An empirical evaluation of barriers hindering the growth of small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) in a developing economy

JO Okpara, JD Kabongo - African journal of business and economic …, 2009 - journals.co.za
… the growth and success of small businesses in Nigeria. A survey method was used to gather
data from 311 small … the factors constraining the growth of small businesses Nigeria. Results …

[PDF][PDF] An empirical evaluation of small and medium enterprises equity investment scheme in Nigeria

A Terungwa - Journal of Accounting and taxation, 2011 - academicjournals.org
… This study empirically evaluates the performance of the Small and Medium Scale Enterprises
(SMEs). Equity Investment Scheme in Nigeria (SMEEIS), using Benue and Nassarawa …

Measuring growth: methodological considerations and empirical results

F Delmar - Entrepreneurship and SME research, 2019 - taylorfrancis.com
… The limitations of the present study is that it is concerned dealing with a small sample of the
growth literature. Only published articles were reviewed, and other publications were left out …

Evaluating Collaborative Planning: Implications from an Empirical Analysis of Growth Management

RD Margerum - Journal of the American Planning Association, 2002 - Taylor & Francis
… The process was also supported by a small unit within the state planning agency. The
committees addressed 15 topic areas including agriculture, nature conservation, and rivers and …

IT and fast growth small-to-medium enterprise performance: An empirical study in Australia

R Bi, RM Davison, KX Smyrnios - Australasian Journal of …, 2015 - scholars.cityu.edu.hk
… Aiming to address understudied issues about IT and fast growth SME performance, this
research develops and empirically tests a hypothesized theoretical model integrating IT …

Evaluating green growth practices: Empirical evidence from China

L Guo, Y Qu, C Wu, S Gui - Sustainable Development, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
… Second, this study relied on a small group of expert committees from the green growth field.
Further research would benefit from including experts from other fields to cover a wider set of …

Empirical evaluation of an integrated supply chain model for small and medium sized firms

T Sakaguchi, SG Nicovich, CC Dibrell - … Management Journal (IRMJ), 2004 - igi-global.com
… As stated previously, our purpose is to create and test a model of supply chain integration
empirically with a theoretical foundation grounded in resource dependency theory and the IT …

Evaluation of the growth function of an empirical forest scenario model

E Thürig, E Kaufmann, R Frisullo… - Forest Ecology and …, 2005 - Elsevier
empirical single-tree model that was developed in Switzerland (MASSIMO). The accuracy
and precision of the growthGrowth of trees smaller than 36 cm DBH was underestimated by …

Empirical evaluation of the improved Rprop learning algorithms

C Igel, M Hüsken - Neurocomputing, 2003 - Elsevier
… In this study, strong empirical evidence is given that the new methods outperform the
original ones in terms of speed. The empirical evaluation makes use of four neural network …

An empirical model to assess the influence of the government's research and development program on Korean small and medium enterprise (SME) performance

J Young Park, S Wook Kim - Asian Journal on Quality, 2010 - emerald.com
… The purpose of this paper is to suggest an empirical model to assess the separate effect
of the government's research and development (R&D) policy program in small and medium …