Small enterprises development stability analysis conceptual framework

Development of a Best Practices Framework for New Product Development in Small to Medium Enterprises

Leadership Development in Small and Medium Enterprises

This paper reports the outcomes of a two-phase investigation into leadership development in SMEs in the South West of England that aimed to devise an educational programme matched specifically to their needs. Phase One aimed to determine the demand for leadership development in SMEs in the Region by means of face-to-face interviews with 20 SME directors and was supported by interviews with lead...

New Product Development in Small Food Enterprises

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate how small businesses may deploy a formalised Stage-Gate approach to new product development (NPD). The original Stage-Gate framework was modified to better suit a small business B2B environment in the seafood industry, and was subsequently applied to a small vertically-integrated crab catching, processing and marketing business. Design/metho...

analysis of the mechanisms of small and medium enterprises (smes) development in qazvin province

the main purpose of this study was to identify and analyze the mechanisms of small and medium enterprises (smes) development in qazvin province. the study is an applied quantitative research. the data was collected using a descriptive-survey method. the statistical population of the study consisted of managers in charge of smes in qazvin province.  93 people were selected as the sample by using...

Systems Development Method Rationale: A Conceptual Framework for Analysis

The rationale of their creators inherently influences information systems development methods. Rationale, which is always based on the creator’s values and assumptions about the problem domain, motivates, implicit or explicit, the different modelling activities and primitives prescribed by a method. The method, and hence its inherited rationale, directs method users’ attention toward certain ki...