.... 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...

... Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Performance management Small to medium-sized enterprises Hybrid approach Business management Cost of quality Manufacturing excellence Despite a slow recovery of the global economy from the 2008 credit crunch, markets are still very unstable...

...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...

... of value, value creation and value management. Stakeholders Perception Intangible assets Value analysis Small to medium‐sized enterprises Scotland © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2011 Most of the academic and managerial debate interprets organizational success...

... industry 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...

...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...

..., organizational culture, resources and skills, and structure and systems of organizations are found to affect organizational creativity (Andriopoulos, 2001). Performance measures Organizational performance Small to medium‐sized enterprises Business excellence © Emerald Group Publishing Limited...

... management Small to medium‐sized enterprises Literature The proposed classification highlights a certain maturity of PMM literature related to large companies, and it evidences a ten of models that are considered appropriate for managing PMM initiatives since based on an integrated approach...

...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...