The role of human resource practices (HRP) at its significance in small and medium enterprises (SME) become an emerging topic, especially in developing countries. This study aims to gauge the level of HR practice being exercise in SME. Quantitative approach has been followed and data was...

Case Objective: Small and Medium enterprises (SMEs) play a crucial role in India‘s economic growth. SMEs operate in a competitive environment and therefore, it is important to ensure that their business is managed more efficiently and effectively. It is believed that performance management...

This paper examines the determining factors in the success of the small and medium-sized business. The emphasis of the investigation has been in the role played by intangible assets in the establishment and maintenance of a competitive advantage. In order to analyze in detail the characteristics...

Purpose: The purpose of the Study was to establish the relationship between intellectual capital and performance of small and medium manufacturing enterprises in Kenya. Design/methodology/approach: The study adopted positivist philosophy. The research designs were descriptive survey as well as...

This article explores how the boards of small firms actually undertake to perform strategic tasks. Board strategic involvement has seldom been investigated in the context of small firms. We seek to make a contribution by investigating antecedents of board strategic involvement. The antecedents...

We examine firm growth in the German SME-sector using a sample of companies obtained by a survey of two well known German SME networks - Arbeitsgemeinschaft selbstandiger Unternehmer (ASU) and Bundesverband Junger Unternehmer (BJU). On the basis of the law of proportionate growth (Gibrat's Law),...

Purpose: This study sought to establish the effect of strategic resources on performance of small and medium manufacturing enterprises. Specifically, the study sought to identify how financial resources, human resources, physical resources and intellectual capital affect performance of small and...

Purpose: The purpose of the Study was to establish the relationship between intellectual capital and performance of small and medium manufacturing enterprises in Kenya. Design/methodology/approach: The study adopted positivist philosophy. The research designs were descriptive survey as well as...

Objective: The article aims to systematise the literature on human capital for the internationalisation of SMEs. Research Design & Methods: The research adopts the quantitative and qualitative analysis of scientific papers. Quantitatively, the study is grounded on the classification approach of...

Managing performance is quite easy, but sustaining that performance is the real challenge for organizations in the 21st century. Hence, the research’s main objective is to examine the impact of high-performance work system on sustainable organizational success in small and medium business...