This paper seeks to shed light on certain major aspects of public policy and the performance of business enterprises in India. First, it highlights the effectiveness of the public policies pursued and their asymmetric effects on corporate governance and performance of multinational and local enterprises in India. Second, it suggests that the so called ‘threat’ of large scale disruption of local...

privatization is a process in which the ownership of governmental economic enterprises is transferred to private sector. according to other countries’ experiences and discussed economic theories over the past decades, privatization has improved the performance of companies and economic enterprises. in this study, financial ratios of companies were used as their performance indicators. this pape...

the purpose of this paper is to improve supply chain relationships in iranian small and medium-sized enterprises (smes) in automotive parts industry. for this reason, an importance-performance analysis (ipa) has been employed to categorized supply chain relationships metrics. also, the questionnaire method is used for gathering information. the paper identified thirteen supply chain relationshi...

BACKGROUND This study was conducted with aim of providing an overview of the current status of occupational health services and identifying the most common harmful agents at workplaces of Iranian self-employed enterprises (Nano-Scale Enterprises). METHODS A cross-sectional study was performed among a random sample including 1,758 employees engaging in self-employed enterprises with 5 and less...

The use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) by Small and Medium Sized Enterprises (SMEs) have the potential to enable these businesses to grow through access to new markets and administrative efficiencies. However, the growth of the smallest of these SMEs which are micro-enterprises is hindered by their inability to adopt ICTs effectively to achieve competitive advantage. This ...

Non-farm household enterprises are important for a number of reasons to do with poverty and employment creation. They could either be the first unit of microentrepreneurship or a coping strategy for the poorest. Either way, over 11 percent of India’s prime working age population is self-employed in these enterprises. Moreover, they are important also because they are most likely to be informal ...

Along with the intensification of global competition and the complexity of manufacturing products, cooperation among enterprises becomes more intimately, and the range of quality control extends from internal to the external enterprises. Consequently, previous quality control methods for internal enterprise have been difficult to meet the demands of extended enterprises. To effectively realize ...

Latin American economy is growing fast and national enterprises are looking for new ways of improving their competitive position against international firms, specially Small and Medium Enterprises. The concept of Virtual Enterprises can be a new way to do business and exploit business opportunities for these companies. In this report we will discuss the Framework for Virtual Enterprises develop...

Over the past few years, many commentators have suggested that the Internet is one of the forces driving globalization. This paper tries to assess one aspect of these claims, looking at whether Internet access appears to affect the export performance of enterprises in lowand middle-income economies in Eastern Europe and Central Asia. The papers finds that even after controlling for self-selecti...

This paper is concerned with the permanence and extinction problem of enterprises cluster constituted by m satellite enterprises and a dominant enterprise. We present the model involving impulsive effect based on ecology theory, which effectively describe the competition and cooperation of enterprises cluster in real economic environment. Applying comparison theorem of impulsive differential eq...