This paper aims to intensively explore the factors that affect competitiveness for small and medium enterprises (SMEs) and how SMEs can improve their competitiveness in the context of an emerging economy like Vietnam. This study combined qualitative and quantitative methods and employed...

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...

The import competition literature suggests that Chinese industrial policies and technological trends have altered the nature of competition with China so that it does not take place on a level playing field anymore. Empirical evidence about firms' reactions in developed economies to competition...

Mit seiner Untersuchung über mittelständische Weltmarktführer setzte Hermann Simon Zeichen. Der Begriff 'Hidden Champions' wurde ein Qualitätsmerkmal. Nun hat Hermann Simon die Hidden Champions des 21. Jahrhunderts ausfindig gemacht. Was machen diese Firmen anders?