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This article reports on an in‐depth, qualitative study into the pro‐environmental engagement of small businesses in the east of England, with respect to climate change in particular. Managers of environmentally pro‐active small businesses were asked about the pro‐environmental measures they had implemented in their firms, their motivations for doing so, and their understanding of climate change. The managers in this study had a relatively good understanding of environmental issues in general and climate change in particular, and had implemented a range of pro‐environmental measures in their firms. Their understanding of climate change was a holistic one, which sat within their overall understanding of environmental and social issues. While economic arguments and external pressure played a role in their pro‐environmental engagement, perhaps the most notable motivation for managers in this study to engage with environmental and climate change issues was personal values and beliefs. Environmentally engaged managers exhibited an internal locus of control. Some of these findings contrast with the views of key informants in local government and business advice organisations, who tend to emphasise the business case and cost arguments when trying to encourage small businesses towards greater environmental engagement. These findings suggest that public policy and business advice in this area should perhaps focus more strongly on personal values and a sense of being able to contribute to environmental protection in their engagement with small businesses. Copyright © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd and ERP Environment. 相似文献
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Janice Jones 《Asia Pacific Journal of Human Resources》2004,42(1):96-121
The principal objectives in this paper are to compare and contrast training and development initiatives for a longitudinal sample of 871 small and medium‐sized enterprises in the Australian manufacturing sector that have embarked upon different growth development pathways; and to examine possible connections between small and medium‐sized enterprise growth, and training and development. Statistical analysis reveals highly significant differences in management training and qualifications, training changes, as well as training methods, providers and fields, across the low‐, moderate and high‐growth small and medium‐sized enterprise development pathways. Furthermore, training is a relatively consistent concomitant with small and medium‐sized enterprise growth. 相似文献
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中小企业实施环境管理体系的激励因素和障碍 总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1
当今环境问题已日益成为国际社会关注的焦点,企业通过实施环境管理体系将增加企业的市场竞争力。然而,在环境管理中关注更多的是大型企业,对中小企业的研究甚少,本文从中小企业的角度研究他们实施环境管理体系的激励因素和存在的障碍,并对促进我国中小企业采用环境管理体系,提高企业环境绩效提出了相应的对策建议。 相似文献
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改革开放以来,中小企业在我国快速发展,在解决就业、稳定社会、保障民生、促进经济又好又快发展等方面发挥了重要作用。然而,由于中小企业自身抵御风险能力较低和生产经营不规范等原因一直面临着融资难问题。本文分析了中小企业融资现状和制约因素,并提出了解决我国中小企业融资问题的措施。 相似文献
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The impact from corporate business activities on the natural environment and society at large has been in focus for quite some time. The focus has often been on corporate environmental sustainability initiatives reflecting industry's response to concerns expressed by key stakeholders as well as the potential influence on the bottom line and the competitive situation. Much less investigated is the extent to which management itself perceives that corporate environmental initiatives actually lead to positive results. This is the very focus of this research, which is based on data collected by identical surveys of industrial companies in Denmark over a number of years. The results indicate a slightly increasing involvement over time, but also that the level of results achieved is lower than the level of initiatives taken. That is, the reactive attitude reported previously still seems to be prevailing. The results also seem to indicate that the size of the company may have a negative influence in some situations, since smaller companies seems to be better at achieving results compared with medium sized companies. Copyright © 2014 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd and ERP Environment 相似文献
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目前,我国中小企业财务管理中普遍存在一些问题,如管理模式僵化、资金不足等,严重影响企业的成长。通过对这些问题的产生原因进行深入剖析,提出了相应的改善对策,以期中小企业的健康、持续、稳定发展。 相似文献
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在市场经济环境中,由于中小物流企业自身发展不成熟,导致内部控制管理不健全,增加了企业的经营风险,还会影响到企业长远的经济效益。文章从多角度分析中小物流企业内部控制存在的问题,深入探析存在问题的原因,就此提出相应的解决对策。 相似文献
