small-sized manufacturing enterprises
Determinants and impediments in the internationalisation process of small and medium-sized manufacturing enterprises in Ethiopia
... Micro, Small and Medium Enterprise (MSME) sector, GoE intends to facilitate development of industrial clusters, which would connect firms in a particular field with links to related institutions such as financial ...
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The effect of market and learning orientations on organizational performance of manufacturing small and medium sized enterprises in Pakistan
... Small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) play an important role in strengthening the economy of developed and developing countries. The performance of SMEs depends on various factors. Among those ...
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Examining the factors affecting U.K. manufacturing small and medium sized enterprises’ corporate sustainability behaviour
... UK manufacturing small and medium sized enterprises ...from manufacturing companies in the South-East region of the UK and a focus group conducted with an additional twelve SME ...
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Performance of export-oriented small and medium-sized manufacturing enterprises in Viet Nam
... What factors determine why some SMMEs are involved in export activities and others are not? The descriptive analysis in chapter I shows that the share of export-oriented SMMEs has not changed much in relative terms ...
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Green supply chain management in manufacturing small and medium-sized enterprises: Perspectives from Chang Chiang Delta
... among manufacturing SMEs in the Chang Chiang River Delta region of ...well-developed manufacturing industry, which sources, manufactures, packages and transports products to other nations and regions ...of ...
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Logistics outsourcing and performance of manufacturing small and medium-sized enterprises in Nairobi
... the manufacturing sector and employ over 80% of the workforce in this sector (Kenya National Bureau of Statistics ...on small and medium-sized ...
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Strategy dynamics in small to medium-sized enterprises : Evidence from UK manufacturing SMEs
... This paper demonstrated that the dynamics of SME (small to medium-sized enterprise) strategy have both emergent and planned dimensions. SME managers execute the strategy process mainly from an informal ...
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Open Journal Systems
... while small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) have also been seriously hit, and the negative impacts on export-oriented enterprises cannot be underestimated as ...these enterprises to ...
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Workplace innovation and new product development in Vietnamese manufacturing small and medium-sized enterprises
... EFA aims to reduce a large number of measurement items to a smaller number of factors. The goal of this technique is to provide an output of reliable and interpretable factors. The correlations between variables are ...
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Skills Mismatch in Small-sized Enterprises in Malaysia
... among the new generation human capital so that they would have the courage to face the competitive global market. Furthermore, quality human capital should master important skills such as personal attributes, ...
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Supply management capabilities and operations performance of UK manufacturing small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs)
... Dependable suppliers are indispensable in all advanced supply management practices such as JIT, lean and agile supply systems. Agile supply is a supply management practice that speeds up the time to market and ...
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Historical Financing of Small- and Medium-Sized Enterprises
... The governments of the North Atlantic Core did not play a significant role in the development of these local capital markets. Rather, for the most part they left it to private individuals and firms to solve the financing ...
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Manufacturing performance measurement tool for small and medium-sized enterprises
... global manufacturing are forcing manufacturing organizations to re-examine and modify their competitive ...strategies. Small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) are not exempted from ...
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Technology Integration and Training in Small and Medium-Sized Manufacturing Enterprises
... innovations (Dong, Bartol, Zhang, & Li, 2017; Hamidianpour, Esmaeilpour, & Zarci, 2016). One of the more recent advances in manufacturing organizations has centered on new technologies and their ...
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Revealing engineering management contribution (EMC) to outputs of manufacturing SMEs: a literature review
... Medium Sized Manufacturing Enterprises (SMEs) play a significant role in achieving the targets of ...of enterprises depending on the country (OECD, ...These Small and Medium ...
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Factors affecting the technical inefficiency of Thai manufacturing and exporting small and medium sized enterprises: A stochastic frontier analysis (SFA)
... Thai manufacturing and exporting SMEs, analyze their returns to scale and key factors impacting on their technical ...Thai manufacturing SMEs indicates that their average technical efficiency is ...
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NETWORK DIMENSIONS AND FIRM PERFORMANCE AMONG MANUFACTURING SMES: EVIDENCE FROM KENYA
... The study established that networking dimensions plays an important role in the performance of manufacturing Small and medium Sized enterprises in Kenya. Networking dimensions was ...
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Productivity Growth in Small Enterprises Role of Inputs, Technological Progress and 'Learning By Doing'
... Small Manufacturing Enterprises (SMEs) in an overpopulated developing economy serve the dual role of job-creation and shifting the occupational ...
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Skills issues for small and medium sized enterprises
... qualifications: 65% of firms with 500+ employees offer NVQs/SVQs, but only 37% in the 25-49 size band do so. Table 4 summarises some of the key results from SNIB 1998 in relation to the size of the employing ...
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The Widening Financing Gap and Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises in India
... The problem of a mismatch between the supply of funds (loans) and the demand for funds (loans) leads to the notion of “financial gaps” (Industry Canada, 2002), which can be defined as an imperfection (of geography, laws, ...
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