(Credit: Elis Alves, Flickr Creative Commons) The difficulties faced by Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) in getting finance, especially in the developing world, have been well documented. The causes are equally well known. First, traditional bank financing (secured or cash-flow based) is often not available due to the lack of adequate collateral or the opaque...
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Research suggests that small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) can benefit from network collaboration by enhancing opportunities for innovation. Managing the necessary collaboration to benefit from network participation may however be particularly challenging for SMEs due to their size and their inherent shortage of resources. In this paper, we propose that human resource...
Supply chain management (SCM) is an area of increasing importance among enterprises and of growing academic interest (Mentzer and Gundlach, 2010). It is based on the concept of firms as part of multiple organizations oriented to the provision of goods and services for the final customer (Lambert and Cooper, 2000). From this perspective, several studies have verified that...
As a small business owner, are you letting your own ego get in the way of innovative ideas? Unfortunately, too many owners of SMEs fall prey to this syndrome. Especially as we get older, earn our stripes and start to feel like authorities in our industry, it’s easy to start feeling that we know better than the newbies on our team. Go to Source ...
Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in developing countries send and receive all kinds of payments. These microenterprises pay bills, employees, and suppliers; they are paid by customers, middle men, and even governments – often in surprisingly large amounts over long distances. Go to Source Similar Products: Powered by Remittance Markets in Africa...
Abstract Purpose – Emerging clusters, formed by SMEs of slow growth and embryonic management systems, present different competitive advantage scheme. This paper analyses relationships among components of intellectual capital within a model of competitive advantages in emerging clusters SMEs in a region of Latin America. Similar Products: Powered by Unleashing...
