Issues and challenges of SMEs in Palestine

• Main Authors: Ramadan, Hashem Ismail, Ahmad, Saari
• Format: Conference or Workshop Item
• Language: English
• Published: 2017
• Subjects: HD28 Management. Industrial Management
• Online Access: http://repo.uum.edu.my/23834/1/CBMM%202017%201002%201011.pdf; http://repo.uum.edu.my/23834/
• Institution: Universiti Utara Malaysia

This study aims to shed light on the issues and challenges facing the SMEs in Palestine.Despite the emphasis, the review of previous articles and studies suggests that limited researches that have addressed this issue from different sides, especially in the context of Palestinian SMEs.After a brief review of pertinent literature this paper show that there are many challenges facing SMEs in Palestine, first the internal challenges in these companies, second the external challenges belonging to external environment in addition to the most important challenge which is the Israeli policies that prevent Palestinian SMEs development.