First, this survey selected a sample of private enterprises according to the scales and industrial structures in the China Statistical Yearbook and then investigated them through the local bureaus of industries and businesses.
In particular, Di Salvo et al. (2004), in a survey on a sample of 1,700 enterprises (most of which were SMEs), show that in the period 2000 to 2002, a significant number of entrepreneurs started relationships with small local banks because of the customer's proximity to the intermediary.
Within the effective sample, the proportions of enterprises from eastern, central, and western China are 56, 25, and 19%% respectively.
Data for the empirical investigation originates from a sample of 7302 European enterprises.
Data are sourced from a global sample of 45 leading enterprises from the steel, cement and automotive sector, including some of the largest GHG emitters in the world.
After making these exceptions, we drew a representative sample of 6,611 commercial enterprises and a sample of 1,744 industrial firms (1,267 firms with more than 10 employees and 477 with four to nine employees).
The present study aims to bridge this gap by examining the impact of a set of organizational elements on the service-enhancement in a sample of ICT manufacturing enterprises in China.
In Indonesia, the sample of 60 micro-enterprises were monitored by Widiyanto (2007) in Central Java.
Features of enterprises sampled varied substantially from garment and shoes making to optical instruments and electronic hardware manufacturing.
An empirical survey via questionnaires was conducted on a sample of 100 leading hotels enterprises in Greece.
