Trading Places – SMEs in the Global Economy

Edited by Lester Lloyd-Reason and Leigh Sear

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Abstract: Lester Lloyd-Reason and Leigh Sear bring together leading researchers and thinkers in this critical guide to the ongoing, worldwide research shaping the role played by SMEs within today’s global economy. The expert contributors contend that the past twenty years have seen an explosion in research into international SMEs, resulting in a considerable body of academic literature and thinking. This research, they argue, may merely serve to increase our lack of understanding in this area, and often results in myths and misconceptions upon which SME policies and support programmes have been developed and introduced.

Keywords: Business and Management (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: M4 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2007
ISBN: 9781845420390
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Chapters in this book:

Ch 1 Introduction: The Role of SMEs in the Global Economy

Lester Lloyd-Reason and Leigh Sear

Ch 2 Doing Business: The Nature of Global Trading

Alan Griffiths, Stuart Wall and Carsten Zimmermann

Ch 3 Traditional and Emergent Forms of Global Trading

Leo Dana, Hamid Etemad and Richard Wright

Ch 4 Trade Trends in Transatlantica: A Profile of SMEs in the United States and Europe

Leslie E. Palich and D. Ray Bagby

Ch 5 Entrepreneurs and their Personal and Business Relations: Shaping Manufacturing SMEs’ Global Strategy

Telma Barbosa and Ted Fuller

Ch 6 Managing with Complexity, Uncertainty and Ambiguity

Keith Herrmann

Ch 7 Managing the Global Operation

Tim Mazzarol

Ch 8 Skills and Knowledge Needs of the Global SME

Terry Mughan and Lester Lloyd-Reason

Ch 9 Competitive Intelligence and the Global SME

Jonathan Calof and Paul Dishman

Ch 10 The Choreography of Internationalisation: Innovative Forms of Learning and Activities of Small and Medium-sized Enterprises in International Markets

Jay Mitra

Ch 11 Foresights, Futures and Scenarios for the Global SME

Stuart Smith

Ch 12 SMEs in the Global Economy: Policy Perspectives

Leigh Sear and Lester Lloyd-Reason

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