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Thai Manufacturing Small And Medium Sized Enterprise Technical Efficiency: Evidence From Firm-Level Industrial Census Data, Teerawat Charoenrat, Charles Harvie, Yot Amornkitvikai
Thai Manufacturing Small And Medium Sized Enterprise Technical Efficiency: Evidence From Firm-Level Industrial Census Data, Teerawat Charoenrat, Charles Harvie, Yot Amornkitvikai
Charles Harvie
Thai manufacturing small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) face intense competition in domestic and foreign markets. Given their importance to the economic development of the country it is important to have a clear understanding of their readiness to face the rigors of international competition, including the barriers and specific problems that they face. This study uses a stochastic frontier analysis (SFA) and technical inefficiency effects model to analyze the technical efficiency of Thai manufacturing SMEs and key factors impacting upon it. Analysis of cross-sectional data from a 2007 census of Thai manufacturing SMEs indicates that their weighted average technical efficiency …
Assessing A Pumpkin Butter Enterprise For Bishop's Pumpkin Farm, Meghan Bishop
Assessing A Pumpkin Butter Enterprise For Bishop's Pumpkin Farm, Meghan Bishop
Agribusiness
Bishop’s Pumpkin Farm is a 40-year-old agriculture tourism destination looking to expand their brand name. One way to do this is through value-added products and in the case of this study, by producing pumpkin butter. To determine if this would be a revenue enhancing enterprise for the business, expenses were analyzed for the ingredients in the product and the processing at an offsite processor. A break-even analysis was performed to determine a minimum price required to cover variable production prices and a minimum required price to cover total costs which would include establishment costs. The numbers were based on a …
An Enterprise Architecture Driven Approach To Virtualisation, Stephen Smith, Asifqumer Gill, Helen M. Hasan, Shahla Ghobadi
An Enterprise Architecture Driven Approach To Virtualisation, Stephen Smith, Asifqumer Gill, Helen M. Hasan, Shahla Ghobadi
Faculty of Business - Papers (Archive)
Organisations have shown a significant interest in the adoption of virtualisation technology for improving the efficiency of their Data Centres (DC) from both the resource performance and cost efficiency viewpoints. By improving the efficiency of data centres we can sustainably manage their impact on the environment by controlling their energy consumption. The intentions are clear but how best to approach to Data Centre virtualisation is not. This paper proposes an integrated Enterprise Architecture and Information Infrastructure (EAII) driven approach to guide the Data Centre virtualisation. The EAII approach has been developed based on the review and analysis of wellknown The …
Thai Manufacturing Small And Medium Sized Enterprise Technical Efficiency: Evidence From Firm-Level Industrial Census Data, Teerawat Charoenrat, Charles Harvie, Yot Amornkitvikai
Thai Manufacturing Small And Medium Sized Enterprise Technical Efficiency: Evidence From Firm-Level Industrial Census Data, Teerawat Charoenrat, Charles Harvie, Yot Amornkitvikai
Faculty of Business - Papers (Archive)
Thai manufacturing small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) face intense competition in domestic and foreign markets. Given their importance to the economic development of the country it is important to have a clear understanding of their readiness to face the rigors of international competition, including the barriers and specific problems that they face. This study uses a stochastic frontier analysis (SFA) and technical inefficiency effects model to analyze the technical efficiency of Thai manufacturing SMEs and key factors impacting upon it. Analysis of cross-sectional data from a 2007 census of Thai manufacturing SMEs indicates that their weighted average technical efficiency …
Editorial: Family Enterprise: Significant And Different, Mary Barrett
Editorial: Family Enterprise: Significant And Different, Mary Barrett
Faculty of Business - Papers (Archive)
This special issue of Small Enterprise Research (SER) is dedicated to family business, a topic which, although sometimes mentioned in passing in the journal, has not previously been the subject of a special issue. A comparative lack of attention to the special nature of family firms is typical of business scholarship generally where the non-family (or widely-held) corporate form dominates both the business research literature and business education. Family business has also been slow to attract public policy attention, perhaps because family businesses are stereotyped as small, despite the international prominence of huge family-based enterprises such as Newscorp.