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• eBook-Kapitel aus dem Buch Risk Management Practices of SMEs

  Introduction

  Thomas Henschel

  …. Therefore it is surpris- ing that they have been neglected in empirical investigations on risk manage- ment (Section 1.1.1). Currently (2006), legal and other… …to the regional mono-structures (De, 2005, p. 242). It is therefore all the more surprising that in Germany SMEs have so far been largely ignored in… …industries. It is noticeable that the first four of the above industry sectors concern companies which primarily offer project-based services. Since there are… …form and whether the control system to be set up as described by the act is capable of fulfilling the tasks required of it.” It is noticeable that in… …compulsory exercise and is therefore not coher- ently integrated into the current management. It is also in most cases seen as a reactive type of risk… …survival, since it affects their ability to continue to receive credit from the banks (Wildemann, 2005). A risk management system is, however, necessary for… …SMEs, not only be- cause it is required by law or by the Basel II regulations, but rather because it is in the essential interest of the SMEs. The reason… …in the latter sense is a feature which is part of the exis- tence of every entrepreneurial activity. A business must identify the risks which it has… …already entered into and measure, control and adjust them if it wants to ensure its long-term existence (see Hahn, 1987, p. 139). As shown by Figure 1.1… …risk-bearing ability is the ability of the com- pany to bear losses arising from the risks it has entered into without becoming insolvent. Risk management is…

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  Literature Review

  Thomas Henschel

  …analyses the research into management behaviour and the attitude to risk, and it describes the special characteristics of SMEs. Section 2.3 reviews business… …use of instruments of performance measurement comes second (Wolf, 2003). The literature sources agree that risk management is only useful if it is… …, p. 199). The authors describe what the shape of the risk management process should be and which methods could be chosen for it. They do not go into… …SMEs and which techniques are applied to implement it. In this context the subsection then considers the current problems of SMEs as they are relevant to… …the present research. The section concludes with the investigation of the atti- tude to risk. In particular it analyses whether there are differences… …approach to running the business. Car- rying their own business planning and keeping it up to date will lead to success. 6. van Gelderen et al. (2005)… …strat- egy concentrates on one goal at a time, aiming to solve the most difficult problem first, thereby making strategy an iterative process. It is also… …owner-managers have less strategic planning skills than other managers. It is not that owner- managers view these techniques more sceptically but rather that they… …reason is that until now (2006) there exist only few studies on the phenomenon of owner-managers (Richbell et al., 2006, p. 509). So it has not definitely… …consequence of Basel II – successorship. It is interesting to note that the same study was carried out a year ago (2004) and that Basel II was then in first…

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  Research Methodology and Research Design

  Thomas Henschel

  …, by drawing on a mail questionnaire it is possible to obtain a sample being large enough to reduce sam- pling error to accept- able levels. Second, for… …of questionnaire discussed in Chapter 4 is a self-administered postal one. It was accompanied by a covering letter and a short glossary explaining the… …entire enterprise developed? It was hoped that personalized addressing of the covering letters would avoid any gatekeepers and get the message through the… …management, the hint has been included that knowl- edge management does not require elaborated methods; in its simplest form it means implementing a knowledge… …its selection. Referring to the data of regional chambers of trade and industry had to be rejected. On the one hand, it would have been be very… …well-known and annually updated database containing infor- mation about c. 65,000 German SMEs, the largest SME database with an over- regional focus. It is… …above, it is organized according to the Nomenclature Ac- tivity Classification Europe (NACE) code, which supports selecting the in- dustries being… …reports from other survey researchers such as Dennis (2003) suggest that it is becoming increasingly difficult to obtain responses. The respondents often… …intervals of the VAT statistics. Nevertheless, since using the Hoppenstedt database is the only practicable way to get nationwide data, it was taken to draw… …Small Business, Washington, USA, in June 2005, where the procedure operated in the interviews was also shown. It produced some useful comments since not…

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  Questionnaire Results

  Thomas Henschel

  …enterprises try to get into the niches. For SMEs it means to change frequently their strategy and to switch over to other segments or to other customer requests… …. It has confirmed the deficits of long-term planning as stated in regional studies on German SMEs (Ossadnik et al., 2004; Behrens et al., 2005)… …, firstly it was investigated whether the SMEs have already established any monitoring system to detect risky developments early enough (also called early… …monitoring system. Addition- ally, it was asked, whether they think it is legally required to implement a monitoring system (Appendix F, Question 1.9b). Table… …establish it) is remarkably large, indicating that SMEs inten- sively deal with this problem. It remains to investigate how systematic their approach is and… …details. It is remarked that “significant” is used here as a short word for “result of a chi-square test having a significance level p < 0.01.” A summary of… …component follows, with no signifi- cant differences between size classes. It is pointed out that “no statement” is given by almost 1/4 of the micro and the… …: Components (Q 1.7a*) and Time Horizon (Q 1.7b). Versus Industrial Sector (Q 1.1) Industrial sector Construc- tion Engineer- ing IT Auditing Trade Total Rk… …1.4% 4 Total 80 100.0% 93 100.0% 39 100.0% 28 100.0% 36 100.0% 276 100.0% * Multiple selection allowed It is interesting to note that the construction… …intervals. Finally, it is emphasized that the sophistication of long-term business planning unveils great deficits within all size classes, which the…

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  Interview Results

  Thomas Henschel

  …board of directors was present. For micro and small firms it often was the only managing director. The re- maining 9 firms mostly belong to the medium… …4.2.1), which may be due to the fact that in the interviews it was additionally asked whether the share makes up more than 25%, thus excluding immaterial… …environment, it is remarkable that 52.6% of the firms state a worsening with respect to customers. About half of them also confirm that the situation with… …firstly investigates how the firms evalu- ate the technology of their products and services. Then it is asked in which phase of the product life cycle their… …main products are located. Finally, it was inquired whether the firms currently suffer from a shortage of personnel. In view of the technology of… …products and services, a clear majority (76.7%) declare it to be mature, with few innovations being possible. This tendency is also found with respect to the… …decreasing to strongly increasing. To help estimating the growth it was asked whether a possible decrease or increase made up more than 10% or less than 10%… …and small firms (see Appendix L). 5.2 Analysis of Quantitative Results 155 It was also examined in which way the firms make use of external support… …other managers a cash budget and a budgeted balance sheet. Concerning a master budget, there is no such differ- ence; both groups employ it relatively… …, each one with a typical or with a dramatic statement. It is pointed out that size classes associated with these quotations always refer to the definition…

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