1st Edition

Small and Medium Sized Enterprises

By Kenneth Dyson Copyright 1990
    144 Pages
    by Routledge

    by Routledge

    The single European market after 1992 presents a major challenge to small and medium-sized companies in the Community. Whether it is developing exports and/or fighting off new imports, Europe's entrepreneurs will have to `think European'. Moreover, the European Community institutions themselves have developed special policies designed to promote the interests of Europe's smaller companies. This volume explains how the EC's policies towards small and medium-sized enterprises have developed and what they currently entail. It guides the reader through the various EC policy initiatives and the new legislation - including that in the `1992' package - relevant to the smaller business company. It offers summaries of the key EC documents concerned, and presents a full listing of all the other relevant proposals and policies. Like the others in this series, the volume is both comprehensive and up-to-date: it discusses not only what the EC has done which is relevant to small businesses, but also what it is proposing to do in the future.

    Section 1 Introduction; Chapter 1 The European Community and the Development of SME Policy; Section 2 Summaries of Key European Community Programmes on SMEs; Chapter 2 Promoting External Business and Trade; Chapter 3 Promoting SMES Within the Internal Market Programme; Section 3 Commission Documents of Relevance to Small and Medium Sized Enterprises; Chapter 4 IPolicy Proposals and Memoranda; Chapter 5 IICommission Information Publications; Chapter 6 IIIEuropean Parliament and Economic and Social Committee Documents;

    Biography

    Kenneth Dyson