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- Provides a quick overview on state of the art theory of SME growth and competition in turbulent times
- Presents practical cases and tools how to increase crisis resilience and agility
- Supports readers with an extensive website containing further publications, videos on instruments and SME cases
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Table of contents (18 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
Editors and Affiliations
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Wiesbaden Business School, RheinMain University of Applied Sciences, Darmstadt, Germany
Klaus North
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Dept. of Engineering and Knowledge Mgmt., Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Trindade, Florianópolis - SC, Brazil
Gregorio Varvakis
About the editors
Dr. Klaus North is Professor of International Management at Wiesbaden Business School, Germany. His current research covers knowledge and innovation management in an international context. He has been working for more than 30 years in SME assistance programmes around the world and leads the European-Latin American research project “Dynamic SME - Sustainable competitiveness of SMEs in turbulent economic and social environments.” Together with Gita Kumta (Mumbai) he is the author of the Springer (2014) textbook “Knowledge Management – Creating Value by Organisational Learning”.
Gregório Jean Varvakis Rados, PhD is Professor and Head of postgraduate courses in the Department of Engineering and Knowledge Management at Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, UFSC, Florianópolis, Brasil. He holds a PhD in Manufacturing Engineering from Loughborough University, England. He has been a consultant at McKINSEY LTDA. His research covers Knowledge and service management with special attention to productivity improvement through BPM. He is co-leader of the Dynamic SME project.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Competitive Strategies for Small and Medium Enterprises
Book Subtitle: Increasing Crisis Resilience, Agility and Innovation in Turbulent Times
Editors: Klaus North, Gregorio Varvakis
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-27303-7
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Business and Management, Business and Management (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-27301-3Published: 02 March 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-80112-4Published: 07 April 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-27303-7Published: 19 February 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 281
Number of Illustrations: 26 b/w illustrations, 23 illustrations in colour
Topics: Entrepreneurship, Innovation/Technology Management, Business Strategy/Leadership