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Territorial Competitiveness in Romania – The Role of Economic Clusters

Pauna, Carmen Beatrice; Chilian, Nona Mihaela - 2012

Analyzing the competitive performance of Romanian industry, one may say that Romania has an economy based mainly on the manufacturing industry, characterized by features such as: • high labor intensity, especially in industries such as textiles, knitwear, apparel, leather and footwear; •...

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Financial investment constraints: A panel threshold application to German firm level data

Tarassow, Artur - 2015

This article tests the hypothesis that financial supply-side shifts help to explain the low-investment climate of private firms in Germany. The core contention is that a firm's financial position contributes to its access to external finance on credit markets. Special emphasis is put on small...

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Are Regional Institutional Factors Determinants Of The Capital Structure Of Smes?

Palacin-Sanchez, Mariajosé; Di Pietro, Filippo - 2013

This paper analyses the role that institutional factors play in explaining differences in the capital structure of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) across regions belonging to a single country. Specifically, it studies the effect of the development of the financial sector and of the...

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One approach to the assessment of the financial situation of SME in regions

Vostokov, Evgeny - 2014

The assessment of a financial position of SME has very much importance as for the analysis of current situation in a … full-scale research of SME situations in large regional economy on the basis of traditional statistical methods. Such …

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Social Change and Entrepreneurship in Turkey: A Review of National Development Policies

Sag, Mehmet Akif; Bilsel, Sami Guven - 2014

production area has become common. Therefore, ?small and medium enterprises' (SME) are started to be seen as enterprises that can … country creates its own SME. Accordingly, this subject should be considered in terms of social culture since the SME …-society relation involves originality for every society. Existing SME literature deals with SMEs independently from cultural structures …

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SME's cluster identification in Russia

Barinova, Vera; Zemtsov, Stepan - 2015

as areas of geographical concentration of small and medium businesses (SME). We also wanted to check whether the existing …

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Determinants of fast-growing SMEs' concentration in the Russian regions

Barinova, Vera; Zemtsov, Stepan; Sorokina, Alla - 2015

SMEs play an important role in the development of regional innovative systems because of their potential to accept new technologies and show fast growing rates. There is an interdependence between emergence of fast growing SMEs (?gazelles?) and innovative development of regions. High level of...

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Assessing Mandated Credit Programs: Case Study of the Magna Carta in the Philippines

Khor, Niny; Jacildo, Ryan; Tacneng, Ruth - 2015

We examine the effects of a mandated credit program to small and medium enterprises in the Philippines (Magna Carta Law) using a panel dataset compiled from official data published by the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas. The final sample of 109 financial institutions represented over 90% of total...

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Rainwater harvesting in the UK: a strategic framework to enable transition from novel to mainstream

Ward, Sarah - 2010

The approach to water management worldwide is currently in transition, with a shift evident from purely centralised infrastructure to greater consideration of decentralised technologies, such as rainwater harvesting (RWH). Initiated by recognition of drivers including increasing water demand and...

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ICT industry and resources based analysis of maintenance SME in the Central Europe

Tesar, S.; Havlicek, Z.; Ocenasek, V. - 2010

presents a resource based analysis of family run SME, operating in IT parts and consumables market. In order to understand this … strategy of the SME. The value chain analysis helps to name the main organization’s capabilities and evaluates them in terms of … resources. The outcome of this audit shows that most of SME resources are of an intangible nature. Contrary to the higher …

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