[EN] Purpose: This paper presents a multi-objective programming model for selection of Projects for Financing New Enterprise SMEs in Colombia with objectivity and transparency in every call. Approach: The model has ...

[EN] The importance of collaboration has increased in supply networks; and thus, the number of so called non-hierarchical manufacturing networks (NHN). When establishing collaborative processes appear a number of barriers ...

[EN] Internet technologies are increasingly being used within all knowledge management processes, including knowledge acquisition, knowledge exchange and knowledge use. Although technological issues are key drivers for ...

[EN] Addressing SMEs, studies about management innovation are scarce and traditionally disconnected from works on technological innovation. This paper’s research question explores whether technological innovators benefit ...

[EN] Within the line of research in entrepreneurship and economic development that defends the entrepreneurial activity as a tool for job creation and activation of the economy, we will perform an empirical analysis in ...

[EN] Small and Medium enterprises play a key role in the development of our economy. The aim of this paper is to discuss the external financing process of this business sector. After discussing the main causes of SME ...

[EN] This article, based on previous studies and multiple written literature, aims to raise awareness of the importance of the implementation of lean manufacturing tools in the Spanish industrial SMEs, showing which are ...

El proceso de internacionalización de operaciones, es decir, el despliegue de los recursos de la empresa (personas y bienes) fuera del propio país para ejecutar los procesos y actividades de la cadena de valor, es un proceso ...

[EN] The construction industry generates large environmental impacts throughout the life cycle of their products. Companies and particularly Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) are forced to be competitive and add value ...

[EN] Nowadays one of the tools over extended for quality control is Six Sigma, more in important companies, which get a big impact in their process or/and services, with a good application of this technology. However, Six ...