Product Description: Lester Lloyd-Reason and Leigh Sear bring together leading researchers and thinkers in this critical guide to the ongoing, worldwide research shaping the role played by SMEs within today's global economy. The expert contributors contend that the past twenty years have seen an explosion in research into international SMEs, resulting in a considerable body of academic literature and thinking...read more

Product Description: Competitiveness is one of the key themes in the debate about national economic performance. This book suggests that awareness of the impacts of the neglected dimension of the organizational and cultural characteristics which underpin production and trade can, together with appropriate corrective action, significantly improve corporate and national performance...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)