Smes In A Globalised World

Author : Ilan Bijaoui
Publisher : Springer
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2016-11-24
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781137564733

Get Book

SMEs in an Era of Globalization by Ilan Bijaoui Pdf

This book identifies the driving forces behind globalization and proposes innovative ways for small and medium-enterprises (SMEs) to confront them. More than ever, sustainable competitive advantage requires SMEs to continually adapt their strategy and confront new and current competition in the international market. SMEs working with multinational companies could also benefit from winning strategies based on a sensible analysis of rational and irrational phenomena at the micro- and macro-economic levels. This book uses different models developed and established through international business experiences to determine the relevant strategy in the global market. It illustrates each model through real, successful case studies of globalization of factor, efficiency, and innovation-driven SMEs. It will benefit scholars of entrepreneurship, international business, regional development as well as managers, governmental institutions, and regional development, and consultants to SMEs.

Author : Helena Lenihan,Bernadette Andr‰osso-O'Callaghan,Mark Hart
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781849805353

Get Book

SMEs in a Globalised World by Helena Lenihan,Bernadette Andr‰osso-O'Callaghan,Mark Hart Pdf

This insightful book shows how small and medium enterprises (SMEs) from some of the traditionally less dynamic peripheral economies of the old EU namely Ireland, Italy, Portugal and Spain have responded to the twin challenges of globalisation and industrial restructuring. Through a series of unique case studies the contributing authors discuss how these economies, and in particular the SME sector, can be transformed. The book begins by examining the key drivers of the globally competitive SME sector in the EU, before moving on to explore the relationship between multinational enterprises (MNEs), SMEs and industrial development. The authors investigate important policy implications and provide lessons for SME development and growth. With empirical and theoretical contributions on SMEs in both the manufacturing and the services sectors, this essential book will be invaluable for researchers and policymakers in small business economics and management. Postgraduate students of entrepreneurship, business economics, industrial economics and European studies will appreciate this unique set of insights.

Author : Gerald I. Susman
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781847204431

Get Book

Small and Medium-sized Enterprises and the Global Economy by Gerald I. Susman Pdf

Globalization has jarred the traditional role and competitiveness of small- and medium-sized enterprises. This masterful volume comprises leading scholars, policy makers and business leaders who have new insights and strategies for SMEs creating opportunities rather than being victims of globalization. The result is a breakthrough in our understanding of entrepreneurship in the global context. David B. Audretsch, Indiana University, Bloomington, US and WHU, Germany Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) often have difficulty competing in the global economy unless they collaborate with domestic or foreign partners or with public sector organizations. This book addresses the resource leverage and innovation challenges that increased global trade represents for SMEs. In doing so, it explores how SMEs can become more competitive at home and in foreign markets as stand-alone firms or as members of supplier and customer networks. SMEs are turning increasingly to innovation as a source of competitive advantage in order to protect their home markets and participate in expanding foreign markets. The contributors to this volume leading experts in entrepreneurship, innovation, and international business provide in-depth coverage of the most compelling issues facing SMEs. These include: innovation as a competitive strategy, network dynamics, ways to leverage technology, internationalization, and the role of the public sector in helping SMEs to overcome resource deficiencies. This comprehensive look at SMEs in the global marketplace will be of great interest to academics who study entrepreneurship, innovation, or international business, officials from public sector agencies with responsibility for helping SMEs to internationalize and become more innovative, and senior executives of SMEs or executives of larger companies who are considering collaboration with SMEs.

Author : Zoltan J. Acs,Bernard Yeung
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1999-04-28
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780472110018

Get Book

Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises in the Global Economy by Zoltan J. Acs,Bernard Yeung Pdf

DIVExplores how and why small and medium-sized businesses are flourishing in the global marketplace /div

Author : Alkis Thrassou,Demetris Vrontis,Yaakov Weber,S. M. Riad Shams,Evangelos Tsoukatos
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2020-11-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783030458317

Get Book

The Changing Role of SMEs in Global Business by Alkis Thrassou,Demetris Vrontis,Yaakov Weber,S. M. Riad Shams,Evangelos Tsoukatos Pdf

