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Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises in Turbulent Times: Revisiting the Concept and Prospecting Its Developments Cover

Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises in Turbulent Times: Revisiting the Concept and Prospecting Its Developments

Proceedings of the International Conference on Business Excellence
Volume 18 (2024): Issue 1 (June 2024)
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|Jul 2024

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/picbe-2024-0166 | Journal eISSN: 2558-9652
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Language: English
Page range: 1971 - 1978
Published on: Jul 3, 2024
Published by: The Bucharest University of Economic Studies
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 1 times per year
Keywords:
theoretical framework on small and medium-sized enterprises,
comparing SMEs to other market competitors,
competitiveness and resilience of SMEs,
the importance of SMEs for the economy,
challenges encountered by SMEs
Related subjects:
Business and economics,
Political economics,
Political economics, other,
Business management,
Business management, other,
Industrial chemistry,
Energy harvesting and conversion

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