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The Changing Role of SMEs in Global Business

Volume II: Contextual Evolution Across Markets, Disciplines and Sectors

Palgrave Macmillan
  • Provides coverage of a variety of geographic regions, market types and industries, and business field applications
  • Includes case studies as well as empirical data
  • Explores critical success factors of SMEs

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxi
  2. Editorial Introduction: Contextual Evolution of SMEs across Markets, Disciplines and Sectors

    • Alkis Thrassou, Demetris Vrontis, Yaakov Weber, S. M. Riad Shams, Evangelos Tsoukatos
    Pages 1-14
  3. Defining the SME: A Multi-Perspective Investigation

    • Stefano Montanari, Ulpiana Kocollari
    Pages 61-82
  4. To Fail or Not to Fail: An Algorithm for SME Survival Prediction Using Accounting Data

    • José Manuel Pereira, Humberto Ribeiro, Amélia Silva, Sandra Raquel Alves
    Pages 83-107
  5. Dynamic Capabilities and System Thinking: The Role of Networking Capabilities to Foster Innovation in SMEs

    • Demetris Vrontis, Gianpaolo Basile, Mauro Sciarelli, Mario Tani
    Pages 109-131
  6. The Influence of Social Vision, Social Networks, and Financial Return on Social SME Sustainability

    • Sunday Adewale Olaleye, Emmanuel Mogaji, Josue Kuika Watat, Dandison Ukpabi
    Pages 133-153
  7. Prediction of Viticulture Farms Behaviour: An Agent-Based Model Approach

    • Aníbal Galindro, João Matias, Adelaide Cerveira, Cátia Santos, Ana Marta-Costa
    Pages 155-178
  8. Digitalization of SMEs: A Review of Opportunities and Challenges

    • Alkis Thrassou, Naziyet Uzunboylu, Demetris Vrontis, Michael Christofi
    Pages 179-200
  9. Italian Furniture Sector SMEs: Sustainability and Commercial Ethics

    • Guido Migliaccio, Luigi Umberto Rossetti
    Pages 225-259
  10. Back Matter

    Pages 261-264

About this book

SMEs are significant job creators and drivers of innovation and competition in most economic sectors. Furthermore, the traditional constraints of small and medium enterprises, such as geographic operations, are now being dissolved by technological developments. This means that there are new opportunities for SMEs, and their fundamental principles are being redefined: the aims, competencies, strategy, management, practice, and scope of these businesses are changing, with wide-ranging implications.

This is the second part of a two volume work that incorporates scientific chapters on SME business theory and practice. Authors provide a balanced perspective of the present and future of SMEs across all business disciplines, for example management, strategy, marketing, economics and finance. While Volume I focuses on the individual SME and internal issues such as innovation, quality, and digitization, this second volume explores external issues such as contextual forces, the effectsof the financial crisis, and macro-economic effects.  

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Marketing, University of Nicosia, Nicosia, Cyprus

    Alkis Thrassou, Demetris Vrontis

  • School of Business Administration, College of Management, Rishon Lezion, Israel

    Yaakov Weber

  • Newcastle Business School, Northumbria University, Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK

    S. M. Riad Shams

  • Department of Accounting and Finance, Hellenic Mediterranean University, Heraklion, Crete, Greece

    Evangelos Tsoukatos

About the editors

Alkis Thrassou is Professor in the School of Business at the University of Nicosia, Cyprus, and a Senior Research Fellow of the EuroMed Academy of Business (EMAB). He has undertaken significant research in the fields of strategic marketing, management and customer behaviour.

Demetris Vrontis is Professor and Vice Rector for Faculty and Research at the University of Nicosia in Cyprus, as well the Editor-in-Chief of the EuroMed Journal of Business (EMJB) and the President of the EuroMed Research Business Institute (EMRBI).

Yaakov Weber is Professor and Director of the Research Unit, School of Business Administration, College of Management, Israel. He is the Founder and President of EMRBI and EMAB.

S. M. Riad Shams is Lecturer at the Newcastle Business School, Northumbria University, UK. He has published eight edited books, contributed articles to top-tier international journals, guest-edited for various reputedjournals, and he is the founding editor of the International Journal of Big Data Management.

Evangelos Tsoukatos teaches Management at the University of Applied Sciences Crete, Greece, and is adjunct faculty at the University of Nicosia and the Hellenic Open University. He is Associate Editor of EMJB.


Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Changing Role of SMEs in Global Business

  • Book Subtitle: Volume II: Contextual Evolution Across Markets, Disciplines and Sectors

  • Editors: Alkis Thrassou, Demetris Vrontis, Yaakov Weber, S. M. Riad Shams, Evangelos Tsoukatos

  • Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Cross-disciplinary Business Research, In Association with EuroMed Academy of Business

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-45835-5

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Business and Management, Business and Management (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-45834-8Published: 14 November 2020

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-45837-9Published: 14 November 2021

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-45835-5Published: 13 November 2020

  • Series ISSN: 2523-8167

  • Series E-ISSN: 2523-8175

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXI, 264

  • Number of Illustrations: 7 b/w illustrations, 1 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Small Business, Business Strategy/Leadership

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Hardcover Book USD 109.99
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  • Durable hardcover edition
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