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Author : Council of Europe
Publisher : Council of Europe
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1994-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 928712549X
Author : Elisabeth Herrle
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 35 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2007-07-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783638825221
Seminar paper from the year 2006 in the subject Economics - International Economic Relations, grade: 1,0, , course: Monetary and Fiscal Policies of the European Union, language: English, abstract: This essay provides basic information on the way the EU tries to promote small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). This policy field is very complex as SMEs are affected by Community legislation on a host of issues. As a result, over the years, the institutions of the EU introduced a kaleidoscope of programmes targeted at SMEs to enhance their situation on the market. To examine the most important ones of these programmes, first and foremost, the promotion of SMEs will be integrated into the industrial policy of the EU: I will shed some light on the rationale for an industrial policy and the three different approaches to it. Furthermore, I will elaborate on the evolution of the industrial policy within the EU. In the second part, I will have a closer look at SMEs in Europe, how they are defined and what their role is in the European economy. After having given this background information, I will examine how the EU promotes SMEs. First of all, I will dwell on the European Charter for Small Enterprises followed by some information on the Multiannual Programme for Enterprise and Entrepreneurship. In addition, I will give some details on programmes to promote conditions conducive for entrepreneurial activity; The Entrepreneurship Action Plan and the eEurope 2005 Action Plan respectively Go Digital. Finally, I will establish a connection between the EU industrial policy and the Lisbon Strategy.
Author : Svetlana Shirobakina
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 18 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2006-07-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783638521864
Essay from the year 2004 in the subject Business economics - Miscellaneous, grade: 1,3, University of Lincoln, course: B.A. European Business, language: English, abstract: The Lisbon European Council of March 2000 set the European Union a new strategic objective for the coming years:to become the most competitive and dynamic knowledge-based economy in the world, capable of sustained economic growth with more and better jobs and greater social cohesion. It is considered that Europe’s competitiveness and economic progress is strong dependent on its small and medium-sized enterprises, which are the key-source for job creating as well as for searching for new business ideas and innovative solutions, its main driver for entrepreneurship. For this reason, the European Council endorsed the “think small first” principle as one way to progress towards the Lisbon objectives. The idea of the small business has captured the imagination of the public and politicians over past years. They agree in the point that to meet the challenge of new integrated Europe requires a better business environment within the Internal Market, including the lightest possible administrative and regulatory burdens for small businesses and a better access to finance resources as well as creating of simple and effective legislation. It also requires a revolution in attitudes to entrepreneurship and to risk-taking processes, which will allow viewing failure as a part of experience, as an “opportunity to learn” from mistakes. They also emphasise the fact that small enterprises are normally more sensitive to changes in the business environment than large firms. They are the first to suffer if weighed down with excessive bureaucracy and creating new administrative burdens. And they are the first to flourish from initiatives such as decrease in taxation rate and promotion. My essay aims to answer the question to what extent the EU’s main market integration initiatives address the needs of SME’s and what should be done on the way to developing strong, competitive SMEs which would use all benefits from the Single European Market. It is important to define what we mean by SMEs before proceeding to answer these questions. For the purpose of this essay, SMEs are defined as non-subsidiary, independent firms, which employ less than 250 employees. We have to take into account the fact that this number may vary across national statistical systems. [...]
Author : David Hitchens
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2003-07-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 3540401474
The environmental performance of SMEs (Small and Medium sized Enterprises) is an area of major policy concern. SMEs in Europe reports on factors influencing the environmental performance of SMEs across four European countries: the UK, Ireland, Germany and Italy. While there are a range of factors which are expected to influence the take up of clean technology, this book focuses on three key hypotheses, namely firm competitiveness, culture and use and availability of information and advice. The book is unique as it is based on in-depths interviews conducted in 300 SMEs and an additional postal survey with more than 800 replies.
Author : European Commission. Enterprise DG.
