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Competitive Advantage in SMEs draws on up-to-date empirical evidence to illustrate how SMEs can become more innovative through the introduction of new products and services. Discusses the effective and efficient use of information technology by broadening management skills and knowledge.
Oswald Jones is Professor of Innovation and Entrepreneurship at Manchester Metropolitan University. Fiona Tilley recently left Manchester Metropolitan University to join the School of the Environment at Leeds University as Lecturer in Environment and Business.
Biographies Preface 1 Introduction: SMEs, Policy and Competitiveness (Fiona Tilley and Jane Tonge). Section 1 General Management Issues 2 Competitive Advantage in SMEs: Towards a Conceptual Framework (Oswald Jones). 3 Strategic Management for Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (SMEs) (Alan Marsden and Carole Forbes). 4 Corporate Governance for Competitive Advantage in SMEs (Richard Warren). 5 Sustainability and Competitiveness: Are There Mutual Advantages for SMEs? (Fiona Tilley, Paul Hooper and Liz Walley). Section 2 Managing People 6 Human Resource Management: Managing People in Smaller Organisations (Scott Taylor, Sue Shaw and Carol Atkinson). 7 Employee Share Ownership in SMEs (Andrew Pendleton). 8 Managing Creativity and Competitive Advantage in SMEs: Examining Creative, New Media Firms (Mark Banks, Meg Elliott and Julia Owen). 9 Innovation in SMEs: Intrapreneurship and New Routines (Oswald Jones ). 10 Network Capability: The Competitive Advantage of Small Firms (David Taylor and Krsto Pandza). Section 3 Functional Management 11 The Adoption of e-business Technologies by SMEs (Paul Windrum and Pascale de Berranger). 12 Supply Chain Management: Improving Competitive Advantage in SMEs (Allan Macpherson and Alison Wilson). 13 Sustaining Viability in SMEs: Perspectives on Innovation in Financial Management (Bob Sweeting, Tony Berry and Jitsuo Goto). 14 Retail and Services Marketing (Steve Baron). 15 Conclusion: The Search for Competitive Advantage (Oswald Jones and Fiona Tilley). Index.
David K. Jones, Boston University School of Public Health) Jones, David K. (Assistant Professor, Health Law, Policy & Management, Assistant Professor, Health Law, Policy & Management, JONES, Jones
Alex S. Jones, Harvard University) Jones, Alex S. (Director of the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy, Kennedy School of Government, Director of the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy, Kennedy School of Government, JONES, Jones
JONES, Jones, Ward Jones, Samantha Vice, Rhodes University) Jones, Ward (Associate Professor in Philosophy, Associate Professor in Philosophy, Rhodes University) Vice, Samantha (Senior Lecturer in Philosophy, Senior Lecturer in Philosophy
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