Portuguese SMEs
The importance of Latin American space in the internationalization of Portuguese SMEs
... of Portuguese SMEs, knowing that there is a scarcity of studies aiming at the analysis of the external economic relations of Portugal with the Latin American space (Silva, 2008), especially if we exclude ...
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E-business Maturity and Information Technology in Portuguese SMEs
... With an increasingly global world and a higher degree of competitiveness, organizations that want to survive the challenges of the market, must be able to adapt themselves quickly to fast changing environments. This ...
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TRUST, ALLIANCE MANAGEMENT CAPABILITY AND THE ALLIANCE MANAGEMENT FUNCTION: A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF PORTUGUESE SMEs
... Therefore, the main purpose of this study was to verify the importance of the alliance manager in terms of trust in the context of Portuguese SMEs, having the latter as unit of analysis. The research ...
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Adjustment in banks’ capital ratios and its effects on Portuguese SMEs
... 18 Portuguese banking institutions, as well as from the 5 main banks in the country, representing approximately 80% of the credit made available during the ...
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Credit Guarantee and the Impact in Financial Structure of the Portuguese SMEs
... usually SMEs suffer from a lack of financing, particularly long term stable funds, is strongly related to information asymmetry (Gregory, Rutherford, Oswald, & Gardiner, 2005; Berger & Udell, 1998; Ang, ...
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International marketing strategy of Portuguese SMEs: case of Casa Ermelinda Freitas
... As it is possible to understand, when entering into new markets, there is a clear lack of knowledge and brand identity in the consumers mind, and in the case of wine products, the already present and strong reputation of ...
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TRUST, ALLIANCE MANAGEMENT CAPABILITY AND THE ALLIANCE MANAGEMENT FUNCTION: A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF PORTUGUESE SMEs
... através das alíneas a) a d). O Estatuto PME Excelência tem a validade de um ano.. 2 - O Estatuto PME Líder é atribuído pelo IAPMEI e pelo Turismo de Portugal, no caso das. empresas do Tu[r] ...
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Bankruptcy prediction models: an analysis for Portuguese SMEs
... the Portuguese context, this is not an exception once the number of insolvencies, mainly for SMEs, has increased due to the hard times experienced in the ...
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A technology diffusion perspective of Enterprise Resource Planning across European Small and Medium Enterprises: from determinants to Use to Value
... There is a great interest among researchers and practitioners in information systems (IS) value. This is particularly important in cases of systems such as enterprise resource planning (ERP), as the use of these systems ...
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Electronic Business Maturity in Portuguese SME and Large Enterprises
... The questionnaire was structured by thematic groups of questions in order to identify the profile of the questionnaire respondents, to characterize the type of organization, to locate each organization at a certain stage ...
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Maturity in management accounting: exploratory study in Portuguese SME
... all Portuguese industrial SME are classified in the same stage of maturity, not allowing for their differentiation; using the proposed new model we are able to differentiate these firms in four stages of ...all ...
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Electronic Business Maturity in Portuguese SME and Large Enterprises
... Since Alreck and Settle (1985), Barnett (1991) and Trigo et al (2007) mentioned that the average for this type of questionnaire is between 5-10%, these response rates can be considered as satisfactory. The questionnaire ...
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Rev. CEFAC vol.15 número6 en v15n6a33
... As to the applicability of direct assessments to meet the individuality of the disabled, considering the fact that there is no ixed correspondence between the type of disabilities and the degree of incapacity, or the ...
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An analysis of German SMEs
... Following the well-known proverb “Necessity is the mother of invention” (The Oxford Dictionary, 2009), crises provide the chance to explore new opportunities to revitalize the economy by developing new innovations ...
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NETWORKING AS A ROUTE FOR CORPORATE FORESIGHT IN SMES
... 8 Corporate Foresight is an emerging research field with growing activities among the scientific community. At least 15 major journal exist which frequently publish articles related to CF; there are at least 10 highly ...
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Internationalization of professional service firms: the case of a Brazilian engineering consultancy company
... Internationalization is an increasingly important subject for many companies and their managers. It is nearly impossible to remain unaware of globalization and its consequences; even if a company decides to remain in its ...
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Rev. contab. finanç. vol.29 número76
... private SMEs’ agency costs on the demand of voluntary audits (Hope, Langli, & Th omas, ...Typically, SMEs show less agency confl icts related to the separation of ownership and management than public, ...
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Práticas de gestão e destinação dos recursos financeiros em Secretarias Municipais da Educação e escolas públicas municipais de ensino fundamental: um estudo multicaso
... O instrumento de pesquisa foi a entrevista semiestruturada em con- junto com a análise documental. As entrevistas foram agendadas de acordo com a disponibilidade dos usuários. Durante o período foi feita uma visita às ...
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Motivating the Stakeholders, a Feature of SMEs
... The company's distributors and clients, the managers and the employees, the service suppliers, condition, by their decisions and actions the level of the sales. Cultivating the relations with then and from that ...
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