Publisher : Luxembourg : Office for Official Publications of the European Communities
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105121858224
Author : Kenneth Dyson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 155 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2005-09-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134956869
The single European market after 1992 presents a major challenge to small and medium-sized companies in the Community. Whether it is developing exports and/or fighting off new imports, Europe's entrepreneurs will have to `think European'. Moreover, the European Community institutions themselves have developed special policies designed to promote the interests of Europe's smaller companies. This volume explains how the EC's policies towards small and medium-sized enterprises have developed and what they currently entail. It guides the reader through the various EC policy initiatives and the new legislation - including that in the `1992' package - relevant to the smaller business company. It offers summaries of the key EC documents concerned, and presents a full listing of all the other relevant proposals and policies. Like the others in this series, the volume is both comprehensive and up-to-date: it discusses not only what the EC has done which is relevant to small businesses, but also what it is proposing to do in the future.
Author : Galen Spencer Hull
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2013-01-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781136530999
First published in 1999. Small businesses now constitute the most dynamic element of growth in the emerging markets of the Central and Eastern European region. This book argues that the small and medium sized enterprise (SME) sector has contributed more to the growth of these countries in transition than have privatized state enterprises and the public sector. In 1989 most of the countries of Eastern and Central Europe were still under an economic system dominated by state-owned enterprises. Since then a process of liberalization has been unleashed to promote free market policies. This has involved programs of privatization and restructuring of public enterprises, as well as the promotion of policies to enable a private sector to develop. Small businesses are creating thousands of new jobs while large companies are "retrenching and downsizing" their work force. In some countries of the region this process is much further along than in others. However, the SME sector has developed at a more rapid pace than has the privatization of the large public companies. There has been a flurry of new enterprises springing up throughout the region which are "trickling up" in a frequently hostile environment against tremendous odds, and yet managing to have a pronounced impact on their respective economies. Small businesses have taken over in sectors that used to be dominated by big enterprises, primarily in services and consumer products. They have provided a crucial outlet for pent-up entrepreneurial talent that had remained dormant during the long period of state domination. This work urges legislators, policy-makers, and development agencies alike to take account of the importance of the SME's in their legislation and planning. Given a more favorable environment, these small businesses will provide even greater impetus for economic growth. Equally important is for entrepreneurs themselves to be convinced of the rightness of their path in societies that have traditionally looked down upon profit-seekers as unscrupulous and selfish. If the CEE region is to achieve its full potential of economic growth, policies and support mechanisms to promote the SME sector will be needed to assure a favorable environment.
Author : OECD,European Training Foundation,European Union,European Bank for Reconstruction and Development,South East European Centre for Entrepreneurial Learning
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789264254473
The SME Policy Index is a benchmarking tool designed for emerging economies to assess SME policy frameworks and monitor progress in policy implementation over time.
Author : European Observatory for SMEs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Arbejdsmarkedet
ISBN : UOM:39015052400556
Against the background of completing the European Single Market is the observance and monitoring of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). With about 20 million such businesses, employing some 117 million people, SMEs represent an economic lynchpin to the success of the Single Market concept. This 6th report, from the Observatory, and prepared by a consortium led by KPMG Consulting, focuses on the economic and financial needs of SMEs. Specific chapters look at their products and services, the recruitment and training of staff, particulary vocational training, and their access to investment. The report is concluded with the set of policy recommendations, which are aimed at strengthening the entrepreneurial culture. These recommendations include: to provide more information on public procurement to SMEs; to promote further resarch on the impact of electronic commerce on the position of SMEs.