SMEs are significant job creators and drivers of innovation and competition in most economic sectors. Furthermore, the traditional constraints of small and medium enterprises, such as geographic operations, are now being dissolved by technological developments. This means that there are new opportunities for SMEs, and their fundamental principles are being redefined: the aims, competencies, strategy, management, practice, and scope of these businesses are changing, with wide-ranging implications. This is the first part of a two volume work that incorporates scientific chapters on SME business theory and practice. Authors provide a balanced perspective of the present and future of SMEs across all business disciplines, including management, strategy, marketing, economics, and finance. While Volume II explores external issues such as contextual forces, the effects of the financial crisis, and macro-economic effects, this first volume focuses on the individual SME and internal issues such as innovation, quality, and digitization.

Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2008-10-23
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789264051034

Get Book

Enhancing the Role of SMEs in Global Value Chains by OECD Pdf

This report identifies the ways in which governments, the business community, and international organisations can facilitate SMEs’ gainful participation in global value chains through policies, practices and targeted support programmes.

Author : Christoph Lohrmann
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 7 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2015-08-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783668032279

Get Book

Globalization and its opportunities for small- and medium-sized enterprises by Christoph Lohrmann Pdf

Essay from the year 2013 in the subject Economics - International Economic Relations, grade: 100%, University of Sussex, language: English, abstract: Small- and medium-sized companies (SMEs) represent about 95% of enterprises in Europe, with a high amount of small companies ranging between 22% - 66% as well as high importance all over the globe. Nevertheless, the sector of SMEs has been ignored and poorly understood for many decades. Eventually, a research conducted by the economist David Birch published in 1979 revealed that especially SMEs are responsible for economic growth in general and are the prime source for job creation, accounting for up to 60% of the overall employment. As a result, the OECD considers them to be the core for economic growth and the dominant form of businesses worldwide in the future, acknowledging the importance of SMEs within global economy. Knowledge about small- and medium-sized enterprises has become even more important due to the fact that the interest of small firms to operate on foreign markets increased in the last decades. This essay depicts the characteristics of small- and medium-sized companies, compares it to multinational companies (MNCs) to determine advantages as well as disadvantages and, finally, examines certain opportunities for SMEs offered by globalization and internationalisation.

Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2008-01-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789264044357

Get Book

Promoting Entrepreneurship and Innovative SMEs in a Global Economy by OECD Pdf

Author : Bharati, Pratyush,Lee, In,Chaudhury, Abhijit
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2010-04-30
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781615206285

Get Book

Global Perspectives on Small and Medium Enterprises and Strategic Information Systems: International Approaches by Bharati, Pratyush,Lee, In,Chaudhury, Abhijit Pdf

Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) play a critical role in rejuvenating and sustaining the modern economy, generating substantial employment and serving as important innovation engines for the global economy. Global Perspectives on Small and Medium Enterprises and Strategic Information Systems: International Approaches aims to spread research conducted on SMEs internationally and place it at the disposal of academics, practitioners, consultants, the vendor community, and policymakers. The goal of this book is to highlight the challenges faced by SMEs and how they are coping with the adverse environment through skillful use of IT and technologies such as Web 2.0, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), e-commerce, open source software, Business Process Digitization (BPD), and other emerging technologies.

Author : Moreira, António Carrizo
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2020-11-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781799843887

Get Book

Cases on Internationalization Challenges for SMEs by Moreira, António Carrizo Pdf

With the globalization process, firms are seeking to expand their activities to international markets but are also “feeling” expanded competition from abroad. Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), though seeking to expand abroad, have particularities that hinder their natural international expansion path due to particular barriers and challenges that most multinational firms have already overcome. Cases on Internationalization Challenges for SMEs provides a set of case studies on the internationalization of SMEs in order to share the latest empirical research findings in the field of internationalization in the context of a globalized world, and which considers a highly competitive international business setting. This includes examining the main reasons for the success or failure of the process of internationalization of SMEs and their inherent activities. Covering topics that include competitive advantage, export performance, and inward internationalization, this book targets managers, executives, and entrepreneurs concerned with how to adapt their companies to a fast-changing international business environment, how to conduct internationalization strategies, how to choose the most adequate international entry modes, and how to adapt their products and strategies to international markets. It is also suited for academicians, researchers, and students in the field of management.

