This document outlines a literature review and proposed research on the role of strategic planning on small and medium enterprise (SME) performance. The review examines studies of SMEs in the Middle East, Africa, and Southeast Asia. The proposed research aims to evaluate how entrepreneurial orientation moderates the relationship between strategic planning and SME performance. A mixed methods longitudinal study of 250 SMEs in Egypt is outlined to collect data through interviews and questionnaires to analyze the impact of strategic planning over one year while controlling for demographic factors. The goal is to provide recommendations to support SMEs based on the findings.
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Role of strategic planning on sm es performance
1. The role of Strategic Planning
on SMEs Performance
Emad Darweesh, ESLSCA Business School
LITERATURE REVIEW WITH REGIONAL PERSPECTIVE
2. Outline
Introduction
Research Objectives
SMEs in Economy
Strategic Planning Process
Entrepreneurial Orientation
Case Studies
Conclusion
Road-Map
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3. Introduction
Small-to-Medium Enterprises (SMEs) Features
An opportunity to solve a business need
Clear goals with absence of vision
Financial struggles (Cash Flow Management)
Limited resources
Shallow business knowledge
Only 10% of the startups survive after the 10th year
SMEs have to compete with large organizations in the market
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4. Introduction 4
Class Existing Companies New established companies
Annual revenues
(EGP Mn.)
Paid up Capital
(EGP Mn.)
Micro Less than 1 Less than 0.05
Very Small 1 : 10 0.05 : 5 to industrial companies
0.05 : 3 to the restSmall 10 : 20
Medium 20 : 100
5 : 10 to industrial companies
3 : 5 to the rest
Central Bank of Egypt Definition for the SMEs
6. Introduction
SMEs Role in the International Economy
80% of the GDP and contribute to 75% of exports in Egypt
99% of all firms in USA and employ 50% of the work force in USA
85% of new jobs and 66% of the total private sector employment in the EU
90% of the business in UAE and Produces 70% of the GDP (oil-based economy)
33% of the GDP in Saudi Arabia
19% of the country exports in Malaysia with 35% of the employment
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7. Research Objective
Evaluate
extension of applying
strategic planning
in SMEs
Study
impact of Entrepreneurial
Orientation on performance
Set
methodology for
comprehensive research on
Egyptian SMEs
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10. Strategic Planning Process
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Continuous Process
Experienced Teams
High Quality Resources
Market Leaders
Return on Investments
11. Entrepreneurial Orientation
“Entrepreneurial orientation is usually defined as a multidimensional
construct, applied at the organizational level, which characterizes
firm's entrepreneurial behavior and includes one or several of these three
dimensions: risk-taking, innovativeness and pro-activeness.”
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14. Research Methods 14
Research design is based on the review of 6 researches.
Reviewing the same topic.
Selected based on the target market.
Middle East (Saudi Arabia and UAE)
Africa (Kenya and Tanzania)
South East Asia (Malaysia and Sri Lanka)
Markets with common economic or social environment
18. South-East Asia Cases
Sri LankaMalaysiaComparison
SMEs in Sri LankaSMEs in Northern StateApplication
Mixed MethodsQuantitativeAnalysis
Random
Focal Group
RandomSampling
150 + 8 cases250Sample
Primary
(survey + interviews)
Primary
(mail questionnaire)Data
n/a36%Response Rate
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19. Conclusion
Strategic Planning is a hectic process for SMEs
Less than 25% of SMEs practice formal strategic planning
A wider utilization of informal planning is followed
Strategic Planning has positive impact on SMEs performance
It may not be the only factor, but it is one of the main pillars
Entrepreneurial orientation boosts the growth potential of SMEs
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20. Research Design
Mixed Methods Analysis
Longitudinal Analysis over one year
Random Sampling
Sample Size of 250 SMEs
Demographics Analysis (Education, Gender, Hometown, Exposure)
Data Collected through semi-structured Interviews
Email questionnaire can be distributed over middle managers
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21. Road-Map
Recommendations
Governmental sponsored research
Large research team with access to database
Results should be shared with decision makers and regulators
NGOs and NPOs contribution shall add value to the research
Research Limitation
Time frame
Demographic impact
Statistical analysis
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In this slide we should talk about the main features of the SMEs. Normally, SMEs are founded to catch the opportunity of market demand for a services or product.
The founders are mostly technical people whom are able to identify the market gap and know how to solve it, they know the goal but they miss the vision (long term plans).
On starting the business, they face low sales numbers and fail to manage the operation or high unexpected sales and fail to manage the money (cash flow).
The financing of these low credit (they don’t have assets or guarantee) organizations results in hard financing terms that puts SMEs in financial struggles.
The founders will mostly get deeply involved in technical issues to adjust the product quality and match the market specifications, but they shall not pay attention to the business files (marketing, sales, hr and accounting).
This slide presents the Central Bank of Egypt definition of the SMEs and MSEs (micro-to-small). The definition is highly dependent on the economic situation in Egypt which is totally different than the definition of Dubai in the next slide.
The presenter should go through numbers and read them to the audience to enable the comparison with the next slide.
This slide presents the Dubai definition of the SMEs and MSEs (micro-to-small).
The presenter should go through numbers and read them to the audience to enable the comparison with the next slide.
This slide presents some statistics on the impact of SMEs on the economy of some countries around the world.
It is obvious then why the researches around the world pay a great attention for the SMEs performance and growth. They deeply study every and each factor that may contribute in stable growth of these firms, and this why we should do the same in Egypt.
The research objective should be read to the audience to clear the idea behind this research.
This is the end of section 1, the introduction.