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Knowledge Management as a Strategic Tool to Foster Innovativeness of SMEs

Zhou, Zhou, H.; Uhlaner, Uhlaner, L.M. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2009

medium sized enterprises (SMEs). Our empricial results indicate that external acquisition practices play a key role in … fostering SMEs’ innovativeness while internal sharing practices do not appear to have a significant influence. External … opportunities which in turn may lead to new or improved products or processes. We suggest that owners/entrepreneurs of SMEs and …

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Knowledge Management as a Strategic Tool to Foster Innovativeness of SMEs

Zhou, H.; Uhlaner, L.M. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), ERIM … - 2009

medium sized enterprises (SMEs). Our empricial results indicate that external acquisition practices play a key role in … opportunities which in turn may lead to new or improved products or processes. We suggest that owners/entrepreneurs of SMEs and …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005042246

Knowledge management, e-business adoption, and succession of international trading

Tangkittipaporn, Jiraporn - In: International Journal of Sustainable Economy 5 (2013) 2, pp. 193-206

This study investigated factors that impacted the succession of international trading. By testing the hypotheses on a sample of 169 foreign-owned and Thai owned exporting firms, the results revealed that, among the three components of knowledge management, only knowledge acquisition had a...

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Knowledge Acquisitions in Slovenian Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises

Omerzel, Doris Gomezelj - In: Management 6 (2011) 4, pp. 381-398

The aim of the article is to illustrate the methods of acquiring knowledge in enterprises. Knowledge will be defined in terms of individuals and of the organization. Different authors define knowledge in different ways and they also recommend various methods for the effective acquisition of...

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The Relationship between Knowledge Management Practices and Technological Innovation: A Conceptual Framework

Ng, Yin-Kuan; Lee, Voon-Hsien; Foo, Alex Tun-Lee; Gan, … - In: International Journal of Management, Knowledge and Learning 1 (2012) 1, pp. 71-89

This research paper aims to establish a conceptual framework that links the different dimensions of knowledge management, namely knowledge acquisition, knowledge dissemination and knowledge application, with innovation performance, particularly focusing on technological innovation (i. e. product...

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Building Capability through Cognitive Apprenticeship: The Singapore Armed Forces Competency-Based Learning Project

Quek, Pek Noi - In: Journal of Information & Knowledge Management (JIKM) 05 (2006) 03, pp. 173-182

The Singapore Armed Forces (SAF) Competency-Based Learning (CBL) Project is a cognitive apprenticeship designed by the Learning Development Project Office in SAFTI Military Institute, Singapore to assist SAF in establishing long-term indigenous capability in the CBL methodology to facilitate...

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Economic intelligence and knowledge management: two complementary facets of the same issue

Said, Antoine; Bretones, Daniel - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2009

This paper aims at analysing the differences between two major research fields: Economic intelligence and knowledge management. A framework showing the complementarities between those two fields is set up. After a literature review on those two fields we explain that economic intelligence and...

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Coordinates of Policy Concerning SMEs Development in Romania

NICOLESCU, Ovidiu; NICOLESCU, Ciprian - In: REVISTA DE MANAGEMENT COMPARAT INTERNATIONAL/REVIEW OF … 11 (2010) 1, pp. 5-20

Approach of SMEs development in Romania is based on two category of premises: 7 internal premises, which refers on the … the paper contains the three coordinates of SMEs development in Romania: previsions concerning performances and business … in Romania. Elements incorporated by this material are aiming to contribute to the take of the SMEs sector and implicitly …

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The Global Economic Crisis. Challenges for SMEs in Romania

HODOROGEL, Roxana Gabriela - In: Theoretical and Applied Economics XVIII(2011) (2011) 4(557), pp. 129-140

in this part of Europe largely depends on a pickup in the activity of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), which … were seriously affected by the credit crunch the economic crisis entailed. The adverse impact on most SMEs causes a decline …

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ASPECTS OF SMALL BUSINESS ACT, THE EUROPEAN SMES POLICY INITIATIVE

Assist. Silvia – Ştefania Mihalache - In: Annals of University of Craiova - Economic Sciences Series 3 (2010) 38, pp. 10-10

which aims to promote a SMEs-friendly environment. Having in mind that most jobs in the EU are provided by SMEs, companies … bureaucratic hurdles and obstacles, we may state that the European SMEs deserve to be better assisted to fully unlock their …

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