Manufacturing enterprises are being forced into greater collaboration with customers and suppliers in order to produce quality products in smaller batches, shorter lead times, and with greater variety. Consequently, the design-for-manufacturing task must be conducted in these virtual and distributed enterprises across traditional organizational boundaries. This paper proposes the use of standar...

The strategic pillars of the GTP II (Growth and Transformation Plan) related to manufacturing include (1) developing light and small manufacturing enterprises that are globally competent and leading in Africa (2) establishing a foundation for further growth of the strategic heavy industries which ultimately enable Ethiopia to become an industrialized country by 2025 (source: GTP II, PP 38). Thi...

Based on a random sample of 500 South Yorkshire non-hi-tech manufacturing small, medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) the quantitative findings support the hypothesis that size, strategic, and market orientation associate with innovation. The results show that prospectors are medium-sized companies and small companies, defenders. Prospectors are more innovative and market-oriented than defenders. Th...

the asia-pacific region generates over half of global economic activity (54.2%) and about 43.7% of global trade, and is the most dynamic region in the global economy. at the core of this is an increasingly dynamic, vibrant and entrepreneurial small-medium sized enterprise sector. advances in information and communications technology, market liberalisation and moves towards closer regional econo...

In this paper, we analyze the dynamics of knowledge spillover entrepreneurship in the Chinese “transitional” context, as a template for the evaluation of the pace and stability of small business innovation institutionalization in many transition economies, and we also provide theory and evidence to further develop knowledge spillover entrepreneurship theory. Based on the first available cross-s...

“Passive” convergence of knowledge and technologies has had an important effect on manufacturing development. Manufacturing enterprises have evolved for the most part as centralized and concentrated urban complexes, primarily driven by the need to minimize manufacturing costs. Examples include the automobile industry of southeastern Michigan and the electronics manufacturing complex in Shenzhen...

Abstract The environment in which manufacturing small and medium enterprises operate has become very complex, therefore SME’s owners need to be aware of the impact their decisions have on society. aim research was identify innovative management accounting practices can integrated into SMEs’ strategies overcome challenge being blamed by stakeholders as contributors social environmental problems....

Malaysian manufacturing has an asymmetrical structure: small and medium-sized enterprises dominate in numbers, but contribute relatively little to total output, employment, and exports as compared to their larger counterparts. In light of an increasingly competitive environment arising from globalization, a sound knowledge of turnover patterns within the sector by plant size and its potential i...

companies is increasingly gaining importance to face emerging challenges in manufacturing. The traditional Computer Integrated Manufacturing (CIM) systems cannot satisfy the needs of global market as they are deployed only within an enterprise. Therefore, a more flexible and comprehensive integrating methodology is required to overcome distance barriers, facility sharing problems and communicat...