the corporate entrepreneurship (ce) of firms and enterprises is the subject of current research in the fields of management and business. however, analyses on this subject in agricultural firms are lacking. the purpose of this research was to study the relationships between corporate entrepreneurship and firm performance in agricultural small and medium-sized enterprises (asmes) in iran. specif...

This study is concerned with the relationship between firm size and High Performance Management Practices (HPMP). The study was conducted in the context of Small & Medium-size Enterprises (SMEs) in the service and manufacturing sector in a Pakistani context, more specifically within Karachi. The primary data was collected through a survey of HPMP and as such the study is quantitative in nature....

the aim of this study was to determine the relationship between entrepreneurial personality characteristics and small and medium-sized sport enterprises start-up (smses). the methodology of this study was descriptive-correlation. population consisted of small and medium-sized sport enterprises (n=1500) and their owners and/or managers were randomly selected as the sample (n=258). for data colle...

the present research was conducted to build a conceptual model of internal effective factors of small and medium enterprises in mazandaran province. to accomplish the goal of the research first, a complete review of the related literature was conducted. second, questionnaires were given to the corresponding population. finally, the gathered data were calculated and analyzed using spss, excel an...

small and medium enterprises development policy by  cluster approach  program is a new method to attempt to industrial development goals in developed and developing country in the world. in the last decades in some of country such as iran concentrate that programmed. industrial development program by cluster approach need some measurable factor for control and assessment. program’s control must...

Small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) are acknowledged worldwide as the drivers of socio-economic development due to their important role in GDP growth, new job creation and entrepreneurship. Despite the immense impact of the most severe economic crisis modern world has witnessed on the SME sector, number of scholarly studies focusing on the investigation of the performance factors of the S...

Abstract: This paper surveys empirical research that shows that small and medium enterprises (SMEs) are more constrained by financing and other institutional obstacles than large enterprises, exacerbated by the weaknesses in the financial systems of many developing countries. We use the concept of the access possibilities frontier to explain how difficulties in managing risk and transaction cos...

Networks are assumed to enhance tourism small firms’ performance and competitiveness. Research indicates that there are different sources of values that could derive from these networks such as cost and time efficiency, quality improvement, flexibility and innovation. However, in most cases, these values are associated to a general framework of what Information Communication Technologies (ICT) ...

The strategic management represents current direction of management. It is applied in all types of enterprises, including small and medium sized ones. Using principles of process management within SMEs has its limitations caused mainly by size of the enterprise and the related focus on operational management. Other specificities are function accumulation, informal leadership, preference for ora...