Enhancing The Competitiveness Of Smes

Author : Perez-Uribe, Rafael,Ocampo-Guzman, David,Salcedo-Perez, Carlos,Piñeiro-Cortes, Lorena,Ramirez-Salazar, Maria Del Pilar
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 712 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2019-12-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781522594260

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Handbook of Research on Increasing the Competitiveness of SMEs by Perez-Uribe, Rafael,Ocampo-Guzman, David,Salcedo-Perez, Carlos,Piñeiro-Cortes, Lorena,Ramirez-Salazar, Maria Del Pilar Pdf

Countries have been competing against each other in order to attract financial investment and human capital for decades. However, emerging economies have a long way to go before they achieve the same levels of competitiveness as a developed economy. Lack of firm institutions, inadequate infrastructure, and a lack of trust in the legal system are urgent and unavoidable factors that emerging economies must address. The Handbook of Research on Increasing the Competitiveness of SMEs provides innovative insights on integrating, adapting, and building models and strategies compatible with the development of competitiveness in small and medium enterprises in emerging countries. The content within this publication examines quality management, organizational leadership, and digital security. It is designed for policymakers, entrepreneurs, managers, executives, business professionals, academicians, researchers, and students.

Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2001-04-16
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789264192560

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Enhancing SME Competitiveness The OECD Bologna Ministerial Conference by OECD Pdf

These workshop proceedings discuss releasing the potential of SMEs by enhancing their access to global markets.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : UN
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UCSD:31822034613919

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Enhancing the Competitiveness of SMEs by Anonim Pdf

"Innovative SMEs play a pivotal role in raising the growth potential of national economies. Even more than large firms, SMEs need to access external sources of information, knowledge, know-how and technologies to build their own innovative capability and to reach their markets. However, most developing countries in the Asia-Pacific region have very fragmented innovation systems and thus their indigenous innovation capacity is very weak. A subnational innovation system (SIS) has been widely recognized as a way to address this issue. A SIS policy focuses on industrial development and enhancing the competitiveness of local enterprises through technology and innovation capacity-building. As part of a project on SIS and technology capacity-building policies, UNESCAP undertook studies on the SIS policy framework and an SME technology capacity-building strategy and organized a regional consultative meeting to discuss such a policy framework. This publication contains two major studies, a number of best practices, case studies and country papers presented at the meeting, and policy recommendations adopted at the meeting." -- provided by publisher.

Author : Klaus North,Gregorio Varvakis
Publisher : Springer
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2016-02-19
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783319273037

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Competitive Strategies for Small and Medium Enterprises by Klaus North,Gregorio Varvakis Pdf

This book is a timely guide for Small and Medium Enterprise (SME) researchers, policy makers and strategists. SMEs are the most important sources of job creation and local development especially in knowledge-based economies. As turbulence in the globalized economies expands SMEs will have to learn to sustain competitiveness by developing their ‘dynamic capabilities’. Based on the findings of a 4-year European and Latin American research project, this book provides a theoretical framework, practical instruments and cases on how SMEs in diverse economic, social and cultural contexts can develop crisis resilience, increase agility, innovate and thus successfully compete in turbulent times.

Author : OECD,Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2018-09-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789264305328

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SME Policy Index: ASEAN 2018 Boosting Competitiveness and Inclusive Growth by OECD,Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia Pdf

The SME Policy Index is a benchmarking tool for emerging economies to monitor and evaluate progress in policies that support small and medium-sized enterprises.

Author : Cruz-Cunha, Maria Manuela,Varaj?o, Jo?o
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 490 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2010-09-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781616928827

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E-Business Issues, Challenges and Opportunities for SMEs: Driving Competitiveness by Cruz-Cunha, Maria Manuela,Varaj?o, Jo?o Pdf

Electronic business plays a central role in the economy, facilitating the exchange of information, goods, services, and payments. It propels productivity and competitiveness and is accessible to all enterprises, and as such, represents an opportunity also for SME competitiveness. E-Business Issues, Challenges and Opportunities for SMEs: Driving Competitiveness discusses the main issues, challenges, opportunities, and solutions related to electronic business adoption, with a special focus on SMEs. Addressing technological, organizational, and legal perspectives in a very comprehensive way, this text aims to disseminate current developments, case studies, new integrated approaches, and practical solutions and applications for SMEs.

