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SMEs and regional economic growth in Brazil
, 2012 This paper examines the relationship between the small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) sector and economic growth for an annual panel of Brazilian states for the period 1985–2004.
T. Cravo, A. Gourlay, B. Becker
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Business Strategy and the Environment, 2020 This paper aims to examine the relationship between environmental management and SMEs performance. In order to investigate this relationship, the study adopts General Methods of Moments (GMM) on a sample of 201 quoted Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs ...
D. Boakye +4 more
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Small and medium enterprises, growth, and poverty : cross-country evidence [PDF]
The authors explore the relationship between the relative size of the small and medium enterprise (SME) sector, economic growth, and poverty using a new database on the share of SME labor in the total manufacturing labor force.
Thorsten Beck, Ross Levine
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Journal of Theoretical and Applied Electronic Commerce ResearchBuying online has become ordinary behaviour for European consumers, yet selling online remains a minority practice among small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). This study asks whether the two have developed in step within countries.
Ovidiu-Aurel Ghiuță
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, 2004 This Note explores the relationship between the size of the small and medium-size enterprise (SME) sector and economic growth and poverty reduction. A new study finds no support for the widely held belief that SMEs promote higher growth and lower pover ...
Thorsten Beck +2 more
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Antecedents, consequences, and challenges of small and medium-sized enterprise digitalization
, 2020 Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) lag behind larger firms when it comes to digitalization. This has negative impacts on firm performance. Despite the economic importance of SMEs, little is known about the antecedents, consequences, and challenges
R. Eller +3 more
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The International Entrepreneurship and Management Journal, 2020 Taking the right amount of risk is essential for successful business. As a response to the importance of risk management, the effectiveness and implementation of enterprise risk management (ERM) systems are recently discussed in literature.
Gundula Glowka +2 more
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Competency Mapping for Industry 4.0: An Empirical Study of Kazakhstan’s Entrepreneurial Sector
Eurasian Journal of Economic and Business StudiesAmid rapid digitalization and the ongoing transformation of the economy, the need to revise approaches to the assessment and development of human capital is growing.
Assel Sadenova +3 more
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SME 4.0: The Role of Small- and Medium-Sized Enterprises in the Digital Transformation
Industry 4.0 for SMEs, 2020 Industry 4.0 can be the starting point for implementation projects as a low-risk entry into an adapted digitization strategy. In larger companies, comprehensive digitization initiatives are already integrated into the central corporate strategy, while ...
D. Matt, E. Rauch
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The Industrialisation Process of Asian Small and Medium Firms [PDF]
National governments throughout the Asia-Pacific Region have identified small and medium enterprises as an important source of economic growth and employment.
Hodgkinson, A.
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