In several countries, SMEs have tried to organize themselves by setting up their own SME sections within existing business associations or, even more radically, have tried to establish independent small business organizations.

Some hold that enterprises know their own needs best.

Since entrepreneurs are more at liberty to organise their own time and are their own boss', there is no glass ceiling' to contend

According to statistical data, only a small percentage of youth across the globe is able to find the necessary funding to start up their own businesses and to involve themselves and other young men and women in entrepreneurship.

61. Support programmes may also serve as an incentive for enterprises, particularly SMEs, to better organize themselves and to register themselves with the authorities.

So in short, it's a do it yourself tool for small businesses to raise these funds.

Chris and Bill have volunteered their time to use operations and partnerships.

The 1992 policy removed the restriction on ownership participation and the Indian entity is free to decide on the exact level of ownership it wants to hold in overseas ventures.

This is by a local Ghanaian entrepreneur, using his own capital.

With the assistance from the Government they were able to start self employment schemes and eventually became the agents of their change.

Vocational training programmes had been established and women were being encouraged to start their own small businesses.

Many young women who have already started their own businesses are involved in this project.

Examples were cited of people who would formerly have thought in terms of being an employee increasingly developing an entrepreneurial mentality and acquiring skills to create their own business.

For purposes of meeting the needs for qualified personnel, the employer is given the opportunity both to train his employees in the general education system and to create and expand an on the job structure for training personnel.

Market vitality comes from people, especially from entrepreneurs, from entrepreneurship.

To achieve competition, the network operator would have the obligation to provide its network to other enterprises.

I've been a huge fan of enterprise and entrepreneurship since 1993.

Its Local Industry Upgrading Program (LIUP) continues to support local suppliers to upgrade through collaborations with foreign firms.

Aiming at strengthening the operation and raising productivity of Greek agricultural cooperatives as independent, autonomous and self administered enterprises, a new law has been drafted based on international cooperative principles.

All these rationales for CSR suggest that it should be left to each corporation to determine, just as PSR leaves altruism to each individual s conscience and sense of what needs supporting. The attempt by some NGOs and activists to impose a straitjacket on CSR, reflecting their priorities, is misguided and must be rejected.

To attain this objective, the State provides facilities, eliminates the various obstacles that hinder economic enterprise (small, medium or large scale) in the various spheres of activity and fosters the integration of individuals within the enterprise, so that they may make use of their skills and participate in the task of production and creation, thereby ensuring not only their survival, but also their own advancement while retaining their freedom.

(ii) In recognition of the different requirements and interests of large and small business, the experts recommended that SMEs should be encouraged, and even assisted by Governments, to organize their own representation in the dialogue, having regard for and reflecting the full range of diversity among them

Through these acquisitions, leading SINTNCs aimed to gain access to firm specific competencies in the target firms that often take time to develop in house.

) Each year WTCs facilitate billions of dollars in trade. Around the world, WTCs are viewed as engines for economic development. Our motto is peace and stability through trade.

The range of business services to which SMEs need access reflects the fact that SMEs must rely on external resources for services which larger firms can provide in house.

As a result of their collaboration, private industry could develop on its own a series of products that used optics for industrial and medical imaging applications.

The industry wants to self police themselves.

Anyway, this mysterious group Anonymous and they would say this themselves they are providing a service by demonstrating how useless companies are at protecting our data.

(vi) Governments (in particular local governments) should collect information regarding the SMEs within their territories, including their contribution to the economy and job creation.

I see an important direction for this policy in expanding the number of owners, creating opportunities for all wishing to do so to open their own business.

She is the founder of Body Shop, the natural cosmetics king.

Enterprises from developing countries and economies in transition, as well as those from developed countries, including those that have already established their presence in international markets, are thus being subjected to a new form of competition.

The Palestinian and Jordanian claimants each asserted a one sixth interest in the businesses as at 2 August 1990 while the Kuwaiti claimant asserted that she was their sole owner.

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Particularly, the enterprise s own equity instruments shall not include the contracts which are the basis for the enterprise to charge or pay the equity instruments of its own.

Indian firms, including SMEs, also faced competition from abroad as a result of globalization.

The coal mining administrations and other coal mining and trading enterprises with the status of independent legal entities shall, according to law, make their own decisions regarding their operations, be responsible for their own losses and profits and be capable of expanding or contracting themselves.

Second, enterprises operating in a particular product category could come together, collaborate and pool their resources for creating their own respective niche market segment.

At first sight, it seems counterintuitive that companies would want to share data and potentially give away competitive advantages. But this presupposes that the possession of such data does indeed imply a competitive advantage, and that a closed operating model is financially sustainable.

With the rise of the business corporation, large family firms have generally disappeared. But that does not mean that a corporation is the right entity to engage in altruism though its various stakeholders obviously can spend any portion of the income they earn from the corporation and other sources in altruistic ways.

Of messing up my career.

This form of organization permitted collaboration between the State and the private sector in service activities, and it allowed the Trade Point to manage its activities like an enterprise whilst enjoying the prerogatives of a public enterprise.

With respect to the types of enterprises, one may distinguish between informal sector enterprises, essentially microenterprises, and enterprises in the formal sector, which include some microenterprises, SMEs and large firms.

We choose our own profession, and we choose our own partners.

In employment creation, employment development strategies should take into account the role of self employment, entrepreneurship, small and medium sized enterprises and the informal sector.