I am still in favour of the small and medium-enterprise (SMEs) business sector over large firms. They are crucial to nations’ economic sustainability and growth.<\/p>\n
The global economic crisis and the 2020 Covid-19 pandemic are causing turbulence in the business environment and increasing uncertainty. Actually, SMEs are facing more challenges in such a business environment and they are the hardest affected. This is due to marginal resources, and less diversification, which puts them at higher risk than large enterprises.<\/p>\n
For example, in 2020, the number of SMEs decreased by 1.3%, employment by 1.7%, and valued added in SMEs fell by 7.6% as reported by the European commission in 2021. The majority of SMEs either had to close their operations or faced a significant decline in revenue. However, there remain open questions, about how SMEs cope and survive during these times, and will develop strategies that will orchestrate resilience.<\/p>\n
The dynamic environment and frequent unpredictable events affect the organisation’s performance, and challenges managements with a need to align the organisation with the ever-changing market environment. The top management has the challenge of building, integrating, and reconfiguring internal and external competencies, and this translates to dynamic managerial capability for organisational resilience: abilities, means, actions and organisational behaviours in anticipating and dealing with financial adversity for recovery.<\/p>\n
Organisational reaction to external threats has to be agile in such a way that its’ resources are allocated appropriately with respect to the environment. In addition, reliability is essential; with adaptable business models or design principles, that mitigate vulnerabilities and disruptions. Organisational behaviour should develop capacities to form dynamic strategies that maintain operations in times of uncertainty and respond effectively to them.<\/p>\n
Sebuwufu Joseph Awali<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n Industrial Management I am still in favour of the small and medium-enterprise (SMEs) business sector over large firms. They are crucial to nations’ economic sustainability and growth. The global economic crisis and the 2020 Covid-19 pandemic are causing turbulence in the business environment and increasing uncertainty. Actually, SMEs are facing more challenges in such a business environment […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":316,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[134,122,135,136,133,132],"class_list":["post-313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-en","tag-companies","tag-dynaamiset-kyvykkyydet","tag-dynamic-capabilities","tag-industrial-management","tag-resilience","tag-sme"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
\nDoctoral Programme in Technical Sciences,
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