.... The purpose of this paper is to establish the influence of entrepreneurial orientation (EO) in business performance (BP) of small and medium-sized enterprises of the manufacturing sector in Mexico. Likewise, it is intended to demonstrate how absorptive capacity (ACAP) allows moderating this important relation...

..., these costs should not be neglected; in some cases, costs can be accurately estimated. Performance management Small to medium-sized enterprises Hybrid approach Business management Cost of quality Manufacturing excellence Marcin Czajkowski can be contacted at: martin.czajkowski@gmail.com...

...Dr Daniela Carlucci; Lara Agostini; Roberto Filippini; Anna Nosella Purpose – The aim of this paper is to investigate the impact of brands on small to medium-sized enterprise (SME) performance in the fashion industry, trying also to shed light on the different effect that corporate...

...Susanne Durst; Stefan Wilhelm Purpose – This paper seeks to propose and discuss a knowledge management tool which has been designed to enable small to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to obtain information about the concentration of relevant knowledge with certain individuals respectively...

... Perception Intangible assets Value analysis Small to medium‐sized enterprises Scotland In today's business landscape organizations are facing different and integrated macro forces that individually and in combination are already shaping the twenty‐first century competitive arena, imprinting...

... Small to medium‐sized enterprises Italy In order to produce and successfully commercialize innovation, firms must synthesize a wide variety of expertise and knowledge produced by different complementary sources (Dosi, 1988 ; Malerba, 1992). Firms' collaboration with external organizations...

...Azizan Abdullah Purpose The purpose of this paper is to contribute to the understanding of total quality management (TQM) practices at the small to medium‐sized enterprise (SME) level within the under‐researched context of the Malaysian economy. Design/methodology/approach...

... could be used by SMEs for their self‐evaluation. Performance measures Organizational performance Small to medium‐sized enterprises Business excellence © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2010 In probability theory and in particular, information theory, total correlation is one...

... as an integrated system. The SPA model followed this, by introducing two important innovations that are: the concept of balanced measures and the use of non‐financial indicators. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2010 Performance measures Performance management Small to medium‐sized enterprises...

...Milind Kumar Sharma; Rajat Bhagwat Purpose Performance measurement in the implementation of information systems is under‐developed for, under‐researched in, small and medium‐sized enterprises (SMEs). This article aims to develop a framework for IS that measures and evaluates IS performance...