Title :
Capacity of Product Design, Financial Service and Performance of Small and Medium Manufacturing Enterprises
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Econ. & Manage., Tongji Univ., Shanghai, China
Abstract :
Product design is an essential part of the new product innovation, which is affected by availability of financing. In the paper, we study the relationship between financial services and capacity of product design, and examine whether capacity of product design contributes to the improvement in performance of the small and medium manufacturing enterprises. The research shows that, financial service has a significant and positive influence on both of capacity of product design and performance of the small and medium manufacturing enterprises, and capacity of product design mediates the link between financial services and performance of the small and medium manufacturing enterprises.
Keywords :
financial management; manufacturing industries; product design; small-to-medium enterprises; financial service; product design capacity; product innovation; small-and-medium manufacturing enterprise; Companies; Manufacturing; Manufacturing industries; Mathematical model; Product design; Technological innovation;
Conference_Titel :
Computer and Management (CAMAN), 2011 International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Wuhan
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-9282-4
DOI :
10.1109/CAMAN.2011.5778819