Purpose: This study sought to establish the effect of strategic resources on performance small and medium manufacturing enterprises. Specifically, identify how financial resources, human physical intellectual capital affect enterprises in Kenya. Methodology: Positivism research philosophy was utilised. Cross-sectional descriptive survey as well explanatory design were used study. The target pop...

Since the economic transition, manufacturing in China has undergone profound changes not only in number of enterprises, but also in ownership structure and intra-urban spatial distribution. Investigating the changing manufacturing landscape from the perspective of ownership structure is critical to a deep understanding of the changing role of market and government in re-shaping manufacturing lo...

This study investigates the determinants of access to finance among manufacturing micro, small and medium enterprises in Nigeria (MSMEs). uses enterprise survey dataset conducted by World Bank between April, 2014 February, 2015. A robust logistic regression model has been applied for a sample 507 MSMEs achieve this study's objective. The results indicate that is largely influenced owner/manager...

Global competition and rapidly changing customer requirements are demanding increasing changes in manufacturing environments. Enterprises are required to constantly redesign their products and continuously reconfigure their manufacturing systems. Traditional approaches to manufacturing systems do not fully satisfy this new situation. Many authors have proposed that artificial intelligence will ...

The era of Industry 4.0 is characterized by the use new telecommunications ICT technologies and networking economy. This results in changes both way businesses operate customer expectations products offered on market. modern has made it possible to create cyber-physical systems based intelligent machines devices that communicate with each other real time allow integration resources from differe...