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emailed by using a simple random sampling method to 356 Malaysian manufacturing small and medium –sized Enterprises (SMEs …). The findings of this study show that SMEs in Malaysia are gaining to use virtual teams, and it can be concluded that … virtual teams provide a new platform for developing the business in SMEs. Based on the study, we suggest avenues for future …
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Plug and Play – The Era of Technology Convergence.Emergences of new technologies like Mobile, Cloud and robust payment gateways have enhanced the business models of e-commerce applications. Google pioneered the advertisement based revenue model. Amazon gave a whole new dimension to e-business...
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Innovation has become a central theme and challenge in the literature of entrepreneurship, SMEs management, and … conducive to long-term investments in new business activities. This way, the development of innovation policy in SMEs forms an … approach to entrepreneurship and innovation. In this paper we address the innovation strategies of SMEs engaged in the …
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, the papers included in the book cover the areas of management education primarily dealing with issues of marketing, family …
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Even if today's successful companies operating in the market were start-ups at some time, so far, no consensus could be found, if entrepreneurship is to be understood as an independent research discipline. Should entrepreneurship have its own theory based on generally accepted assumptions and...
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communication technologies (ICTs) in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). To achieve this goal, we employed a novel three … ICT specialists seem to be related to an underuse of ERDF funds dedicated to boosting ICT in SMEs. These findings might be … related to the administrative burden and the lack of ability of SMEs to deal with the various procedures for applying for and …
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Social networks matter in the innovation processes of young and small firms, since lsquo;innovation does not exist in a vacuum (Van De Ven, 1986: 601).' The contacts a firm has could both generate advantages for further innovation and growth, and disadvantages leading to inertia and stagnation....
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We document the presence of multiple and varied constraints to small and medium firm growth. This presents both a practical problem for business training programs and a challenge to academic economists trying to identify mechanisms though which these programs may affect outcomes. External...
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innovative than larger firms. Neither appear SMEs to be a central category of firms in the literature advocating public …, this paper calls for a more critical view regarding policy development targeting specifically SMEs …
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