
The research on entrepreneurial orientation (EO) is undecided as to whether a specific EO improves firm performance. We considered EO in a different light by examining the role of emergent strategy. By considering entrepreneurial orientation as it is effected by emergent strategy, we found a...
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Micro, Small and Medium-Sized Businesses in Jalisco : Their Evolution, and Strategic Challenges
Fong Reynoso, Carlos - 2014
The business structure in Jalisco, Mexico is primarily composed of micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Thus, it is fundamentally necessary to understand the dynamics, evolution and above all, the strategic challenges of this sector in order to understand the state's economic...
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How do emerging market SMEs utilize resources in the face of environmental uncertainty?
Temouri, Yama; Shen, Kathy; Pereira, Vijay; Xie, Xuanli - In: Business research quarterly : BRQ 25 (2022) 3, pp. 212-223
Using the resource-based view of the firm, this article examines how different resources are used by small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in response to environmental uncertainty in an emerging market context. A survey was conducted involving 212 owners, CEOs, or managing directors of SMEs...
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The Strategic Management Competence of Small and Medium-Sized Growth Firms
Kohtamäki, Marko - 2013
This study focuses on the firm's strategy process and especially on the firm's strategic management competence …. Strategic management competence is defined as a firm's ability to involve different actors in the strategy process … seem to suggest that while managerial experience is not important for strategic management competence, the CEO …
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Strategic resources, a driver of performance in small and medium manufacturing enterprises in Kenya
Murimi, Muturi Moses; Ombaka, Beatrice Elesani; … - In: International journal of business and economic sciences … 14 (2021) 2, pp. 43-57
that Management of manufacturing SMEs should ensure that there are enough financial resources to meet their daily …
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Influence of strategic physical resources on performance of small and medium manufacturing enterprises in Kenya
Murimi, Muturi Moses; Ombaka, Beatrice; Muchiri, Joseph - In: International journal of business and economic sciences … 12 (2019) 1, pp. 20-27
comprised of the management staff of the 350 small and medium manufacturing enterprises registered by the Kenya Association of … that the management of SMEs should ensure that they invest significantly in these resources so as to maximise on the …
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Environmental and Managerial Antecedents of Strategic Posture and Performance of Small Firms : An Empirical Analysis
Roxas, Banjo - 2009
A number of theories postulate the influence of industry factors and various forms of organizational capital on the strategies and performance of small firms. This study is an empirical test of such assertion by examining how industry and firm-related factors as well as managerial attributes...
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Staying Local and Competitive : Northern SMEs’ Construals of Community and Business Strategies
Gestsson, Helgi; Hietanen, Lenita; Johansen, Svein; … - 2015
Locally owned, northern SMEs often find themselves working out of and in small communities in sparsely populated regions. Using a constructive research design and semi-structured interviews with SMEs from Northern Finland, Norway and Iceland this study highlights the relationship between the...
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Strategic Human Resources Management in Culinary Business : A Study in Small and Medium-Sized Culinary Enterprises in Yogyakarta
Faisal, Akbar - 2016
culinary business of SME apply defender business strategy and analyzer human resources strategy. For alignment strategy, most …
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Strategies, Uncertainty and Performance of Small Business Startups
Gelderen, Marco van; Frese, Michael; Thurik, Roy - 2012
Personal strategies of owners/founders of small business startups are related to performance and to environmental uncertainty. This is done using a longitudinal data set of some 50 Dutch startups. The results suggest a dynamic process between strategy and performance.A discrimination is made...
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