ABSTRACT

Products and services created by small and medium sized organizations account for the vast majority of economic activity across the globe. These organizations will prove vitally important to the emerging and developing economies that will shape future decades.

Small Business Management in Cross-Cultural Environments is one of very few books to take the cross-cultural context as an opportunity to analyse and discuss the key concepts of small firm management in different parts of the world. This textbook covers important topics, such as:

  • the global economic development process
  • entrepreneurship
  • the role of government
  • SME growth and collaborations in a global context.

By explaining how culture shapes and conditions the reality of small businesses and how organizational theories and models fail as management tools, this book fills a significant gap. Supplemented by a compendium of compelling case studies, drawn from across the world, and based upon 25 years of international research by the author, Small Business Management in Cross-Cultural Environments is a useful guide for students and practitioners of SME and International Management

part |111 pages

The Cross-Cultural Sme Environment

part |147 pages

SME Management in a Cross-Cultural Perspective

chapter 6|28 pages

Small Business Growth

Measures and means

chapter 7|28 pages

Managing the Small Firm

Theory and practice

chapter 8|23 pages

The SME Manager's Roles

Strategist, operator and mentor

chapter 11|16 pages

The Small Firm in a Global Context

Opportunities and threats

part |69 pages

Case Studies

chapter 13|12 pages

Alstermo Bruk AB

chapter 14|4 pages

Olympia International

chapter 16|4 pages

Polmarco

chapter 19|2 pages

IE Electronics (Pvt) Ltd.

chapter 20|3 pages

Mandelay Coating

chapter 21|3 pages

Carbex AB

chapter 22|5 pages

Kun Mining Company Ltd.

chapter 23|6 pages

Doradca Consultants Ltd.

chapter 26|3 pages

Sterisol AB