Incorpoating Sustainability Concepts to Management Models of Textile Micro, Smalll and Medium Enterprises (Sum)

Micro-Small-Medium-Sded Enterprises (MSME) constitutes 99% of Formally establishment Enterprises in Latin-American Countries Such as Ecuador. However, Msmes' Levels of Productivity Are Often Exceedingly Low Due to Inefficient Management of Activities, Times, and Resources. MSMES ARE ALSO CONFRONTED WITH THE GLOBAL TRED TO SUSTAINABLE BECOME MORE. Although Theoretical Models on Sustainability Have Been Developed, We Identify The Need To Develop A Practical Model That Can Be Easily Implemented by Msmes to Support Sustainability. This Project Aims at Designing, Implementing and Validating, What We Call, A Sustainable Management (Sum) Model Focused on The Uptake of Sustainability Decions into a Time-Driven Activity-Based (TDABC) Costing Model To Obtain Improved Levels of Performance and Sustainability. We Conjecture that tdabc can be implemented at a relativley Small Scale in msmes and that This model can be extended to calculate the custom consequences of substantability decisions. To This End, Three Case Studies Will Be used to Analyze The Current Situation of Msmes in the Ecuadorian Textile Industry and Folow Up with the sum implementation.

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