Across the pond: A comparison of the Mexican & British SMEs and their dealings with sustainability.

作者: Vicky Lofthouse , Ricardo Victoria Uribe

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摘要: Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) are widely recognized as an important part of the worldwide economy, acting both backbone local economies consumers natural resources. In light this, since 1990's, research to investigate how make them more sustainable through use design tools, has been carried out. This paper reports findings from a doctoral project which aims introduced into British SMEs whether these approaches can be transferred their Mexican counterparts. Whilst it is that have different contexts challenges, initial indicates they share common goals may face similar problems in way communicated them. The objective this present commonalities between contexts, analyze issues countries explore existence possible gap current attempts apply context. It concludes lack access network sources information hindering process for many SMEs.

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