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What drives environmental practices of SMEs?

Hoogendoorn, Brigitte; Guerra, Daniela; Zwan, Peter - In: Small Business Economics 44 (2015) 4, pp. 759-781

The objective of this paper is to develop a better understanding of what drives small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to engage in environmental practices, and whether the drivers differ across types of practices. Two types of environmental practices are distinguished: practices related to...

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Facilitating innovation capability through performance measurement: A study of Finnish SMEs

Saunila, Minna; Ukko, Juhani - In: Management Research Review 36 (2013) 10, pp. 991-1010

Purpose - The study aims to clarify the issue of whether measurement has a positive effect on different aspects of innovation capability. The study contributes to the current understanding in two ways; first by presenting the important aspects of organisational innovation capability, and second...

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Accounting Purpose in Auditing Environmental Aspects in SME

Emanuel, ARTENE Alin; Emanuela, DOMIL Aura; SABÄ‚U … - In: Anale. Seria Stiinte Economice. Timisoara XIX (2013) May, pp. 34-37

Lack of regulation and general frameworks for reporting environmental information, determines auditors to avoid areas where their expertise can be useful. Because an environmental audit requires different types of skills, the most rational way of organizing this type of audit seems teamwork,...

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Access to credit of SMEs and MTEs: decline in supply or lower demand? Lessons learned from a new quarterly business survey

F. Guinouard.; E. Kremp.; M. Randriamisaina. - In: Quarterly selection of articles - Bulletin de la Banque … (2013) 30, pp. 21-33

Since 2012, the Banque de France has conducted a new survey on access to bank loans /credit for industrial and service sector SMEs and MTEs. Firms appear to have reduced their demand for bank financing although the supply has not contracted.

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Leveraged buy-outs in France: substantial differences between small and medium-sized targets

S. Souissi. - In: Quarterly selection of articles - Bulletin de la Banque … (2012) 25, pp. 41-52

Entities that have been restructured via LBOs generally appear to perform better and are more dynamic than the average: at constant investment rates, their development potential and cash-flow generation look higher.

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THE IMPORTANCE OF GAGE R&R FOR IMPLEMENTING SIX SIGMA PROJECTS IN SMEs

OHOTA, Adina Andreea; IORDACHE, Vlad - In: Journal of Doctoral Research in Economics 3 (2011) 2, pp. 30-40

The difference between the economic agents that offer similar products or services is made based on quality. Consumers are too poor to accept poor quality goods. Ant the other external pressures accentuate the importance of quality as competitive advantage, in relation with increasing...

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CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY- A NEW PERSPECTIVE FOR SMEs IN ROMANIA

POPA, Oana - In: Management and Marketing Journal X (2012) 1, pp. 153-164

This article presents the theme of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), a subject of great interest for the management of organizations and for the scientific research. In the last decade, concerns regarding the advanteges of a social responsible behaviour have increased not only for large...

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The Role of SME Suppliers in Implementing Sustainability

Meqdadi, Osama; Johnsen, Thomas; Johnsen, Rhona - HAL - 2012

This paper explores sustainability in supply network from a small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) perspective. The … approaches. Two pilot case studies have been conducted in France exploring how large manufacturing companies engage SME suppliers … in sustainability initiatives and the barriers and drivers for SME suppliers in becoming involved in such intitiatives …

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Improvement of small and medium-sized enterprises thanks to coaching methods

Parmová, Dagmar Škodová - In: Acta Universitatis Bohemiae Meridionales 10 (2007) 1, pp. 11-14

the size level of SME. Coaching instead of consulting can bring a better and quicker improvement in the development …

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STUDY ON THE PERFORMANCE EVALUATION MODELS OF SMALL AND MEDIUM ENTERPRISES IN ROMANIA

Ionela-Carmen, PIRNEA - In: Management Strategies Journal 22 (2013) 4, pp. 05-10

In the current economic context, market by the globalization of the requirements of the European integration process, there is a growing interest in the business performance, so that they substantially improve their competitiveness in the European requirements. The paper highlights some of the...

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