DocumentCode
2978046
Title
How SME Build up Core Competencies to Support Itself Grow Up: A Case Study to Tanzania Firm Kilombero Sugar Company Ltd (KSCL)
Author
Abdulla, Abdulla R. ; Othman, Maryam M.
Author_Institution
Sch. of Econ., Wuhan Univ. of Technol., Wuhan, China
fYear
2011
fDate
12-14 Aug. 2011
Firstpage
1
Lastpage
4
Abstract
Abstract: Every company´s business consists of a collection of activities undertaken in the course of designing , producing, marketing , delivering and supporting its products or service. Company resource strengths should generally form the cornerstones of strategy because they represent company´s best chance for market and growth success. If a company doesn´t have the resources and competitive capabilities around which to craft an attractive strategy, manager needs to take decisive remedial action either to upgrade the existing organizational resources and capabilities and add others as needed or to acquire them through partnership or strategic alliance with firms possessing the needed expertise. Basis was formed for assessing and analyzing the policy and programmed support for the development of the enterprise in Tanzania, with a particular focus on supporting growth. The overall findings and recommendations for further actions presented in this paper.
Keywords
organisational aspects; small-to-medium enterprises; SME core competency; Tanzania Firm Kilombero Sugar Company Limited; enterprise growth support; organizational capability; organizational resource; partnership; small-to-medium sized enterprise; strategic alliance; Agriculture; Communities; Companies; Couplings; Economic indicators; Sugar industry;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Management and Service Science (MASS), 2011 International Conference on
Conference_Location
Wuhan
Print_ISBN
978-1-4244-6579-8
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/ICMSS.2011.5998941
Filename
5998941
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