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Impact of Agility on Enterprise Performance in SMEs of Pakistan

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The study has focused towards agile enterprises and the main focus is on studying the SMEs of Pakistan. Agile systems are the need of the modern era as the business environments are changing with the increasing trends of competitiveness, therefore, it is important for the firms to understand the importance of agile systems. The agile systems forms the agile enterprises and those enterprises are the ones that gain competitive advantage in the market. The existing paper is focused on literature and secondary data which will help readers and scholars in analyzing the impact of agility in the performances of SMEs in Pakistan.

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  1. Faculty of Engineering Management, Poznan University of Technology, Poznań, Poland

    Taimour Khalid Chaudhary

  2. Department of Management and Information Systems, Poznan University of Technology, Poznań, Poland

    Stefan Trzcieliński

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    Salman Nazir

  3. Hungarian-Netherlands School of Educational Management, University of Szeged, Szeged, Hungary

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Chaudhary, T.K., Trzcieliński, S. (2019). Impact of Agility on Enterprise Performance in SMEs of Pakistan. In: Kantola, J.I., Nazir, S., Barath, T. (eds) Advances in Human Factors, Business Management and Society. AHFE 2018. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 783. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-94709-9_48

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