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Enterprise integration tools: a small manufacturing enterprise perspective

International Journal of Information Technology and Management, 2002
Integrating various strategic manufacturing technologies and philosophies is an issue that is usually addressed at the large manufacturing enterprise level. There has been little effort to address the integration of these technologies and philosophies for the small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs).
Brian L. Huff, Donald H. Liles, Joseph Sarkis   +2 more
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Enterprise Architecture for Small and Medium Enterprise Growth

2011
A key constraint for growing small and medium enterprises (SMEs) is the business skills required to grow the enterprises through the stages of transformation. Criticism against growth stage models for SMEs is of concern, since these models contain the typical knowledge that appeals to managers of small enterprises as guidance in how to manage growth ...
Dina Jacobs, Paula Kotzé, Alta van der Merwe, Aurona Gerber   +3 more
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Integrated management in small enterprises [PDF]

Review of General Management, 2013
The idea of the integration of management systems is often abused in practice by defining diverse activities, not necessarily consistent, aimed at achieving various objectives by the enterprise, as an integrated system. In other words, not all actions undertaken to manage various aspects may be regarded as an integrated system. It is sometimes possible
Magdalena GORZELANY–DZIADKOWIEC, Janusz FUDALINSKI   +1 more
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Motivation for innovation in small enterprises

International Journal of Technology Management, 2012
This study examines which factors motivate small enterprises to realise product innovations and how these factors affect their innovation processes. In a multiple embedded case study of three small enterprises, 11 different innovation processes, both realised and unrealised, were discovered and analysed. Strategy, competition, profit, growth, source of
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Small Enterprises and Development

Economic Development and Cultural Change, 1991
The development community seems to compete with the fashion world in the faddishness of its orientations. The latest of these trends has produced an explosion of interest in small productive enterprises. Third World governments, bilateral and multilateral aid agencies, and an assortment of nongovernmental institutions have all come to emphasize the ...
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Economics and small enterprises

2020
Economists interested in industrial structure spend much of their time thinking about size of enterprise, but usually about bigness and the problems associated with it rather than about smallness as such. Hostility to bigness of firms relative to markets has a long and honourable history in economics, and the analysis on which that hostility is founded
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Virtual Enterprise Architectural Framework: Collaboration for Small and Medium Enterprises

Volume 2: Systems; Micro and Nano Technologies; Sustainable Manufacturing, 2013
This paper presents a methodological approach to support the running of a temporary collaborative network through the formation and operation of a virtual enterprise (VE), where the participating enterprises, especially small and medium size enterprises (SMEs), collaborate with each other for mutual benefit.
Shamsuzzoha Ahm, Helo Petri
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Researching the Small Enterprise

2001
The Need for Small Business Research First Stages in the Small Business Research Project In the Field Analysing Data Presentation The Last Link in the Research Chain ...
James Curran, Robert Blackburn
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The Development of Small Enterprises

2001
Abstract An outstanding peculiarity of the Soviet economy was the dearth of small enterprises. Therefore, the development of small private enterprises is a sine qua non for the post-Communist economy becoming a normal market economy. The issues arc both private ownership and size of enterprises.
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Six Sigma application in small enterprise

Concurrent Engineering, 2015
Six Sigma has been used by large companies to improve the performance of their manufacturing processes. However, the interest and the application of this methodology in small- and medium-sized enterprises is something emerging, despite being little widespread in the literature.
Fernanda Gonçalves Amitrano, Carla Cristina Amodio Estorilio, Ligia de Oliveira Franzosi Bessa, Kazuo Hatakeyama   +3 more
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