Management techniques and procedures
A significant contribution to research on SMEs is any examination and review of
management practices adopted by entrepreneurs as they negotiate competitive
environments. Strategies may include financial management strategies, strategies
associated with marketing, human resource development, systems development,
exporting or importing strategies or the equivalent. Given the commonality of financial management within all SMEs, it is to be expected that a number of
doctoral studies may focus on this area and two examples are reviewed below –
from Vietnam and Indonesia. Comment has already been made on SME use of
information .
In 2001, a researcher submitted a thesis