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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Small and medium sized enterprise (SME)"”.
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Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise (SME) Participation in Public Procurement
Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) dominate the Single Market contributing to local employment generation and innovative supplies and services development. Yet, SMEs are continuously disproportionately underrepresented in public markets. On average EU member states spend approximately 14% of …
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Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) adoption in a hybrid service and manufacturing Small and Medium-sized Enterprise (SME) : an action case study
There is a growing need for understanding business process re-engineering within SMEs such as the service management companies and this calls for more research focusing on Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and implementation. The aim of this study is to highlight the impact of an in-depth business …
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Entrepreneurship policy for entrepreneurs : a cognitive approach to the entrepreneurial environment
… stimulates economic growth, creates jobs, and provides opportunities for independence and self-realization. Over the last 10 years, policy makers around the globe have been actively pursuing the elusive goal of an entrepreneurial economy. Often building on existing Small and Medium-Sized …
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Towards an Augmented Reality-based Cyber-Physical Production System Planner
Investment in automation by small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) manufacturers in the United States has lagged behind their larger counterparts for decades, despite comprising a majority of the nation’s manufacturing industry. The cyber-physical production systems (CPPSs) introduced by Industry …
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Entrepreneurship in Russia: patterns and problems of its development in the post-Soviet period
The development of a robust small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) sector has been widely seen as important to Russia’s socio-economic transformation. This has been clear from state policies and rhetoric that claim to support the development of entrepreneurship and publicly advocate its …
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ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT IN DEVON AND CORNWALL'S SMALL AND MEDIUM-SIZED ENTERPRISE SECTOR
… one of the most important strategic, economic and social concerns facing global society today. Although literature on environmental management theory and sustainable development philosophy has increased apace throughout the 1980s and 1990s, very few of these writings have documented the case of …
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Innovation capability and firm performance heterogeneity in the small and medium sided enterprise sector
… capability to innovate so as to help understand the innovation of small medium sized enterprise (SME) as a contributor to firm productivity. In this study, I propose and estimate a structural model containing the link between innovative activities and firm performance measured by labor …
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What Makes Small Business Develop in U.S. and China? ——An Exploratory Comparative Analysis of Georgia, US and Guangxi, China
As the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) points out, small business is critical to U.S. economic recovery and strength, to building America's future, and to helping the U.S. compete in today's global marketplace. In 2007, U.S. small business constituted 99.7 percent of all businesses, about …
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How do small and medium-sized enterprises (Smes) within the UK prepare for and manage the consequences of a cyber-attack? A study on cyber resilience
Cyber resilience is essential for Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (SME), those with fewer than 250 employees, to protect themselves against cyber-attacks and to ensure their continued operation. This research focusses on how United Kingdom (UK) based SMEs prepare for and manage the consequences …