Asian governments and companies did much of it last year -- restraining credit, trimming corporate fat, lifting productivity -- to cool overheating economies and gear up enterprises for competition.
But Jain does not think Egnyte can survive on small and medium-sized business alone for that he believes the company must sell to bigger enterprises where the competition is less fierce.
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This can be a sustainable method for targeting, attracting and retaining customers and can keep enterprises ahead of the competition as long as the technology can support the model.
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In addition, cheap Chinese goods in particular, textiles have flooded African markets, wiping out competition, crippling local enterprises, closing factories and adding to widespread unemployment.
Instead, he spent the summer and fall slowly rebuilding the consensus behind the reform movement, patiently pushing the argument that China could not overhaul its inefficient state-owned enterprises without opening up further to international competition.
For China the changes mean difficulties in the short-term for state-owned enterprises that will now have to face up to competition from foreign companies.
Butchers like Tony are optimistic that bad news for the supermarkets and big-name brands could translate into better business for smaller, locally-owned enterprises, hit hard by the BSE crisis and competition from big out-of-town shopping centres.
While the retail market is open to the vagaries of high competition and eventual commoditization of the market, enterprises generally enter into multi-year contracts and are therefore less prone to changing vendors as often as retail buyers do.
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In an era of hyper competition, shrinking product life cycles and globalization, enterprises are exploring everywhere for ways to boost innovation and performance.
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That is, Congress should hold out the carrot of normalized trade relations and other substantive inducements to those republics that move aggressively to liberalize prices, permit private ownership, massively privatize state-owned enterprises and generally create a workable legal and business framework for entrepreneurial competition as well as allowing for the free movement of their people, goods and capital.
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And everything that gets in the way of that competition reduces the benefit to the consumer by raising prices or sending otherwise profitable enterprises out of business.
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Small enterprises, and expanded business ownership, justify capitalism by showing it is still open to competition, and that anyone, however humble, can participate and gain from the system.
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Largely as a result of this lack of competition, and the generally inefficient and haphazard way in which command-economic enterprises operate, there are chronic shortages, particularly of consumer goods.
But as this special report will argue, if China's state-owned enterprises enjoy a renaissance under China's new leaders, it will be to the detriment of competition and increased consumption as a new driver of growth.
The threat of competition associated with monopoly repeal has helped postal services in those countries to become more efficient, more effective enterprises.
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