The paper reviews the role of Small and Medium Size Enterprises (SMEs) as drivers of employment and economic growth in … development and identified lessons for national level policy that can help strengthen the performance of SMEs and enhance the … creation of new SMEs. This working paper focuses on four cases studies in Atlantic Canada, Quebec, Scotland and the United …

benchmarking regulatory compliance burdens across all jurisdictions in Australia is technically feasible. Furthermore, it could …The Productivity Commission's research report into 'Performance Benchmarking of Australian Business Regulation' was …

the most innovative firms in Australia. A second method of benchmarking uses a stochastic production frontier. This type …, with a specific aim of developing benchmarking tools. Innovation is measured by firms' investment in R&D and applications … for patents, trademarks and designs. An innovation index is constructed to provide one method of benchmarking. The index …

auf den Erfolg oft nicht messbar ist. Neben diversen Benchmarking-Modellen, die sich in der Anwendung befinden, ist vor … allem das Peer Group Benchmarking ein geeignetes Managementinstrument zur relativen Performanceevaluation über finanzielle … Steuerungsgrößen. Das Ziel der vorliegenden Arbeit ist es, ein systematisches Konzept zum Peer Group Benchmarking zu entwickeln, um den …