SMEs
Processi di sviluppo e apprendimento delle piccole imprese attraverso il commercio elettronico
Il presente lavoro tenta di delineare un modello esplicativo dei processi di costituzione e degrado delle risorse-chiave necessarie per il perseguimento di uno sviluppo sostenibile attraverso il ricorso al commercio elettronico. Tale modello si basa sull’adozione di due complementari prospettive di studio: l’analisi dell’azienda vista come sistema di risorsechiave e la rappresentazione delle relative dinamiche […]
How to define a profitable and sustainable growth policy in a changing market?
How to define a profitable and sustainable growth policy in a changing market? A case study: a small publishing company. A tireless architect founded Grafill, a small book publishing company, at the end of the 80s. He believed that in the real estate and construction sectors there is a lack of practical, reliable and punctual […]
Matching Commercial & Financial Policies in Small and Micro Family Firms
Matching Commercial & Financial Policies in Small and Micro Family Firms: the Small Business Growth Management Flight Simulator An Interactive Learning Environment (ILE) has been built in order to reproduce the budgeting process of a small family-owned entrepreneurial firm, to capture how current decisions impact on business growth in a longer time horizon. The ILE […]
Fostering Small Business Growth and Entrepreneurial Learning through Accounting and System Dynamics Models
Empirical research on business failure shows how lack of understanding the peculiar context underlying the small business system is often a primary factor of crisis. Particularly when implicit operational growth policies are pursued, high entrepreneurial involvement in current activities and lack of relevant strategic information are major causes of bias and bounded rationality in decision […]
Applying SD to the Management of a SMEs: A Case of Study in wine industry
This paper analyzes a winery company using System Dynamics to investigate policies for sustainable development. The wine production sector and the world market show complex characteristics that limit real understanding of the behaviors generated. System Dynamics can be a powerful tool to improve understanding and find leverage points of complex management systems by supporting managers […]