Author : Management Association, Information Resources
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 1496 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2021-06-25
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781799891567

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Research Anthology on Small Business Strategies for Success and Survival by Management Association, Information Resources Pdf

Running a small business provides opportunity for greater success, increased growth, and potentially the chance to move to the global business arena, yet also much more risk. Small businesses not only have less employment, but also less annual revenue than a regular-sized business. With the growth of large corporations and chain businesses, it has become harder to maintain the survival of a small business. The COVID-19 pandemic has also brought more pressure onto the already unsteady survival of small businesses, due to forced closures, decreased agility, fewer technological innovations, and smaller customer bases. The Research Anthology on Small Business Strategies for Success and Survival offers current strategies for small businesses that can be utilized in order to maintain equal footing during challenging times. With the proper strategies available to small business owners, small businesses could not only survive, but also excel despite the environment that surrounds them. Covering topics including decision management, new supportive technologies, sustainable development, and micro-financing, this text is ideal for small business owners, entrepreneurs, startup companies, family-owned and operated businesses, restaurateurs, local retailers, managers, executives, academicians, researchers, and students.

Author : International Trade Centre
Publisher : United Nations
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2014-11-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789213614822

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50 Years of Unlocking SME Competitiveness by International Trade Centre Pdf

50 years of fostering trade competitiveness around the globe generated a wealth of experience and expertise. ITC gained invaluable insights and learned many lessons in supporting SMEs in developing, least developed and transition economies to enhance their competitiveness and to internationalize. While ITC’s mandate has remained unchanged over the last five decades, the trade landscape has altered radically and with it the manner in which ITC has delivered its trade-related technical assistance. The rise of a multi-polar global economy gave way to new trade, market and investment opportunities. A technological revolution transformed the way business is being transacted around the world. The multilateral, regional and bilateral trade regime matured and new governance patterns in international trade emerged in the form of supply chain trade.

Author : Laura Gavinelli
Publisher : Springer
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2016-07-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781137578105

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Business Strategies and Competitiveness in Times of Crisis by Laura Gavinelli Pdf

This book focuses on the relationship between business strategy and competition among Italian SMEs in the aftermath of the economic crisis. First examining business strategy and competitive advantage in a broader sense, Business Strategies and Competitiveness in Times of Crisis goes on to analyse the strategic behaviour of SMEs and the key factors that allow them to overcome the challenges they face. The book covers wide-ranging topics such as marketing and communication strategies, internationalization process and entry modes, access to credit, networking, innovation process and human resources enhancement. Referring to insightful case studies and surveys conducted between 2011 and 2014, it reflects on managerial implications for Italian SMEs and identifies their three main competitive challenges.

Author : Bernard M. Hoekman
Publisher : UN
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9291374180

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50 Years of Unlocking SME Competitiveness by Bernard M. Hoekman Pdf

50 years of fostering trade competitiveness around the globe generated a wealth of experience and expertise. ITC gained invaluable insights and learned many lessons in supporting SMEs in developing, least developed and transition economies to enhance their competitiveness and to internationalise. While ITC's mandate has remained unchanged over the last five decades, the trade landscape has altered radically and with it the manner in which ITC has delivered its trade-related technical assistance. The rise of a multi-polar global economy gave way to new trade, market and investment opportunities. A technological revolution transformed the way business is being transacted around the world. The multilateral, regional and bilateral trade regime matured and new governance patterns in international trade emerged in the form of supply chain trade

