Managing Small and Medium Firms in a Changing Environment

Managing Small and Medium Firms in a Changing Environment

Edited by Cleopatra Veloutsou

ISBN: 978-960-6672-62-0, 304 pages

First published in 2009 by ATINER

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Table of Contents

List of Contributors
1.	Introduction Veloutsou, C.	1
Section One: Size and the Development of SMEs
2.	A Re-examination of Firm Size in Technology Commercialization: The Canadian Expereince Persaud, A.	7
3.	A Critical Evaluation of Alternative Growth Strategies for SME’s Experiencing the ‘Plateau Effect’ Herdman, W.L.	19
4.	Valve Implications of the Degree of Market Penetration: The Case of Israeli Strart-up Ventures Gavious, I. and Schwartz, D.	33
5.	The Role of Small and Medium Sized Enterprises in Development of Lithuanian Foreign Trade Bernatonyte, D. and Normantiene, A.	55
Section Two: Management and Employment
6.	Technological Innovation, Aggregate Fluctuations and Employment (Hours) Anyalezu, N.K.G.	69
7.	Owner-Managers’ Perspective of Leadership and Management Development: The Case of Indonesian SMEs Suryani, D.Y.	87
8.	A Theoretical Approach for the Use of Experts in SMEs Decaudin, J.M. and Elayoubi, M.	101
9.	Tacit Knowledge Diffusion in Family Business Succession Haldin-Herrgard, T.	109
10.	External Environment and Internal Characteristics of Women Entrepreneurship in China Deng, S., Wang, X. and Xiao, D.	121
11.	Voluntary or Involuntary? Legal and HR Implications for an Occupational Health and Safety Voluntary Code of Practice for SMEs Marshall, V. and Pedigo, K.	137
12.	Why and how SMEs Protect their Innovations Mol, M.C.	149
Section Three: Financial and Accounting Issues
13.	An Investigation into the Impact of Investment Appraisal Techniques on the Profitability of Small Manufacturing Firms in the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan Bay Area of the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa Okubena, O.	165
14.	Development and Financing of Small Enterprises in Rural Areas of Latvia Kantike, I. and Eglite, A.	179
15.	Social Capital and Business Start-up financing in China’s Private Enterprises Huang, Q.	189
16.	SME Accounting Standardization in Europe is a Need? Tiron Tudor, A.	207
Section Four: The Environment and Policy Making for the SMEs
17.	International Virtual Industry Clusters and SME: Some Policy Recommendations Russ, M. and Jones, J.K.	223
18.	Perspectives on Entrepreneurship: The Case of South Africa Ndhlovu, T.P.	239
19.	Issues on Small Business Enterprise of Orang Asli Aborigines in Pahang, Malaysia Jamak, A.B.S.A., Md. Eusof, A.J. and Sivapalan,S.	253
20.	Transistion Paradoxes: Enterprise and Policy does not Promoting its Level in Lithuania Solnyskiniene, J.	267
21.	The Impact of the New Europe on CEE SME’s: A Hungarian Perspective Mayer, C.S.	279
22.	The Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act 2007: Some Implications for Small and Medium Sized Enterprises Dobson, A.	291

List of Contributors