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Good Leadership is Essential for Any Business, Even for the Small Ones

Bogdány, Eszter; Balogh, Ágnes; Csizmadia, Tibor - ToKnowPress

Small- and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) are one of the most important driving forces of the performance of Hungarian economy. Not only because of their flexibility due to their small size but also their adaptability to the environmental changes. One of the most significant processes during...

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Assessing the Benefits of Social Networks for Organizations - Report on the first phase of the SEA-SoNS Project

Bavel, René van; Martin, Aaron - Institute for Prospective Technological Studies (IPTS), … - 2012

and medium-sized enterprise (SME) adoption of social media technologies – and, in particular, how these technologies can …

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Involuntary Absence from an Organizational Point of View

Kok, Jan M.P. de - Tinbergen Instituut - 1997

Involuntary absence is often seen as an exogenous factor, but firms can take actions to reduceit. In this paper the notion that firms, especially SMEs, are faced with a single decisionwhether or not to undertake these actions is questioned. A firm model on involuntary absencemeasures is...

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Local Entrepreneurship in Vietnam’s Rural Transformation. A Case Study from the Mekong Delta

Benedikter, Simon; Waibel, Gabi; Birtel, Serge; Bui, … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

the form of Small and Medium Enterprises(SME) has emerged as a strong agent for socio‐economic diversification. The Mekong … and SME development in typical peri‐urban and rural settings of the region. Empirical findings on the trajectory of rural … economic growth. Diverging from the government’s vision for boosting SME development in the context of rural industrialization …

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The importance of business support institutions for implementing innovations in SMEs

Korzeniowska, Anna; Misterek, Wojciech - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

The authors demonstrate a problem of innovation support by business support institutions (BSIs) operating in the market. The conducted research and secondary data analyses indicate that despite the availability of broad range of dedicated products, entrepreneurs prefer traditional forms of...

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Concvergence or Divergence? Analysis of Human Resource Practices in SME Turkey

Karartı, Tuncay - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

This study investigates human resource management (HRM) practices in SME sector Turkey vis-à-vis economic system …

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The Use of Guerilla Marketing In SMEs

Yüksekbilgili, Zeki - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

various techniques which keep costs at a minimum, and is often adopted by small companies. In this research, 100 SME’s that … said to be adopted by small companies, this research shows that most of the Turkish SME’s had never used or willing to use …

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東海地域における中小企業の経営力強化のための金融機関と自治体等の取り組みの現状と課題 ―中小企業アンケート調査の概要－

Yamori, Nobuyoshi; Tomimura, Kei; Takaku, Kenya - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

This paper reports a survey result conducted in May 2012. We sent a questionnaire to 3,000 small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), whose main business sector is manufacture and which locate in Aichi Prefecture, one of the largest economic regions in Japan. 803 SMEs answered this...

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Business Owners’ Preferences in Marketing Practices and their Impact on Firm Performance

Ghouri, AM; Saleem, F; Malik, A - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

This short paper is the extended part of Ghouri, et al. (2011) study. This paper presents the finding about the owners of restaurant and catering businesses marketing practices. This study showed their mindset about the marketing practices. The findings suggest that owners of restaurants and...

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The Development of SMEs in Turkey

Nurrachmi, Rininta Nurrachmi; Abd Samad, Khairunnisa; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

observe the SME condition, its contribution to economic development in Turkey as well as to explore the constraints, issue and …

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