... attained by senior engineering executives with a key economic industrial sector in Germany, as such it is one of few such studies which investigates the link between management education and performance. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2012 Germany Small to medium‐sized enterprises...

... for a sample of European firms, but again size effects were less clear in services than in manufacturing. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2012 Australia Customer service management Small to medium‐sized enterprises Organizational innovation Organizational performance Ambidextrous Service...

... used to reposition. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2010 Innovation Value chain Product positioning Small to medium‐sized enterprises Over the last decade, productivity gaps have increased and manufacturing bases have been eroded in many countries resulting in a drive...

...Brent Snider; Giovani J.C. da Silveira; Jaydeep Balakrishnan Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the critical success factors (CSFs) of enterprise resource planning (ERP) system implementation in small and medium‐sized enterprises (SMEs). Design/methodology/approach Five case...

... 2007 Performance measurement (quality) Small to medium‐sized enterprises Corporate governance Management information systems Organizational culture Research studies indicate that performance measurement systems (PMS) can play a key role in supporting managerial growth in small...

... of this paper. Innovation Performance management Small to medium‐sized enterprises United Kingdom Adegoke Oke can be contacted at: adegoke.oke@asu.edu © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2007 There is no doubt that competitive pressures on UK businesses are increasing, most...

...), “world class manufacturing” and “lean production” (Prado Prado, 2002 ; White and Prybutok, 2001). © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2006 Lean production Ceramics Small to medium‐sized enterprises Business performance Spain Since, the 1980s, numerous businesses in various...

...Harry Boer; Anders Drejer; Simon Mosey Purpose This study aims to understand how small‐ to medium‐sized enterprises (SMEs) can build a dynamic capability for new‐to‐market product development. Design/methodology/approach Five innovative and ambitious case firms were selected and studied...

... from six MTO SMEs in order to develop the model further (Gill and Johnson, 1997). © MCB UP Limited 2003 Make‐to‐order manufacturing Small to medium‐sized enterprises Performance improvement World‐class manufacturing There have been many attempts to build comprehensive models...

... Manufacturing strategy Small to medium‐sized enterprises It is now over 30 years since Skinner (1969) highlighted the strategic importance of manufacturing, pointing out that it is only through their operations that manufacturers can achieve their business objectives. He argued that a firm’s...

... applied a DEA‐based methodology to identify small and medium‐sized enterprises (SMEs) that operate on the frontier of manufacturing flexibility practice. Data were obtained via a questionnaire survey that considered seven basic dimensions of manufacturing flexibility. Subsequently, discriminant analysis...

... forms of manufacture. © MCB UP Limited 2000 Subcontracting Manufacturing Electronics industry Small to medium‐sized enterprises Outsourcing Decision‐support systems The decision processes by which subcontractors are initially selected, and by which they are chosen...

...Raffaella Cagliano; Gianluca Spina; Roberto Verganti; Giulio Zotteri Notes that supporting small to medium‐sized enterprises (SMEs) in their process towards the adoption of business process re‐engineering (BPR) may be essential as the tools and methodologies of BPR were designed for larger...

... attention to the amount of corporate management capacity that can be occupied by global networking issues. © MCB UP Limited 1997 Globalization Lean production Small to medium‐sized enterprises One of the important contributions of the influential book, The Machine that Changed...

...Abby Ghobadian; David Gallear Notes a broad agreement that small and medium‐sized enterprises (SMEs) fulfil a critical role in modern economies, and therefore their ability to survive, remain competitive and produce high quality outputs is of utmost importance at both micro and macro levels...

... subcontractors/large purchaser relationships. © MCB UP Limited 1996 Italy Operations management Small to medium‐sized enterprises Strategic planning Subcontracting Supplier relations Subcontracting is at present undergoing a period of renewed importance: the increase in the incidence...