medium-sized manufacturing firms
INFLUENCE OF COMPETITIVE STRATEGIES ON GROWTH OF MEDIUM-SIZED MANUFACTURING FIRMS IN NAKURU TOWN, KENYA
... of medium-sized manufacturing firms in Nakuru town, ...of medium-sized manufacturing ...with medium- sized manufacturing firms in Nakuru ...
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Putting environmental technologies into the mainstream : adoption of environmental technologies by medium-sized manufacturing firms in Brazil
... The term “environmental technology” still has a very broad definition. Several studies (Vachon and Klassen, 2007; Kuehr, 2007) have mentioned this term and tried to define it; even so, there is still little clarity, and ...
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The unique Chinese innovation pathways: lessons from Chinese small and medium sized manufacturing firms
... 16 two hours, they were recorded and transcribed. Field notes were also taken as a backup in the event of equipment failure. Respondents were asked questions on the key phrases of innovation management and identification ...
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Incidence of Marketing Activities in Medium-Sized Manufacturing Firms in Indonesia: Comparing Export Intenders and Non-Export Intenders
... by firms currently servicing domestic market ...those firms that are thinking of exporting will exhibit different emphasis on certain marketing activities as compared to those that do not aspire to venture ...
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Patterns of post acquisition integration in technological firms : creating value by integration in high tech medium sized manufacturing firms
... Over time, managerial motivations for acquisitions have included horizontal and vertical integration, market power gains, geographic expansion, efficiency gains, empire building, resource sharing, and diversification ...
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INVESTIGATION OF THE ADOPTION OF STRATEGIC PLANNING BY SMALL AND MEDIUM SIZED MANUFACTURING FIRMS IN KENYA
... Research studies have been done on the relationship between strategic planning and performance in different organizations across the world. In the USA, study findings have showed that strategic planning in small and ...
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Linking Competencies with Strategies: The Case of Small and Medium- Sized Exporting Firms in Kenya
... to medium-sized enterprises, and to determine if relationships existed between the managers’ ratings of the importance of competencies and the firms’ competitive ...60 firms from a population ...
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NETWORK DIMENSIONS AND FIRM PERFORMANCE AMONG MANUFACTURING SMES: EVIDENCE FROM KENYA
... that firms growth is independent of network range but predicted by ...and Medium-Sized Enterprises: An empirical study of three major cities in China” examined 227 firms in three economic ...
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Review of Absorptive Capacity in Small and Medium Sized Construction Firms in Nigeria
... and medium sized firms have been of increasing interest for academics and policy makers in recent years since their role in both developed and developing economies has been established as being major ...
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Impact of virtualization process on the competitiveness of small and medium sized firms
... In the case of asset configuration there are major limits at the second level of virtual- ization, where it is necessary to ensure adequate coordination of interdependent but dispersed operations and manufacturing ...
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Research Activities in Internationalized Medium Sized Firms: A Productive Centricity
... a manufacturing plant utilizes its existing knowledge through knowledge management practices determines this knowledge’s utility in ...on firms’ financial performance (Chen et ...
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Manufacturing performance measurement tool for small and medium-sized enterprises
... According to Ghalayini and Noble (1996), the literature concerning performance measurement has evolved through two phases. The first phase started in the late 1880s which is characterized by its cost accounting ...
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The extent that manufacturing small and medium sized firms apply value based pricing for their products
... CsBP is one of the oldest pricing strategies. CsBP is the pricing policy which is most used overall by organizations and for the sector of manufacturing firms it is not always the pricing strategy which is ...
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Does the Firm Size Matter? An Empirical Enquiry into the Performance of Indian Manufacturing Firms
... on medium and large sized Indian manufacturing firms finds firm size affecting profitability: positively in Steel and negatively in Electrical & Electronics ...high-tech ...
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Revealing engineering management contribution (EMC) to outputs of manufacturing SMEs: a literature review
... and Medium Size Manufacturing Enterprises ...of manufacturing SMEs having huge implications in manufacturing ...of manufacturing SMEs have not been done so far and therefore, this study ...
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Proposals for a new audit liability regime in Europe
... these firms, but also to fees generated from non audit ...those firms generating low revenues would be inclined to take greater ...a medium sized or large audit firm ( small sized audit ...
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Performance analysis of small and medium sized construction firms in Oyo State, Nigeria
... and medium-scale firms (Ayyagari et ...and Medium Enterprises Development Agency of Nigeria’s (SMEDAN) (2009) definition of a small firm as an enterprise whose total assets, including working capital ...
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The Widening Financing Gap and Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises in India
... by firms in general, and the theoretical recognition that financing gaps can exist for firms, can be traced back to the theory of imperfect information in capital markets (Stiglitz and Weiss ...
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Knowledge within small and medium sized firms: a systematic review of the evidence
... Ward (2004) argues, however, that because codification is relatively unusual in SMEs there is a risk they loose ‘an edge’ over larger firms because these firms have the ability to integrate and exploit ...
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DEPTH OF STRATEGIC MEASUREMENT SYSTEMS AND PERFORMANCE OF MEDIUM SIZED SERVICE FIRMS IN KENYA
... Kenya, medium sized service firms are major contributors of employment and economic ...among medium sized service firms in Kenya has remained a major concern as more than 90% of ...
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