Today’s competitive business environment is unstable and continues to change, so business owners are facing great challenges in designing suitable business plans, particularly in developing countries where there are few studies and limited knowledge on business analysis and organisational strategies. Organisations need effective business strategies...
Science and technology not only change life, but also change business models, with E-commerce being the best proof of this in recent years. More and more businesses began to develop businesses through E-commerce and emerging technologies also made a competitive business environment more changeable and challenged. It is therefore important to delive...
The purpose of this article is to examine how the perceptions of employees could have an influence in business strategy. The problem statement and main research question is: How can employees’ perceptions influence the outcome of business strategy of SMEs in Lao PDR? This article critically reviews the literature pertaining to perceptions and attit...
Small business delivers a massive contribution to the New Zealand economy by generating job opportunities. Besides that, small business has several key advantages namely: small businesses are more efficient than large businesses in producing certain goods and services; they are the source of competition and innovation in the economy; they are an im...
In the global market, many trade unions emerge to form negotiating and bargaining power across their market zone. One of the newest emerging unions among the ASEAN countries is also in the progress of integration. The ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) is a trade union as a result of the joining of 10 member countries in order to connect economies in A...
Brand management is a means to building a strong brand and enhancing business performance. This research project aimed to investigate how brand management is exercised in SMEs in Laos especially in the handicrafts sector and to identify obstacles in building a successful brand for the SMEs. This study employed a semi-structured interview as a data ...
The purpose of this research is to understand the influence of employees’ perceptions about business strategy in order to identify the factors that contribute to a successful strategy. The research also examines employees’ perceptions about strategy formulation and implementation process of SMEs in Laos, and how these perceptions would affect the o...
In the last thirty years the expansion of commerce in the South Pacific has attracted greater participation by those indigenous to the Pacific Islands. This growth in participation introduces the need to better understand and guide this new group of entrepreneurs and businesses. This greater level of participation is not only apparent in the small ...
Commonly SMEs are owned and managed by a working owner who makes most of management decisions. Most of these SMEs do not have access to specialist staff with management expertise nor are they a part of large businesses or group of companies with managerial expertise. Most of SME owners commonly rely on building their management expertise through ex...
The paper reports the progress on the launch of a project designed to empower a multi-disciplinary faculty of students and teachers to identify and implement practical actions towards improving environmental sustainability in their multiple contexts. Specifically, the project is focussed on drawing lessons FOR and WITH SMEs who have the ambition to...
