Cash Conversion Cycle and Profitability of Nigerian Small and Medium-Sized Entities: An Empirical Analysis

An Empirical Investigation of the Cash Conversion Cycle of Small Business Firms

Risk determinants of small and medium-sized manufacturing enterprises (SMEs) - an exploratory study in New Zealand

The smooth running of small and medium-sized manufacturing enterprises (SMEs) presents a significant challenge irrespective of the technological and human resources they may have at their disposal. SMEs continuously encounter daily internal and external undesirable events and unwanted setbacks to their operations that detract from their business performance. These are referred to as ‘disturbanc...

Determinants of Profitability: An Empirical Investigation Using Australian Tax Entities*

This paper uses a sample of 180,738 tax entities from the full Australian Tax Office (ATO) tax return data to investigate the determinants of profitability. The sample of Australian tax entities are averaged over the period 1994/95 to 1996/97. Analysis is carried out at a 3 digit ANZSIC level of classification. Using simple regression techniques the analysis suggests that size of entity is posi...

Manufacturing flexibility and business strategy: An empirical study of small and medium sized firms

This study investigates the practice of manufacturing flexibility in small and medium sized firms. Using the data collected from 87 firms from machinery and machine tool industries in Taiwan, we analyzed and prescribed the alignment of various manufacturing flexibility dimensions with business strategies. Several practical approaches to developing manufacturing flexibility in small and medium s...

Business Process Digitalization and New Product Development: An Empirical Study of Small and Medium-Sized Manufacturers

Over the past decades, the rapid developments of the Internet and the information technologies have profoundly impacted every aspect of organizational and social activities. Many business organizations, including small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), have started to adopt business process digitalization (hereafter “BPD”) as a tool to gain market and operational efficiency (e.g., BarNir, Ga...