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Production Planning, Scheduling and SME
, 2014 Small and medium-sized enterprises (SME) are the backbone of central Europe's economies and have a significant contribution to the gross domestic product. Production planning and scheduling (PPS) is still a crucial element in manufacturing industries of the 21st century even though this area of research is more than a century old.
Markus Heck, Hans Vettiger
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Agribusiness, EarlyView.Abstract World markets for quality differentiated agri‐food products are highly competitive, presenting significant challenges for firms aiming to compete effectively. Government agencies and business organizations often implement various export promotion policies to address these challenges.
Nicolás Depetris‐Chauvin +1 more
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DIGINNO SME toolkit:ADVICE FOR DIGITALIZATION IN SMES
, 2020 The DIGINNO SME Toolkit is a hands on tool developed by the DIGINNO project. The aim of the toolkit is to guide and also enable SMEs in the Baltic Sea Region in assessing their digital transformation journey.
Skouby, Knud Erik, Williams, Idongesit
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The digital transformation of SMEs - a new knowledge broker called the digital innovation hub
Journal of Knowledge Management, 2020 Purpose This study aims to understand if and how European digital innovation hubs (DIHs) filling the role of knowledge brokers (KBs) can support the digital transformation (DX) of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) by triggering open innovation ...
A. Crupi +6 more
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Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Social tensions and resource depletion pose significant challenges to the agri‐food sector, highlighting the need for coordinated strategies to ensure sustainability in supply chains. Despite its critical importance, the relationship between coordination mechanisms and sustainability performance remains underexplored.
Carlos Moreno‐Miranda, Liesbeth Dries
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SystemsTechnologies, such as Chat Generative Pre-Trained Transformer (ChatGPT, Smart PLS version 4), are prime examples of Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI), which is a constantly evolving area.
Varun Gupta
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Journal of Business Economics and Management, 2012 Using two step method, namely probit regressions and dynamic estimators, and on the basis of two sub-samples of Portuguese SMEs: 1) 495 young SMEs; and 2) 1350 old SMEs, this study seeks to verify if age is a important factor of the relationships between
Paulo Maçãs Nunes +2 more
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Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The cocoa‐chocolate value chain faces significant environmental and social challenges, driving firms to adopt sustainability strategies ranging from individual practices to third‐party certifications. This study investigates the factors associated with these strategies by analyzing 304 cocoa‐chocolate companies using firm‐level data from the ...
Stella Marschner +3 more
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Industry 4.0 in Latin America: A route for its implementation
Revista Ingenio, 2020 The concept of Industry 4.0 (I4.0) is very recent and its application creates great expectations, although its impact on its results has not been measured. In Europe, the US, and countries in the Far East, large companies are leading their implementation
Edgar Alfonso Chacón Ramírez +2 more
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Access to Finance and Innovation in the Canadian Food Processing
Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Innovation is a presumed channel through which finance affects productivity, yet there is limited research testing the relationship between finance and innovation in the food manufacturing sector. The purpose of the paper is to explore the determinants (e.g., financing, R&D, firm size, expenditure on innovation) of the adoption of innovation ...
Getu Hailu, Deepananda Herath
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