Author : David B. Audretsch
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 648 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Arbejdskraftens mobilitet
ISBN : UCSC:32106017040657

Get Book

SMEs in the Age of Globalization by David B. Audretsch Pdf

"Bring[s] together the leading scholarly papers about how globalization has impacted the role of SMEs"--Back cover

Author : Jobaire Alam
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 21 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2018-03-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783668654624

Get Book

Internationalisation of Small Medium Enterprises (SMEs) by Jobaire Alam Pdf

Academic Paper from the year 2013 in the subject Leadership and Human Resources - Miscellaneous, grade: B, Prifysgol Cymru University of Wales, language: English, abstract: Internationalisation is such a fascination, by which states and companies are dealing business and going up against in contest between them on a worldwide level. Globalization, which is the formation to bring products or services in marketplace, subsidizes to the global economic growth and improvement of countries worldwide. In present world, internationalization impacts all the business firms large and small. Progressively, small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) which are ascertained as containing of firms employing less than 250 employees, with firms having less than 50 employees being concerned as small and firms having 50-249 employees being concerned as medium in size, are forced to play a role in international business markets. This globalisation is able to take many forms, such as exporting products and services, foreign investment in both way directly or indirectly, licensing, authorising completely, importing with exporting being the mode of internationalization for small and medium enterprises. According to the thesis topic ‘Internationalization of SMEs,’ the dissertation will discuss on the trading abroad or exporting of SMEs. As it can be said that doing internationalise may be important and useful for business companies in order to expand and exist in the further future, it cannot precisely confirm of the firm’s survival. The risks of loosing opportunities or chances and costs or values affected in the format will be a very vital considerable factor. Smaller firms find that very hard to recover or overcome these opposite situations and challenges. Moreover, these small firms certainly often suffer from their limited capacity and resources. The modern technology which is with the very developed useful software and hardware has been able to improve in the number of small and medium business firms to globalise themselves in to global competition market. Modern technology is indeed such a magic that is able to help even any single business owner to expand his business all over the world. So that it is very vital for small and medium enterprises to spread over into the global competition.

Author : Ana Paula Cusolito,Raed Safadi,Daria Taglioni
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2016-08-23
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781464808432

Get Book

Inclusive Global Value Chains by Ana Paula Cusolito,Raed Safadi,Daria Taglioni Pdf

This report's focus is making global value chains (GVCs) more inclusive. To achieve inclusiveness is by overcoming participation constraints for Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) and facilitation access for Low Income Developing Countries (LIDCs). The underlying assumption is that most firms in LIDCs are SMEs. Even larger firms in LIDCs are likely to face similar challenges to SMEs, including a less supportive domestic operating environment and weaker institutions that lead to higher fixed costs and challenges to compete on the international markets. The two major points of this report are (1) participation in GVCs is heterogeneous and uneven, across and within countries, and (2) available data and survey-based evidence suggest that SMEs’ participation in GVCs is mostly taking place through indirect contribution to exports, rather than through exporting directly. The report makes the case that policy action, at the national and multilateral level, can make a difference in achieving more inclusive GVCs through: a holistic approach to reform spanning trade, investment, and domestic policies countries and investments in expanding the statistical base and analysis of GVCs and in sharing knowledge on best practices on enabling policies and programs. The report elaborates on three broad areas of recommendations: (1) establishing a trade and investment action plan for inclusiveness defining clear and achievable objectives on trade and investment policy and identifying the necessary complementary domestic policy actions; (2) complementing trade, investment, and domestic policy actions by providing the needed political leadership and support to enhance collaboration across the sectors, and establishing global platforms for sharing best practices; and (3) providing political support for the establishment of a multi-year plan to expand and upgrade the statistical foundation necessary to increase the capacity of all countries to identify and implement policies that can contribute to stronger, more inclusive and sustainable growth and development, globally.

Author : ADBI,ADB
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2016-03-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789292571368

Get Book

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 : Anonim
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2016-06-23
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781786354839

Get Book

Global Entrepreneurship by Anonim Pdf

The role that small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) play in the economic development and growth of cities, regions and nations has been an increasing subject of debate and study for the last half century. This volume focuses on the opportunities and challenges that entrepreneurs and SMEs face in a world of global competition.