Download or read book Dynamism Among the Japanese Small and Medium Manufacturing Enterprises and Its Implications for Development of Manufacturing SMEs in Kenya written by Agola Nathaniel Oluoch and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Small and Medium Sized Enterprises in Japan written by Yanhui Zhang and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2005-05-19 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2003 in the subject Business economics - Offline Marketing and Online Marketing, grade: 1,0, University of Northampton, language: English, abstract: Japan is the second largest industry nation in the world. At the end of World War II Japan was in ruins and lagged far behind the industrialized and experienced western nations. However, it has managed to compete against almost all other countries in relatively short time without any appreciable help. The small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) as the main corporation form have played a crucial role for the country’s miracle and development of the modern economy after the war, as large companies were all destroyed, people have lost their livelihood and world markets were shrinkage. Today, the small and medium-sized enterprises are still serving as the driving and dominant force for the domestic economy. According to JETRO (2002), the total number of small and medium-sized enterprises in Japan are 6.51 million, which represent 99.1 % of the total businesses (excluding primary industry); SMEs’ contribution amounts to 81% of the total employment (excluding employment in the prime industries), 51.7% of the total shipment of manufacturing industry, 61% of the total sale in the whole sale and 78% in the retail. Clearly, the growth of the Japanese SMEs depends on several success factors, such as technologies, marketing skills, capital funds and effective resource management in the last four decades (Ohmea, 1982). However, some western countries like U.K. and France were using the same development strategy as Japan after the World War II, and their economies still declined dramatically competing with Japan. Therefore, there must be some special influential factors in the Japanese companies that are totally different from western models. This paper focuses mainly on the socio-cultural development of SMEs in Japan with typical Japanese characteristics and analyses the influential yet distinguishing success factors and their implications for the Japanese SMEs. The paper will further approach the socio-cultural disadvantages of the existing systems and the government roll for Japanese SMEs and draw conclusion in the last section.
Download or read book Productivity Drag from Small and Medium Sized Enterprises in Japan written by Mariana Colacelli and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 2019-07-01 with total page 21 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Productivity growth in Japan, as in most advanced economies, has moderated. This paper finds supportive evidence for the important role of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in explaining Japan’s modest productivity growth. Results show a substantial dispersion in firm-level productivity growth across sectors and even across firms within the same sector. SMEs, on average, exhibit lower productivity growth than non-SMEs in Japan, with smaller and older SMEs showing particularly low productivity growth. Estimates suggest that boosting productivity growth in all of the worst-performing SMEs could improve overall productivity growth by up to 1.8 percentage points. The SME credit guarantee system, SME financing constraints, demographic factors, and lack of intangible capital investment are discussed as contributors to the slow productivity growth of Japan’s small and old SMEs.
Download or read book The Effect of Taxation on the Growth of SMEs written by Janesther Gathigia and published by . This book was released on 2011-11 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Dynamism of Japanese Entrepreneurs Turbulence Productivity and Innovation written by Akihiro Yoshikawa and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Entry of Small and Medium Enterprises and Economic Dynamism in Japan written by Hiroki Kawai and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 13 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book White paper on small and medium enterprises in Japan written by Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry. Small and Medium Enterprise Agency and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Small Firm Dynamism in East Asia written by Farrukh Iqbal and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2002-05-31 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a collection of papers which examine the evolution of small and medium enterprises (hereafter SMEs) in East Asia over the past quarter century or so. East Asia is of interest because this region has experienced, on average, the highest economic growth rates in the world during this period. This has been accompanied by dramatic transformations in sectoral output and employment, in patterns of domestic and international trade and in demographic flows within countries. It is of interest to see to what extent these transformations have affected, or have been influenced in turn by, industrial structure as reflected in the evolution of small firms. At the same time, not all countries in East Asia have grown at similar rates nor has there been uniformity in public policies across the region. So there is a background of diversity in both performance and policy. How smaller firms have coped with the different policy environments and patterns of economic transformation that have characterized the region in the recent past could be potential importance to the formulation of public policy in other developing countries. Small firms are important instruments for economic development. This book examines the factors that influence their evolution and performance.
