Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) Competing in the Global Business Environment: A Case of Malaysia
By M. Muhammad, Abdul Kamal Char, M. R. Yasoa', Zakiah Hassan. 2009
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AbstractSmall and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) play a vital role in the country's economic development. The current trend of economic growth and the rapid industrial development has made Malaysia as one of the most open economies in the world. In conjunction with the Ninth Malaysian Plan (2006-2010), the government is devoting and designing the SME development plan to assist the SMEs to meet the new business challenges in the competitive global business environment. The focus of this paper is the discussion of the competitiveness facing SMEs in the global business environment by examining the opportunities and supports from the government. Furthermore, this study also analyses the challenges of Malaysian SMEs in globalizes market together with economics turmoil.
Subfields: Management of Technology and Innovation, Sociology and Political Science, Strategy and Management
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In Strategy and Management
Citations in the corpus
- Challenges Faced by the Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in Malaysia: An Intellectual Capital Perspective (2011, background): “Hashim and Wafa, (2002) and Muhammad et al. (2010) identified that the main problems faced by SMEs in Malaysia are the lack of knowledge regarding marketing techniques, branding, customer loyalty and also lack of good contacts with others local and international enterprises.”