Internet technologies are increasingly being adopted by UK businesses to facilitate collaboration, trade, learn, manage company business processes and deliver services. Large companies are reaping the benefits of such technologies, but few manufacturing small to medium enterprises (SMEs), which account ...
SMEsThe purpose of this study is to investigate empirically the impact of capital structure on firm performance. This study examined the impact of capital structure on firm performance of manufacturing sector SMEs in UK for the period of 1998-2008. The authors hypothesize that there is a negative...
Originality/value – This paper reports the first study on the status of six sigma implementation in UK SMEs. The paper will yield a great value to academics, consultants, researchers and practitioners of six sigma.doi:10.1108/02656710510617265...
UK manufacturing SMEsPurposeThis paper aims to assess the impact of 2008 recession (Great Recession)-led environmental turbulence on the manufacturing small and medium enterprise (SME) sector and its related competitive priorities.Design/methodology/approachA mixed methods research strategy, consisting of ...
“The need for highly specialised skill sets limits the design, implementation, and maintenance of automation,” Lohse continues. “Specialised equipment is often too inflexible particularly for SMEs with modifications being either too expensive or impractical. People and automation are separated ...
"By bringing all these digital technologies together we allow the Omnifactory® as a concept to be implemented in small facilities, small footprint facilities almost anywhere in the world, and they contribute directly to local economy and local supply chains. By all means, SMEs will benefit ...
Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) cumulatively cause 64% of total industrial pollution, and contribute approximately 60-70% of the total industrial waste in the EU. However, only 24% of SMEs in the EU are currently acting to reduce their environmental impact and only 0.4% of them implement...
Formal Strategic Planning, Operating Environment, Size, Sector and Performance: Evidence from the UK's Manufacturing SMEs The relationship between strategic planning and firm performance has long interested strategic management researchers. In the past decade, this research ef... Abby,Ghobadian,Nicholas...
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Thai firms must be dynamic, innovative and efficient if they are to flourish in a competitive and increasingly integrated regional and global economy. The major aims of this study are: 1) to estimate and compare the level of technical efficiency performance of Thai manufacturing SMEs in the pre...