Raising of SME Capabilities: the Case of Latvian Printing Companies

Vedecké listy Fakulty chemickej a potravinárskej technológie Slovenskej technickej univerzity v Bratislave - Katedry manažmentu = Research Papers Faculty of Chemical and Food Technology Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava - Department of Management 2007
Guna Ciemleja, Nataļja Lāce

The article covers work efficiency problems for small and medium sized enterprises, by stressing the importance of performance assessment. The article also provides an overall evaluation of the performance in the manufacturing and printing industries in Latvia. Indicators’ selection and estimation possibilities have been inspected from the perspective of resource management conception. The authors consider that because of the increasing number of small enterprises in the national economy, topical are becoming the issues that concern production cost management and assessment of work performance. Work performance assessment system should be included in the company’s management system by regarding the characteristic features of the business process of the respective branch of industry.

Keywords
SME, work efficiency, performance assessment, manufacturing industry, printing companies

Ciemleja, G., Lāce, N. Raising of SME Capabilities: the Case of Latvian Printing Companies. Vedecké listy Fakulty chemickej a potravinárskej technológie Slovenskej technickej univerzity v Bratislave - Katedry manažmentu = Research Papers Faculty of Chemical and Food Technology Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava - Department of Management, 2007, Vol.3, No.2, pp.14-24.

Publication language
English (en)