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Development Southern Africa, 2013
South Africa is characterised by extremely high unemployment, at a level that has the potential to derail its future political stability. This paper explores constraints on the job creation capabilities of micro and small enterprises, specifically focusing on the consequences of existing institutional and regulatory frameworks, looking at a panel of ...
Geoffrey Wood
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South Africa is characterised by extremely high unemployment, at a level that has the potential to derail its future political stability. This paper explores constraints on the job creation capabilities of micro and small enterprises, specifically focusing on the consequences of existing institutional and regulatory frameworks, looking at a panel of ...
Geoffrey Wood
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Supporting micro and small enterprises
, 2014 This chapter focuses on the contribution of micro-finance towards supporting the development of micro and small enterprises in rural areas in developing countries. The main objective of this chapter is to provide the broad meaning and scope of the concept of microfinance.
Atul Mishra +3 more
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Innovation, complementarities and performance in micro/small enterprises
International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation Management, 2007This paper gives an empirical contribution to the debate on new organisational forms, complementarities and their relation to a firm's competitiveness by means of a study on the organisational evolution of Micro/Small Enterprises (MSEs), which represent more than 90% of European firms but are not yet well analysed from the organisational point of view.
COMACCHIO, Anna +2 more
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Understanding Micro and Small Enterprises
2021This chapter discusses significant factors that elaborate the entrepreneurial environment in the context of micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs). The business environment and entrepreneurial ecosystem are central to the discussion in this chapter, which emphasizes on micro- and macro-economic factors affecting the entrepreneurial process and ...
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CLASSIFICATION OF MICRO AND SMALL ENTERPRISES
The 7th International Scientific Conference "Business and Management 2012". Selected papers, 2012Business may be viewed as the foundation of economy of any country. Business classification as provided by the European legislation cannot be directly adapted to the actual business environment in Latvia. This leads to a discrepancy between theory and practice (it is known that mostly existing theories are attributable to the large companies ...
Deniss Ščeulovs, Elīna Gaile-Sarkane
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AHP-based micro and small enterprises' cluster identification
2013 International Conference on Soft Computing and Pattern Recognition (SoCPaR), 2013Micro and Small Enterprises' (MSEs) cluster is a group of small firms operating in a defined geographic location, producing similar products or services, cooperating and competing with one another, learning from each other to solve internal problems, setting common strategies to overcome external challenges, and reaching distance markets through ...
Netsanet Jote +3 more
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THE CONTINUUM OF CAPITAL FOR SMALL AND MICRO ENTERPRISES [PDF]
Journal of Developmental Entrepreneurship, 2010 Since the 1990s, interest in the role of small and microenterprises (SMMEs) in economic development has garnered considerable attention throughout academic and practioner circles. Widely known for their potential to help stimulate economic growth and as a potential avenue for poverty alleviation, the purpose and promise of small businesses have been ...
LISA J. SERVON +2 more
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Micro and Small Enterprises in Assam
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2012This paper examines the structure and growth of micro and small enterprises (MSE) sector in Assam. We analyse the growth of the sector by different enterprise types in terms of different indicators such as number of units, employment, value added and fixed capital.
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Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprise Insolvency
2018This volume examines the current resolution process for distressed micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs), and proposes a different, more appropriate, ‘modular’ approach to the treatment of such entities when faced with insolvency proceedings. MSMEs play a vital role in virtually all global economies.
Riz Mokal +7 more
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IT Penetration in Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises
Journal of Rural and Industrial Development, 2015Information technology (IT) has become a vital and integral part of every business plan. From multinational corporations who maintain mainframe systems and databases to small businesses, IT plays an important role. The principal objective of the present research is to know the Information Technology (IT) penetration in Micro, Small and Medium ...
M. Sukanya, Ravi Prakash. K
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