Author : Alexander Wunder
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2004-09-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783638308939
Seminar paper from the year 2003 in the subject Business economics - Economic Policy, grade: 1,0 (A), University of Lodz (Department of Entrepreneurship), language: English, abstract: In the following paper I want to pay attention to the SME (Small and Medium-sized Enterprises) Sector in Poland. Researches within this Sector are very important, because that sector is the most dynamic in the whole Economy. Entry and Exit Rates of Businesses are about 10 % in the EU (European Union) and are even more in Poland. Noreen Doyle described it as the backbone for a lasting and effective business environment. As well as in the Transitional Period, which will be examined in detail in this paper, as in the accession phase of Poland to become member of EU, the development of the SME Sector will determine the future of Poland to a great extent. After defining this Sector, I will show the development separated in phases since 1980. In the following chapter, I will try to sum up the most important influencing factors for SMEs. Finally, I will consider some specific problems of Poland joining the EU.
Author : European Commission
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Business
ISBN : STANFORD:36105111643552
Author : Peter L. Vesterdorf
Publisher : peter vesterdorf
Page : 163 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2005-10-14
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9788776910341
Bogen giver et aktuelt overblik over EU-politik af særlig betydning for små og mellemstore virksomheder. Den påpeger problemer, der bør løses, og anviser nogle midler dertil, mens den på den anden side set også anerkender positive resultater af EUs lovgivning og politik på en række områder. Bogen afspejler i vid udstrækning synspunkter, der på EU-plan repræsenteres af UEAPME, den europ. organisation for håndværk og små og mellemstore virksomheder samt af Håndværksrådet. Bogen, der er på engelsk, vil også være egnet til anvendelse på visse danske skoler og læreanstalter samt blandt journalister, politikere og erhvervsorganisationer. Bogen synes at være den eneste på markedet om det pågældende emne.
Author : OECD,European Union,European Training Foundation,European Bank for Reconstruction and Development
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2012-10-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789264178847
This assessment of SME policy frameworks in eastern partnership countries helps support SME policy development in the eastern partnership countries through identification of strong and weak points in SME policy elaboration and implementation.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Business
ISBN : STANFORD:36105111610429
The Business Environment Simplification Task Force (BEST) was set up in 1997 to prepare an independent report on ways of improving legislation and removing unnecessary hindrances to the development of European businesses, particularly small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). In addition, BEST looked at a number of other areas of difficulty for SMEs. By considering all aspects of policy affecting entrepreneurship and competitiveness at European and national level, BEST aimed to focus the attention of policy-makers on the need for continuous improvement. Its recommendations, made to the European Commission in 1998, formed the basis of the 'Action Plan to Promote Entrepreneurship and Competitiveness'. This was endorsed by the Council of Ministers on 29 April 1999. The report on which this publication is based describes work that has been done by Member States, Norway, the Commission, the Council and the European Parliament towards implementing the Action Plan, which included a series of recommendations in the following priority areas: education for an entrepreneurial society and training; access to finance; access to research and innovation; improving the visibility of support services; improving public administration; and improving employment and working conditions. The conclusions and recommendations from the Implementation Report, which was compiled in close cooperation with Member States, are included here in their entirety, and will be followed up in subsequent reports.
Author : Will Bartlett,Milford Bateman,Maja Vehovec
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781461509592
Since the end of the Kosovo war in 1999, increasing attention has been paid to the problems of economic development and reconstruction in South-East Europe. In a context of limited resources, small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) have a key role to play in creating jobs and building a dynamic entrepreneurial economy. Small Enterprise Development In South-East Europe presents important findings from recent empirical research on key factors, which hinder sustainable SME growth in South-East Europe. Finance is identified as a critical barrier to growth, and the role of commercial banks, micro-finance institutions and credit cooperatives in assisting growth is addressed. Yet finance alone is not enough. A rebuilding of social capital, a reduction of the unofficial or grey economy, and the promotion of inter-firm networks and clusters are also of vital importance in promoting sustainable growth. The book concludes with critical analyses of SME policies in Albania, Croatia, and Macedonia, countries which hitherto have received little attention in the literature. Small Enterprise Development in South-East Europe will be of great interest to policy makers, business consultants, and academics and post-graduate students working on economic development and reconstruction in South-East Europe.