[PDF] Top 20 Creating resilient SMEs : why one size might not fit all

... that SMEs may share common characteristics, such as resource scarcity, which set them apart from larger organisations (Penrose, 1959; Wynarczyk et ...for SMEs, and in relation to resilience, this is a ... See full document

... Òone size doesn«t fits allÓ when it comes to entrepreneurship ...the one hand, entrepreneurship policy is a necessary but not sufficient condition to enhance regional entrepreneurial ecosystems, and, on the ... See full document

... when one size clearly does not fit all? Should it base its decisions on the area-wide averages of inflation and unemployment, or should it attempt to minimise the (weighted) average of ... See full document

... more resilient in times of ...this might reduce systemic diver- sity and therefore increase systemic ...that one size might not fit ... See full document

... As mentioned above the ease of access to printed materials has been a perceived concern of the research team and many of the sentiments expressed by these and other students revolve around the convenience of (or lack of) ... See full document

... though one that should not be particularly surprising due to the balance of gender in the workplace; as well as an increased emphasis on gender equality at a societal level and the shift in acceptance toward ... See full document

... across SMEs include firm age, its ownership structure, the past, present and expected growth rates and profitability (Moritz et ...than one owner typically profit from a wider range of financing ... See full document

... in one library, once the volunteers had been informed that they were accepted by the council as a group to manage the library, they had three months to prepare a business plan to cover the next three ... See full document

... In contrast to other institutional series, infants at our cen- ter undergoing Norwood operation at an earlier age have worse outcomes. Adoption of published practice patterns could lead to different local outcomes ... See full document

... We conducted a retrospective analysis in patients enrolled in a cohort of septic shock, the VASST. The VASST is a multicenter, randomized, double-blind, controlled trial evaluating the efficacy of vasopressin versus ... See full document

... know why, and he shrugged his shoulders and said “I think it’s because of the president ...past, why think about it, and let’s move on.” I tried to ask why it isn’t taught or talked about in an ... See full document

... values. One has to note that the use of the word ‘early’ in EGDT refers to the time from the patient’s admission to the institution of goal-directed therapy and does not necessarily mean that the sepsis itself is ... See full document

... Compared to this traditional approach of obtaining early-warning thresholds, the conditional moments approach proceeds in two steps. First, an interval over which the optimal threshold is searched is derived. Second, ... See full document

... The unitary model is also brought into question by the stalemate in the accession process. Some current members have no appetite for enlarging the EU to countries where the economic and institutional level is such that ... See full document

... The purpose of this paper is to use the specific exploration of the ‘robust’ determinants of CABs to more broadly demonstrate that researchers ought to take seriously the issues of model uncertainty and data poolability ... See full document

... E-business success is also largely dependent on the level of usage by others. The term ‘network externality’ applies to those information technologies which rely on corresponding usage by others to be effective, or when ... See full document

... Business cycle synchronisation could also result from greater real and financial inte- gration. Theoretically, the expected signs of the associated regression coefficients remain ambiguous. Starting with trade ... See full document

... Recent years have seen the revolution of deep neu- ral networks and the subsequent rise of represen- tation learning based on network-internal activa- tions. Such representations have been shown use- ful when addressing ... See full document

... panel size needed to cover a majority of patients at a relatively high ...between size of mutational panel and overall coverage of the dataset for four different representative ...panel size of 1000 ... See full document

... of all Australians” and that “flexible, tailored support that targets those experiencing disadvantage” is needed (Commonwealth of Australia, 2009, ...in all educational set- tings to address and reverse ... See full document