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This paper focuses on the implementation of circular economy (CE) practices in small‐ and medium‐sized firms in all 28 European Union (EU) countries. The analyses take into account the hierarchical nature of the collected data as firms are nested within EU countries, that is, the heterogeneity between different types of firms and countries according to practices and attitudes towards CE. The multilevel latent class model identifies groups of firms and groups of EU countries that are homogeneous in terms of CE, that is, how the homogeneous groups of small‐ and medium‐sized enterprises (SMEs) are distributed across the groups of EU countries. These results, together with the fact that firms with similar CE attitudes and practices have different demographic and business profiles across groups of countries, shed further light on the topic of green behavior in the EU with implications for businesses' environmental policies. Moreover, indications emerge that European policies favoring the implementation of CE practices should be targeted at least for subgroups of European countries, considering the different composition by typology of SMEs operating in their territories and that, at the same time, policies should be defined within each group of countries to account for the specific features of each of the four classes of SMEs. 相似文献
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Prasanta Kumar Dey Chrisovaladis Malesios Debashree De Pawan Budhwar Soumyadeb Chowdhury Walid Cheffi 《Business Strategy and the Environment》2020,29(6):2145-2169
The circular economy (CE) represents a major paradigm shift of moving from the concepts of linear to circular supply chains across multiple industries. Although some aspects of CE adoption within industrial supply chains have been researched extensively (particularly addressing challenges of design, implementation, and operations), the research that relates CE practices with sustainability performance to reveal the current state of CE practices within small and medium‐sized enterprises (SMEs) is scant. The aim of this research was to facilitate SMEs to achieve greater sustainability through CE implementation. This research addresses three research questions—How are CE fields of action related to sustainability performance? What are the issues, challenges, and opportunities of adopting CE in SMEs? And what key strategies, resources, and competences facilitate effective implementation of CE in SMEs? This study adopts a mixed method approach (qualitative and quantitative) using survey research, focus group, and case studies; 130 randomly selected SMEs within the Midlands of the United Kingdom have been surveyed, and the responses are analysed using statistical tools along with findings from focus groups and case studies. The study reveals that all CE fields of action (take, make, distribute, use, and recover) of SMEs are correlated to economic performance, but only make and use are related to environmental and social performance. The study further derives strategies, resources, and competences for achieving sustainability across all the CE field of actions. Additionally, this research reveals the issues and challenges, strategies, resources, and competences required for implementing CE in SMEs. 相似文献
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Ning Wu Kim Hoque Nicolas Bacon Juan Carlos Bou Llusar 《Human Resource Management Journal》2015,25(4):408-423
This article draws on the Organisational Growth and Development (OGD) life cycle model to explore the relationship between high‐performance work systems (HPWS) and performance in firms of different size, thereby extending understanding of congruence or ‘best fit’ theory within strategic HRM debates. With reference to management control theory, economies of scale and the availability of specialist managerial skills, the article hypothesises that while an HPWS–performance relationship might exist in small, medium‐sized and large firms, the relationship will be stronger in large firms than in both small and medium‐sized firms, and stronger in medium‐sized firms than in small firms. Analysis of data from the British Workplace Employment Relations Survey demonstrates, however, that there is no association between HPWS and workplace performance in medium‐sized firms, in contrast to the positive relationship between HPWS and performance found in large firms and between HPWS and labour productivity in small firms. 相似文献
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Enno Masurel 《Business Strategy and the Environment》2007,16(3):190-201
Why do SMEs invest in environmental measures? From the literature we know that most SMEs are rather slow in adopting these sustainable measures, but then the following question arises: why are other SMEs fast in this respect? From our research, it becomes clear that improving the working conditions is the most important reason why these fast‐going SMEs invest in environmental measures, as this probably improves their employees' motivation and performance. This explanation connects ‘planet’ and ‘people’ with each other, and does not exclude ‘profit’, which completes the traditional sustainability circle. Copyright © 2006 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd and ERP Environment. 相似文献
