Internationalization benefits larger firms as well as SMEs.

Big companies. Big companies.

In contrast to the internationalization by larger companies, Singapore SMEs tend to invest in the neighbouring economies.

The Singapore Government and Singaporean companies, both large and SMEs, have a keen interest investing abroad.

The OFDI motivations for SMEs are in general similar to those for larger firms.

The modern market can include domestic and foreign providers, both SMEs and large companies.

During this period, there was rapid expansion among small and medium sized firms and a gradual retrenchment among the large firms which had hitherto characterised the region's industrial base.

Big institutions mean bureaucracy.

Why don't they catch the big ones?

The preference for joint ventures and greenfield investment has a great deal to do with the lack of firm specific advantages among these SMEs from Singapore.

Large banks tend to lend to large companies in order to save costs.

Publicists could work in large companies as in little companies.

In the wake of numerous corporate scandals between 2001 and 2004 (affecting large corporations like Enron, WorldCom and Tyco), even small and medium sized companies have begun to appoint ethics officers.

China s Repressed SMEs

Second wave firms include both SMEs and large companies, and both can take advantage of the plethora of interfirm arrangements found in the global economy (UNCTAD 2000 xv).

And I wanted, through color and large format cameras and very large prints, to make a body of work that somehow became symbols of our use of the landscape, how we use the land.

Big corporations have an in built tendency to reinforce past success.

This very voluminous trial has progressed to an advanced stage.

SMEs face greater challenges in internationalizing.

With the rise of the business corporation, large family firms have generally disappeared.

Not just rule so that big companies can make a bigger profit.

But the big money goes to a handful of huge corporations.

My father says that these big companies don't pay much.

Economies of scale and other factors are also important.

Some SMEs follow TNCs as their supplier firms in going abroad.

Networking allows SMEs to combine the flexibility of small scale businesses with advantages of large firm groups, such as economies of scale.

The big secret seems to be to merge a sick corporation with a big, fat healthy one, and then everybody gets well.

The revival of traditional foods has attracted the attention of large multinational corporations.

There is an enduring logic of industrial success that favours large firms (Chandler 1990).

And this is what you'll see if you actually look at income statements for public companies.

Traditionally, an overwhelming obstacle for firms wishing to internationalize has been the issue of scale.

In this context, the key to success lies in support for small and medium sized companies.

In Sutherland's system, companies don't use large, massive projects that take two years.

This process has led to a concentration of sales, with large firms and chains dominating the market.

Which is a pretty good deal if you own consturction companies, big ones.

And in fact, the large corporations, the governments, can't take the risk.

They needed help, and the large companies themselves have this dilemma.

Indeed, another necessary component of such reforms is the adoption of medium sized to large sized districts for the election of national legislators.

African SMEs also point the way to dynamic, sustainable, and fair growth.

In other words, SMEs from Singapore remain interested in regional markets rather than global markets.

The first option would enable producers everywhere to take advantage of economies of scale.

Shorter national military service for parents of large families, children of unmarried mothers, etc.

The complex, large scale operations within the option one product lines offer full cost recovery.

Experience shows that SMEs normally internationalize their activities faster than large firms.

In Italy, the difficulties arise from banks continued lending to domestic companies, especially small and medium size enterprises (SMEs), while GDP has stagnated.