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Specificities of change management in SMEs

Many contemporary researches in the field of organisation and management analyse change management or determination of factors which influence dynamics of business systems, their success and adaptability. Changeable nature of the present market demands is important since it makes adaptive instead of allocation efficiency crucial for successful operations of a company. However, the majority of the undertaken researches apply to the big business systems/companies. Considering the portion of small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) in the total number of companies and the total number of employees, direct connection between entrepreneurial activity and future economic growth and the unique features of enterprise’s inner organisation dynamics, there is a reasonable interest in focusing the researches to the specific evolution dynamics of the SMEs. This paper provides a concise insight of modern literature which analyses change management in companies ; it identifies specificities of SMEs and elaborates results of the conducted preliminary empirical researches on the processual aspects of organisational changes and their connection to the SMEs success. Preliminary empirical research indicates a significant connection between change management and the SMEs successful business. Such results provide perspective to the future integral researches of change management in SMEs. These should include processual, contextual and content dimension of organisational changes and considerate individual influence of a manager/entrepreneur. Also, the future researches should try to determine certain validity of changes, examine SMEs dynamic potentials, determine factors crucial to the SMEs successful business, the possibilities of their strategic development in the modern business environment (...) which would contribute to improving the researches in the field of SMEs growth and development.

organisational changes, change management, SMEs, integrated approach

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