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金融危机背景下我国中小企业融资问题的探讨 总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1
改革开放以来,我国的中小企业大量涌现并迅猛发展。中小企业在国民经济中已占据了举足轻重的地位。但长期以来,我国的中小企业所获得的金融支持却与其贡献极不相称,融资难已经成为制约我国中小企业发展的普遍性问题,特别是在金融危机的背景下这一问题显得更为突出。本文在调查当前我国中小企业融资现状的基础上,分析了我国中小企业融资难的原因,提出了解决当前我国中小企业融资难问题的一些意见和建议。 相似文献
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作为我国民营企业的重要组成部分,民营中小企业的发展状况对我国国民经济全局产生重要影响。对于广大民营中小企业而言,制度对其健康有序发展意义重大。文章阐述了民营中小企业几大突出特征,全面阐述了民营中小企业可持续发展与制度创新策略。 相似文献
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This study investigates the determinants of high‐performance work systems (HPWS) in small and medium‐sized private enterprises (SMPEs) in China. Fifteen SMPE owners in a medium‐sized city of China were interviewed, the data were analysed and a grid model was developed. The results show that stakeholder relationships and the commitment of owners to human resource management (HRM) are the two main aspects determining the adoption of HPWS in China's SMPEs. Most of the HRM practices used by these SMPEs were developed by the owners according to the specific needs of the firm and the need for flexibility. This research contributes to the HPWS literature by providing evidence on its development in SMPEs in a transitional economy. 相似文献
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我国中小型物流企业发展问题研究 总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1
首先对中小型物流企业的背景进行了分析,接着运用SWOT分析的方法指出了中小型物流企业的优势、劣势、机会以及威胁．在此基础上为中小型物流企业如何在现阶段持续健康的发展,如何利用自身优势打造企业发展的核心竞争力．以应对经济全球化下来自国内外愈演愈烈的竞争压力提出了相应的发展对策。 相似文献
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在激烈的市场竞争中,金融和物流企业基于供应链的竞争向客户提供整合服务是一种必然的发展趋势。文中结合华派克国际物流有限公司在金融物流领域的探索,提出物流与金融业要协同发展。 相似文献
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Johan Jansson Jonas Nilsson Frida Modig Gabriella Hed Vall 《Business Strategy and the Environment》2017,26(1):69-83
Ecosystem degradation and social sustainability have become important issues in the corporate sphere during the last few decades. However, research discussing corporate social responsibility and related concepts has often focused on larger companies, sometimes neglecting the specifics of small and medium‐sized enterprises (SMEs). The main purpose of this study is to examine the relationships between two common strategic orientations, market orientation (MO) and entrepreneurial orientation (EO), in relation to sustainability commitment, sustainability practices and management values in SMEs. Questionnaire responses from 450 Swedish SMEs were analyzed, confirming the influence of MO, EO and sustainability practices on commitment to sustainability, implying that firms committed to sustainability see both market and entrepreneurial advantages of sustainability. The results also show that different parts of MO and EO differ in importance for commitment to sustainability among SMEs. Implications concern the importance for firms and policymakers to work with sustainability issues using both internal and external perspectives. © 2015 The Authors. Business Strategy and the Environment published by ERP Environment and John Wiley & Sons Ltd 相似文献
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Despite the proliferation of HRM research, only a small fraction explores the context of small and medium‐sized enterprises (SMEs). Where HRM in SMEs has received attention, the literature base remains fragmented and variable, comprising a plurality of definitions, explanations, and methods. To advance understanding, this paper uses a quarter‐century systematic review drawing on an evidence base of 137 peer‐reviewed articles. A cumulative framework is presented capturing key developments and synthesizing existing areas of research focus. Analysis of limitations and knowledge‐gaps finds a failure to differentiate across various types of SMEs, limited appreciation of SME characteristics and contextual conditions, and a dominance of managerial perspectives. An agenda for future research on HRM in SMEs is outlined with respect to definitional parameters, HR practices, HRM–performance, key determinants, and presenting issues. The paper concludes that SMEs offer a unique, fruitful, and timely context for investigations of HRM. 相似文献
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潘冬;刘东皇;严登才 《经济体制改革》2015,(6):113-118
科技企业孵化器作为科技园区的胚胎,其实施的技术创新服务在降低在孵企业创新风险,维系在孵企业创新意识等方面具有重要作用。本文界定了孵化器技术创新服务的内涵,厘清了孵化器技术创新服务的具体模式;在对现状分析的基础上指出该服务存在的不足:如实施动力匮乏、专业服务人才缺失、创新服务体系不健全等。建议从复合型服务人才培养、引导性政策制定、创新服务链完善等方面优化孵化器技术创新服务的质量和效能,以增强在孵企业的创新潜力。 相似文献