As the European Union (EU) and its Member States face the pressures of recession, ongoing global competition and the challenges of implementing a new knowledge economy, improving the capabilities and participation of the huge small and medium enterprise (SME) sector is vital. This is particularly true of the microfirms (less than 10 employees) that account for 93 per cent of the EU’s 25 million...

Strategic planning is a vital management tool for projecting the long-range business goals and is not only for big businesses, but also applicable to small businesses in spite of their limited resources. To do this effectively, organizations should determine their strengths and weaknesses. Organizations have to produce appropriate action plans to overcome these weaknesses and it is very importa...

With the rapid development of modern Chinese companies, small-and-medium companies play a more and critical role. At same time, competition among SMEs is also intensifying. This paper proposes significance lean management under current enterprise through introduc-tion management, how it affects innovation, case analysis manufacturing SME. The includes quality process improvement, waste eliminat...

Despite the high prevalence of cybercrime victimization among businesses, only few these crimes are reported to police. This study used a sample 529 Dutch small- and medium-sized enterprise (SME) owners, examine which characteristics offence, SME, SME owner predict reporting behaviors. Moreover, motives either report police or not were examined. All respondents shown three vignettes about ficti...

The way of perceiving the environment is the factor informing on the condition of the environment and its impact on the operation of enterprises whereas the impact on the operation is the factor determining how enterprises operate in realities where there is no place for atomized actions of isolated enterprises and the impact of the environment and relationships with its constituents and all fo...

Much of the existing literature in small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) finance surveys the impact of borrower and lender characteristics on firms’ credit availability, and it has already been established that there is a positive link between the strength of firm-bank relationship and the level of credit availability. In this paper, I focus on what determines the strength of relationship, me...