Download or read book Structural Change in Japanese Society and the Dynamism of Small and Medium Enterprises written by Nobutaka Kengaku and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Global Perspectives on Small and Medium Enterprises and Strategic Information Systems International Approaches written by Bharati, Pratyush and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2010-04-30 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) play a critical role in rejuvenating and sustaining the modern economy, generating substantial employment and serving as important innovation engines for the global economy. Global Perspectives on Small and Medium Enterprises and Strategic Information Systems: International Approaches aims to spread research conducted on SMEs internationally and place it at the disposal of academics, practitioners, consultants, the vendor community, and policymakers. The goal of this book is to highlight the challenges faced by SMEs and how they are coping with the adverse environment through skillful use of IT and technologies such as Web 2.0, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), e-commerce, open source software, Business Process Digitization (BPD), and other emerging technologies.
Download or read book International African Bibliography written by and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Effect of External Environmental Factors on the Performance of Small to Medium Enterprises in Kenya MBA Thesis a Ccompanied by a CD ROM written by and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The objective of the study was to analyse the effect of external environmental factors on the performance of small to medium size enterprises. The study was guided by research questions, which sought to find out what effect political, regulatory, market issues and infrastructure had on the performance of small to medium sized enterprises in Kenya. The research adopted a descriptive research design where the population of interest was SMEs in the manufacturing and service industries in Kenya. The design using questionnaires was deemed appropriate because the main objective was to establish the main factors affecting the performance and growth of SMEs in Kenya. The study adopted stratified random sampling, with the strata being the type of business. Proportional allocation was used to determine the number in the sample from each stratum. The study sample was 88 respondents, with proportionately allocated strata of services at 56 and those in manufacturing were 32. The elements in each stratum were obtained using simple random sampling. The researcher used a questionnaire as a primary data collection instrument. The questionnaire was designed in consultation with the research supervisor and other colleagues. The questionnaire was divided into sections, each representing the different variables adopted for study. The analysed findings of the study observe that SMEs in Kenya face external environmental challenges as follows: Political factors affect the performance of small to medium size enterprises. The key factors based on the collected data were extracted and political unrest or demonstrations, stood out as key factors affecting the performance of SMEs. Regulation issues were also found to have a significant effect of the performance of SMEs. The current tax system was viewed as a tedious and complex process presenting compliance challenges to some of the small businesses. Lack of belief in the court system was a factor, and, the underdeveloped regulation policies according to respondents had a direct impact on the state of the underdeveloped infrastructure and low levels of information available to their businesses. In regards to marketing issues the challenge of there being an inadequate market for their products affected business growth. This challenge was further compounded by the fact that respondents found it difficult to search for or access new markets. Infrastructure issues, specifically the unpredictable power availability patterns caused a multiple effect on small to medium sized enterprises. Water interruptions and inefficiencies stood out as key challenges especially for SMEs in manufacturing and catering services. Transport infrastructure and services also provided a glaring challenge to SMEs. The performance of the enterprises was also analysed to help measure the performance and growth of the enterprise. In terms of sales, low growth was recorded, other performance indicators such as growth in number of employees and profit showed similar performance to the previous year and minimal growth respectively. When testing the objective of the study, it was noted that an increase of various factors had a positive effect on the performance of the enterprise with the exception of the extracted political issues which had a negative effect on SMEs as indicated in the survey model. Generally the study looked into a number of challenges facing SMEs in Kenya and found that to surmount the challenges, they would need to be addressed by all stakeholders involved. Academic and research institutions would need to ensure continuous research specifically tailored for SMEs to develop and update best practice standards, and also help develop predictive models that help small businesses avert challenges presented by the unpredictable nature of the external business environment. The study came up with recommendations and among them, a complete review of policies that govern SMEs to ensure regulations assist in their growth. The design of a conceptual model for quality integrated SME management for SMEs in Kenya and Africa as a whole was also recommended as part of the effort to manage the familiar political unrest that follow election periods and also to ensure managerial and financial health of SMEs. Recommendations were also made that SMEs engage actively in building their markets through formation of alliances that would allow them to extend their reach without incurring very high overheads, and to take advantage of business development services from the government to help enhance their institutional capacity, adaptive capacity and also the developmental capacity of the businesses to ensure they can withstand environmental shocks.
Download or read book Innovation and Business Dynamism in Japan and Korea written by Kenji Kojima and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Performance of Japan s Small and Medium scale Enterprises and Its Implications to Indonesian Small Enterprises written by Susumu Hondai and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book White Paper on Small and Medium Enterprises in Japan written by and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Role of Small and Medium Manufacturing Enterprisese in Japan s Economic Development written by Hariri Hady and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Growth and Decline of Small and Medium sized Enterprises in Japanese Manufacturing Industries written by Hiroshi Teraoka and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
