This compendium contains 20 case studies of public programmes in European countries that are successfully supporting business creation by people from disadvantaged and under-represented groups in entrepreneurship. The populations targeted by these programmes include youth, women…
This book enlightens the concepts and challenges of knowledge management for both urban environments and entire regions, enhancing the expertise and knowledge of scholars, researchers, practitioners, managers and urban developers in the development of successful knowledge-based …
SME Policy Index for the Western Balkans and Turkey 2016: assessing the implementation of the Small Busines…
by European Training Foundation, Bonturi, Marcos, Evans, Lowri, Pilloux, Alain, Serban, Madlen, Heder, Efka, Kisielewska, Marzena, Kyriatzis, Christos, Matheu de Cortada, Xavier, Falcetti, Elisabetta, Ruhe, Charlotte, European Commission., Directorate-General for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, South East European Centre for Entrepreneurial Learning, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development
The development of a dynamic and vibrant SME sector is of paramount importance for the seven EU pre-accession economies: Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia, and Turkey. The region's productive structure is predo…
The activities of the construction industry are essential for economic growth of countries all over the world. The importance of the industry is more felt in developing countries where infrastructure facilities required for improved living standards are relatively under-supplied…
The risks and opportunities that climate change presents for Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (SMEs) have been largely overlooked by previous research (Schaefer et al. 2011, Williams & Schaefer 2013). The subsequent lack of knowledge in this field makes a meaningful, profitabl…
Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) are a key economic sector in Malaysia. Malaysian government has actively promoted the development and growth initiatives such as ICT implementation to advance SMEs' overall economic agenda over the past decades. In 2005, there were 99.2 per ce…
The advent of Internet in our era of rapid technology expansion has revolutionized the way business is done like never before. The Internet offers us its virtually limitless resources and as can be seen in many developed countries, enterprises are already reaping the rewards tha…
Labor-intensive, small- and medium-sized industries (SMI) have difficulty times remaining profitable in today's highly competitive business environment. The problems faced by these industries are twofold: The existing high-tech performance optimization techniques, such as TQM, S…
Most internationalization theories and approaches developed within the framework of large companies have fallen short of explaining how and under what circumstances SMEs become internationalized. Consequently, research has been directed in recent years towards studying SMEs' int…
Problem. The primary purpose of this study is to explore the effectiveness of the rounds of sanctions imposed on Iran's import and export industries, and to determine the successful adaptation of particular industries to a new series of imposed policies. The current study was de…
The purpose of the research is to assess the influence of the entrepreneur's characteristics and strategies on the Egyptian firm's status of competitiveness. Moreover, almost all of the existing literature and empirical studies relating to SMEs issues have been staged in develop…
The marketing concept through market orientation provides an organization with a better understanding of its customers, competitors and business practices. While researchers have explored the relationship between market orientation and business performance in a variety of organi…