Author : Azad Bali,Peter McKiernan,Christopher Vas,Peter Waring
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2018-10-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780429950292

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Productivity and Innovation in SMEs by Azad Bali,Peter McKiernan,Christopher Vas,Peter Waring Pdf

This book analyses the determining factors behind productivity and innovation amongst Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in Singapore, and within the context of South East Asia, in order to offer recommendations for increasing productivity and aiding economic growth. SME firms are an influential driver of economic growth in advanced world economies like the USA, Germany, Japan and South Korea. Throughout the 2000s, Singapore experienced a decline in economic growth which was linked to decreasing productivity in its SMEs. The decline triggered a transformational policy by a Government intent on forging a ‘high skill–high productivity’ future. Given substantial evidence that low productivity growth occurred in sectors where immigrants dominated the workforce, the seeds of recovery focused on improving productivity and innovation amongst SMEs in those sectors. Hence, this book investigates the factors determining productivity amongst SMEs across the manufacturing sector. It utilises personal interviews with global experts and CEOs, combined with primary data collected from a major international Delphi survey, and interviews with 215 SME owners and managers in Singapore. This data helps us to better understand how these productivity-enhancing factors can be used to increase performance amongst SMEs. By investigating the nature and process of total factor productivity in Singapore’s SMEs, this book tells the policy story behind the revolution. To provide a comparative analysis, Singapore’s story is placed within a South East Asian context. The unfolding narrative contains important lessons for policy makers and industry globally, as they assess the strategic choices available to them for improving productivity and innovation. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of innovation and productivity, as well as economic development officers, government policy advisors, SME business managers and sustainable businesses.

Author : OECD
Publisher : Org. for Economic Cooperation & Development
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Economic development
ISBN : 9264967915

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Strengthening SMEs and Entrepreneurship for Productivity and Inclusive Growth by OECD Pdf

SMEs that grow have a considerable positive impact on employment creation, innovation, productivity growth and competitiveness. Digital technologies and global value chains offer new opportunities for SMEs to participate in the global economy, innovate and strengthen productivity. Yet SMEs are lagging behind in the digital transition and are disproportionately affected by market failures, trade barriers, policy inefficiencies and the quality of institutions. A cross-cutting approach to SME policy can enhance SME innovation and scale-up, as well as their contributions to inclusive growth. This includes a business environment conducive to risk-taking and experimentation by entrepreneurs, as well as access to entrepreneurship competencies, management and workforce skills, technology, innovation, and networks.

Author : Sanjaya Lall
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Developing countries
ISBN : STANFORD:36105112983809

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Strengthening SMEs for International Competitiveness by Sanjaya Lall Pdf

Author : ADBI,ADB
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2016-03-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789292571368

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Integrating SMEs into Global Value Chains by ADBI,ADB Pdf

Globalized production networks, or global value chains, provide an opportunity for SMEs to upscale their business models and to grow across borders. This process can enhance SME competitiveness, create more jobs, and promote inclusive growth in developing Asia. The Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the ADB Institute (ADBI) recognize the importance of integrating SMEs into global value chains. To provide pathways for such integration, this study examines ways of encouraging participation in value chains, and explores policy solutions to address the financial and nonfinancial barriers faced by these enterprises.

Author : International Trade Centre
Publisher : United Nations
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2021-06-21
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789210057660

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SME Competitiveness Outlook 2021 by International Trade Centre Pdf

The SME Competitiveness Outlook 2021 analyses how small businesses can rebuild from the COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic so they are better prepared to face the looming crisis of climate change. It provides a 20-point Green Recovery Plan to foster competitive, resilient and environmentally sustainable small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). The report finds that firms owned by women and young people were hurt more by the pandemic and are more vulnerable to future shocks, such those brought by a changing climate. It shows how business support organizations, governments, lead firms in value chains and international organizations can enable SMEs to strengthen competitiveness, build resilience to climate hazards, and contribute to safeguarding the planet.