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Assessing knowledge retention in construction organisations: Cases from the UAE
Australasian Journal of Construction Economics and Building, 2012 Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to present different issues facing the problem of knowledge retention by construction sector companies in the UAE.
Mohammed Arif +3 more
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Inter-firm Networking Propensity in Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) [PDF]
The Journal of Entrepreneurial Finance, 2002 In the past decade, market globalization has not only been a threat for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), but also an opportunity to expand their activities in many countries (Murphy and al., 1991). In fact, some of SMEs are worldwide leaders in their sectors (Simon, 1990; Entreprise, 1995). Moreover, few of these worldwide SME leaders started
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Small and medium enterprises across the globe : a new database [PDF]
This paper describes a new cross-country database on the importance of small and medium enterprises (SMEs). This database is unique in that it presents consistent and comparable information on the contribution of the SME sector to total employment and ...
Ayyagari, Meghana +2 more
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East-West co-operation of small and medium sized enterprises: evidence from the Berlin region [PDF]
, 2009 Globalization opens new opportunities also for small and medium sized enterprises (SME). However, empirical information on SMEs' international activities is still fragmented.
Sander, Birgit
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper examines whether and to what extent digital technologies (DTs) foster the adoption of environmental sustainability (ES), and how this relationship is moderated by family ownership. Using data from approximately 14,000 European firms surveyed in the Flash Eurobarometer 486, we estimate a recursive simultaneous equation model via a ...
Francesco Aiello +2 more
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SystemsStrategic mergers and acquisitions (M&A) can support sustainable business models by enabling firms to adapt their capabilities and competitive positions as conditions change. This study examines how target listing status (public vs. private) and acquirer
Sung-woo Cho, Jin-young Jung
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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.
Ross Levine, Thorsten Beck
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ASSESSING THE IMPACT OF PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT SYSTEMS IN NORTHERN NIGERIA SMALL BUSINESSES [PDF]
, 2015 Small and Medium-Size Enterprise (SME) growth is on the rise in some of the world’s wealthier economies, resulting from their role play in job creation and revenue generation, through tax for local and central governments.
Akpabot, Sunny, Khan, Zulf
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The supply chain consists of interconnected businesses and organisations responsible for the flow of goods and services. As firms increasingly adopt digital technologies, the spillover effects of supply chain digitalisation (SCD) on environmental performance remain underexplored.
Zengdong Cao +4 more
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SMEs and Regional Economic Growth in Brazil [PDF]
This paper examines the relationship between the Small and Medium Enterprise (SME) sector and economic growth for an annual panel of Brazilian states for the period 1985-2004.
Adrian Gourlay +2 more
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