Innovation capacity: A perspective on innovation capabilities of consulting engineering firms
Background: Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) play a significant role in job creation and bridging the widening gap between the rich and the poor in South Africa. Several factors determine the success of SMEs.
Mahlatse M. Mogashoa, Olebogeng Selebi
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Hidden reserves as an alternative channel of firm finance
This study analyses the argument that whether Turkish non-financial firms utilize any informal source of alternative funding during economic uncertainties over the last decade.
İbrahim Yarba
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Competitiveness of the SMES: The Factors Influencing Successful Implementation of E-Commerce and E-Supply within Romanian SMES Businesses [PDF]
There are many ways in which the firms’ competitiveness can be understood in the related literature. The main reason for addressing competitiveness at Romanian small and medium-sized businesses level is that, ultimately, competitiveness is measured and ...
Nicolae Daniel MĂIŢĂ +2 more
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Adaptability and survival in small- and medium-sized firms [PDF]
Abstract This article considers the causal connection between adaptability and survival in populations of small- and medium-sized enterprises. Some literatures have downplayed adaptability by focusing on statics and equilibria (parts of mainstream economics).
Geoffrey Hodgson +2 more
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Performance analysis of small and medium-sized construction firms in Oyo State, Nigeria
This article examines time and cost performance of projects executed by small and mediumsized construction firms with a view to enhancing the firms’ capabilities.
Afolabi Olubunmi Abosede +4 more
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The need to address the problems facing the natural environment and social economic development cannot be overemphasised. The aim of the study was to assess the influence of firm size on the level of implementation of sustainability practices in Niger ...
Otali Monday +2 more
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IMPACT OF SMALL AND MEDIUM-SIZED TOURISM FIRMS ON EMPLOYMENT IN KAZAKHSTAN [PDF]
Nowadays, small and medium-sized tourism firms play a key role in the development of the national economy of Kazakhstan. In 2019, there were over 7000 small and medium-sized tourism firms in Kazakhstan.
Aliya AKTYMBAYEVA +4 more
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The Internationalization of Small and Medium-Sized Firms
This paper contributes to the existing research by integrating the notions of organizational learning and entrepreneurial orientation into the body of international entrepreneurship. Our primary framework combines learning theory and the new venture theory of internationalization to study the extent to which small and medium-sized companies engage in ...
De Clercq, Dirk, SAPIENZA, HJ, CRIJNS, H
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The treatment of disabled individuals in small, medium‐sized, and large firms [PDF]
AbstractIntegrating literature on small firm informality and organizational growth and development into Stone and Colella's model of the workplace treatment of disabled individuals, we assess prior claims that disability employment outcomes are better in large firms than in small and medium‐sized firms.
Nick Bacon, Kim Hoque
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Heterogeneous Effect of Uncertainty on Corporate Investment: Evidence from Listed Korean Firms
In this study, we analyse the effect of financial uncertainty on corporate investment using firm-level panel data from the Republic of Korea. We find that financial uncertainty has a significant negative effect on corporate investment, and that the ...
Cheonkoo Kim +3 more
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