Small- and Medium-Sized Businesses’ Growth Expectations and Financial Performance in Latvia: Does Ethnicity Matter?

What Types of Small and Medium-sized Businesses Are Utilizing New Financial Products?

The increased diversification of fund rising methods among small and medium-sized businesses has been a major policy challenge in recent years, and private financial institutions are proactively striving to disseminate new financial technologies. However, this does not necessarily mean that every small and medium-sized business benefits from such technologies. It is difficult to analyze this as...

The Effect of Globalization on the Performance of Small- and Medium-Sized Enterprises in the United States: Does Owners’ Race/Ethnicity Matter?

Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs)— i.e., firms with fewer than 500 employees, play an important role in the US economy. SMEs represent 99.9 percent of the 25.8 million businesses and have generated 60–80 percent of net new jobs annually over the last decade. Thus, in order to understand the effect of globalization on the US economy, one has to know how globalization affects SMEs. This p...

IMPACTS AND CHALLENGES OF CLOUD COMPUTING FOR SMALL AND MEDIUM SCALE BUSINESSES IN NIGERIA

Cloud computing technology is providing businesses, be it micro, small, medium, and large scale enterprises with the same level playing grounds. Small and Medium enterprises (SMEs) that have adopted the cloud are taking their businesses to greater heights with the competitive edge that cloud computing offers. The limitations faced by (SMEs) in procuring and maintaining IT infrastructures has be...

Innovation in Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises: A Study of Businesses in New South Wales, Australia

Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises

This is one of three Issue Briefing Notes produced by a partnership of six sustainable development-oriented non-governmental organizations, including three international organizations and three organizations based in developing countries. The Issue Briefing Notes present a general overview of three issues that deserve particular attention in discussions on the possible development by the Intern...