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Competitive Strategies for Small and Medium Enterprises

Increasing Crisis Resilience, Agility and Innovation in Turbulent Times

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Editors:
  1. Klaus North

    1. Wiesbaden Business School, RheinMain University of Applied Sciences, Darmstadt, Germany

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  2. Gregorio Varvakis

    1. Dept. of Engineering and Knowledge Mgmt., Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Trindade, Florianópolis - SC, Brazil

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  • Provides a quick overview on state of the art theory of SME growth and competition in turbulent times
  • Presents practical cases and tools how to increase crisis resilience and agility
  • Supports readers with an extensive website containing further publications, videos on instruments and SME cases

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Table of contents (18 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Introduction: What Is a “Dynamic SME”

    • Klaus North, Gregorio Varvakis
    Pages 1-17

  3. Dynamic Capabilities and Organizational Resilience in Turbulent Environments

    • Diego Jacob Kurtz, Gregorio Varvakis
    Pages 19-37

  4. Case: XENON Automation Technology: Cutting Edge Competence as Competitive Strategy

    • Tobias Reissmann, Thomas Hardwig
    Pages 39-44

  5. Culture for Organizational Learning in Turbulent Environments

    • Peter Friedrich, Jaqueline Rossato
    Pages 45-76

  6. The Innovation Triple Challenge: A Creativity Check for SMES

    • Maurício Manhães, Guillermo Antonio Dávila
    Pages 77-92

  7. Intellectual Capital as a Strategic Model to Create Innovation in New Technology Based Firms

    • Eduardo Bueno, Carlos Merino, Cecilia Murcia
    Pages 93-105

  8. An Analysis of Micro and Small Enterprises Growth: An Application of the Management Excellence Model (MEG)

    • Marcondes da Silva Cândido, Jackson André da Silva
    Pages 107-116

  9. Case: KST Turbine Components: “Qualiyspeedservice” as Competitive Strategy

    • Heiko Dittmer, Thomas Hardwig
    Pages 117-121

  10. Argentina: A Chronically Variable Socio-Economic Environment for SMEs

    • Juan Carlos Hiba
    Pages 123-137

  11. Surviving and Competing in Times of Crisis: Cases of Strategies by Argentine SMEs

    • Ricardo Detarsio, Klaus North, Maialen Ormaetxea
    Pages 139-151

  12. Learning to Cope with Turbulent Situations: A Study of Owner—Managers in Argentine SMEs

    • Peter Friedrich, Juan Carlos Hiba
    Pages 153-179

  13. SME Vulnerability Analysis: A Tool for Business Continuity

    • Iñaki Garagorri
    Pages 181-194

  14. Knowledge Risk Management in Turbulent Times

    • Susanne Durst, Helio Aisenberg Ferenhof
    Pages 195-209

  15. Knowledge Management Tools for SMES

    • Klaus North, Renia Babakhanlou
    Pages 211-222

  16. Learning to Grow: A Methodology to Sustain Growth Capabilities of SMES

    • Klaus North, Manfred Bergstermann, Thomas Hardwig
    Pages 223-235

  17. Case: Herradep: A Double and Intelligent Strategy to Grow—Improving Worker Knowledge and Competences Through Self-Managed Short Term Projects

    • Pilar Abelli, Juan Carlos Hiba
    Pages 237-240

  18. How Brazilian Textile Enterprises Learn to Grow

    • Guillermo Antonio Dávila, Klaus North, Gregorio Varvakis
    Pages 241-254

  19. Virtual Enterprises: Strengthening SMES Competitiveness via Flexible Businesses Alliances

    • Ricardo J. Rabelo, Fabiano Baldo, Omir C. Alves-Junior, Christian Dihlmann
    Pages 255-272

  20. Back Matter

    Pages 273-281
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About this book

This book is a timely guide for Small and Medium Enterprise (SME) researchers, policy makers and strategists. SMEs are the most important sources of job creation and local development especially in knowledge-based economies. As turbulence in the globalized economies expands SMEs will have to learn to sustain competitiveness by developing their ‘dynamic capabilities’. Based on the findings of a 4-year European and Latin American research project, this book provides a theoretical framework, practical instruments and cases on how SMEs in diverse economic, social and cultural contexts can develop crisis resilience, increase agility, innovate and thus successfully compete in turbulent times.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Wiesbaden Business School, RheinMain University of Applied Sciences, Darmstadt, Germany

    Klaus North

  • Dept. of Engineering and Knowledge Mgmt., Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Trindade, Florianópolis - SC, Brazil

    Gregorio Varvakis

About the editors

Dr. Klaus North is Professor of International Management at Wiesbaden Business School, Germany. His current research covers knowledge and innovation management in an international context. He has been working for more than 30 years in SME assistance programmes around the world and leads the European-Latin American research project “Dynamic SME - Sustainable competitiveness of SMEs in turbulent economic and social environments.” Together with Gita Kumta (Mumbai) he is the author of the Springer (2014) textbook “Knowledge Management – Creating Value by Organisational Learning”.

Gregório Jean Varvakis Rados, PhD is Professor and Head of postgraduate courses in the Department of Engineering and Knowledge Management at Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, UFSC, Florianópolis, Brasil. He holds a PhD in Manufacturing Engineering from Loughborough University, England. He has been a consultant at McKINSEY LTDA. His research covers Knowledge and service management with special attention to productivity improvement through BPM. He is co-leader of the Dynamic SME project.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Competitive Strategies for Small and Medium Enterprises

  • Book Subtitle: Increasing Crisis Resilience, Agility and Innovation in Turbulent Times

  • Editors: Klaus North, Gregorio Varvakis

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-27303-7

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

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

  • Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-27301-3Published: 02 March 2016

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-80112-4Published: 07 April 2018

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-27303-7Published: 19 February 2016

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: X, 281

  • Number of Illustrations: 26 b/w illustrations, 23 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Entrepreneurship, Innovation/Technology Management, Business Strategy/Leadership

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