[PDF] Top 20 Globalisation and the Portuguese SMES

... Within this context, the purpose of this paper is to characterise the importance of SMES in overall economic activity (part 1), to study their role in export oriented sectors and the evi[r] ... See full document

... process and constantly restructure their operations to meet the requirements of national but, most of all, international ...in the long ...for and acquiring new skills, resources and ... See full document

... Regarding the impact of size on performance, the literature points to the fact that size can be a source of competitive advantage because larger firms have at their disposal greater technical ... See full document

... managed the first part of the crisis pretty well mainly because of their lack of exposure to toxic assets such as subprimes (European Commission, ...However, the Portuguese banking system had ... See full document

... as the best proposal presented is concerned, it is necessary to adapt the business to customer and market in many times according to two ...First, SMEs should analyse the market ... See full document

... samples, the probability of each case being select from the total population is not known and it is impossible to answer research questions or to address objectives that require to make statistical ... See full document

... presented the dependent and independent variables computation and the econometric methodology used in order to test our empirical hypotheses for both countries during 4 different periods, ... See full document

... in the answers from our interviewees. Although some of the factors that contributed to develop a resilient organizational climate are from a strategic and financial level, most of them announced by ... See full document

... – the moderating effect of age on internationalization – means that the positive impact of internationalization on performance is greater for young- er firms, that is, those firms seem to be in a better ... See full document

... diversification and leverage, we fail to obtain any significant relation, a result also obtained by Low and Chen ...replacing the variables XOE and XIE by dummy variables characterizing ... See full document

... 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 ... See full document

... interesting and significant results like the positive, although small ...LEV and DMT at the 1% significance level consistent with the findings of several empirical work like Stohs ... See full document

... problems and makes it difficult to supervise, a positive relationship is expected between ownership concentration and corporate ...Shleifer and Vishny (1986) refer to the important role played ... See full document

... produces and sells fruits mainly for export markets. The firm was established in 2013 and had an international orientation from inception, with high export ...intensity. The firm’s export ... See full document

... procedures, and histories, which are reconstructed ...reinforces the idea of multi-party action, an action through which we can, for example, explain one phenomenon or event as a physi- cal entity, ... See full document

... on the topic of internationalization of SME’s espe- cially in recent years (Karagozoglu & Lindell, 1998; Pangarkar, 2008; Prater & Ghosh, 2005), but studies on the Portuguese situation are ... See full document

... in the same hotel. We dine together, and normally we will also be with the Portuguese authority that led the Mission, as well as local ...with the Portuguese Deputy Prime ... See full document

... machinery and equipment sector Portuguese SME (about 20 employees) participated in the ...firms and R&D institutions, had good knowledge about another Portuguese firm of a different ... See full document

... employees and the sales value. The interaction variable is included to understand whether among the GSVC funded SMEs the pre-funding growth rate helps predicting post-funding ... See full document

... 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] ... See full document