Managing the Development of SMEs

Edited by Cleopatra Veloutsou

ISBN: 960-6672-02-6, 200 pages, Hardback
First published in 2006 by ATINER

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Table of Contents

 

 

List of Contributors

 

vii

 

Introduction

Cleopatra Veloutsou

ix

 

 

 

Part I : Current Issues on Education

 

 

1.

SME Sector – Promoter for Sustainable Economic Development: A Case Study of Romania

Petru Stefea and Marilen Pirtea

 

1

2.

Testing “Gibrat’s Law” for Small Firms: Empirical Evidence from Kosova

Besnik Krasniqi

 

17

3.

A Measurement of Competitiveness for North Cyprus Manufacturing Industry

Sevin Ugural, Gulcay Tuna, Mustafa Tümer and Cagay Coskuner

 

27

4.

Enhancing Competitive Advantage in Irish Small-to-Medium Hospitality Enterprises through Training and Development Opportunities

Maria Ryan

 

41

5.

Human Capital Appraisal as a Major Stake for the Success of Post Modern Societies in Europe

David Mérieau

 

59

6.

Higher Education and Greek Labour Market Linkages: A Manager’s Perspective

Niki Kyriakidou

 

73

7.

Organisational Learning: Engaging SME Cluster for Sustainable E-Learning

Jacques Digout and Peter Harizanov

 

87

8.

Technology, Organizational Change and Job Insecurity: The Situation in Turkey

Barış Baraz and Ayhan Tözer

 

105


9.

Technologies and Creativity Support Systems in SMEs

Claudio A. Garavelli, Michele Gorgoglione and Cosimo Palmisano

 

125

10.

Small Pharmacies Vs. Hypermarkets: What Kind of Competition we will Get, After Pharmacies Loose the Monopoly of Selling Not Prescribing Drugs?

Cláudia Filipa Gomes Cardoso

 

141

 

11.

Why Geographically Concentrated SMEs do not Follow a Cooperative Strategy?

Katia A. Figueroa Rodriguez

 

153

12.

Can Recommending a Competitor Appropriately Benefit a Firm?: A Qualitative Industry Analysis for Approaches in Customer Advocacy as Influence on Enterprise Success

John Siambanopoulos

 

169

13.

Emerging Issues of the Accounting Regulation for SMEs in the Czech Republic

Ladislav Mejzlik and Jiri Pelak

183