Co-operative production planning for small- and medium-sized enterprises

Business information modeling for process integration in the mold making industry

“…After the evaluation of these systems, most SMEs have expressed concerns that, in addition to some functional mismatches, they cannot afford to have professionals to manage and maintain these kinds of software systems. Similar observations were also identified by the requirement analysis of the planning small-medium enterprise network (PLENT) project in the ESPRIT program carried out by the AMICE consortium [13].…”

Collaborative Networks as a Source of Innovation and Sustainable Competitiveness for Small and Medium Food Processing Enterprises in Indonesia

“…To develop competitivenessability, Small and Medium Enterprises can organize themselves through collaborative networks, paying attention to the variety of actors in their collaboration and finding the optimum solution in facing environmental pressure (Mezgar et al, 2000). According to Kolakovic & Milovanovic (2010), the solution for facing challenges in Small and Medium Enterprises is collaborating with other organizations by building the right collaboration.…”

Determining the antecedents for a strategy of corporate social responsibility by small- and medium-sized enterprises in the UK fashion apparel industry

“…SMEs' inherent resource poverty stems from their limited investment capability due to lack of finances as well as their limitations in terms of human resources (Mezgár et al, 2000;Jones, 2006). However, although SMEs differ from large corporations in terms of their comparative resource disadvantages, they also differ in terms of their behavioural advantages, which Nooteboom (1993, p.287) lists as "entrepreneurial drive and risk taking, motivation and perseverance, motivated labour due to lack of bureaucracy and specialisation, flexibility, proximity of management to customers, proximity of management to the shop floor".…”