Benchmarking Collaborative Networks: A Key to SME Competitiveness

✍ Scribed by Katarzyna Rostek (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer International Publishing
• Year: 2015
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 182
• Series: Contributions to Management Science
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

​Limited potential of financial, organizational, human and technology resources doesn't provide SMEs sufficient opportunities to access information and knowledge necessary in competition. Observing the methods and tools used by large companies, this book studies the conditions under which it would be possible to provide support to SMEs at a lower cost and with greater methodological and organizational backing. The author presents the proposed solution, Benchmarking Collaborative Network, which would provide SMEs access to information about their level of competitiveness, the key areas for the creation of competitive advantage and the activities required to achieve this advantage.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xix
SMEs and Competitiveness: Facts and Challenges....Pages 1-27
New Approaches in Supporting to SMEs Competitiveness....Pages 29-57
Prototyping Competitive Strategy....Pages 59-97
Arranging Benchmarking Collaborative Group....Pages 99-123
Coordinating Benchmarking Collaborative Group....Pages 125-140
Benchmarking Collaborative Network: Summarizing....Pages 141-144
Back Matter....Pages 145-169

✦ Subjects

Entrepreneurship; Innovation/Technology Management; IT in Business; Industrial Organization