摘要：In the European Union, small firms with fewer than 10
employees predominate ¨C they account for 92 percent
of all business companies in the EU, according to a
recent European Commission survey. The average
European company employs seven people, but there
are differences between the member countries, due to
various structural, institutional and historical conditions.
In Greece, for instance, SMEs employ an average of
just two people, in Italy the figure is four, in Spain six,
in the Netherlands twelve and in Germany ten. In
Europe as a whole, people employed in SMEs account
for 66 percent of the total workforce; in the USA the
figure is 33 percent. One reason for this marked difference
is that many micro-enterprises in the USA are
sole traders; another is that the lively fluctuation of
business start-ups and closures in the USA means that
there are always many firms in the start-up phase, with
a correspondingly smaller size.
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