SMEs and Crime
研究了荷兰阿姆斯特丹市区及周边中小企业如何应对安全问题，发现三分之一企业家感到不安全，抢劫和入室盗窃是主要威胁，企业平均将销售额的1%用于安全投资。
This article deals with different aspects relating to how SMEs in the city and urban surroundings of Amsterdam (the Netherlands) go about creating a more secure environment. Security and criminality appear to be important issues for them. One-third of the entrepreneurs do not feel particularly safe at their current location. Robbery and burglary are the most important threats. Additional locks and alarm installations are the measures that are taken the most frequently to combat crime. The security issue has an important role to play when it comes to possible plans to move to a new location, thus being an important external factor which can only partially be dealt with. Some interesting sector, location and firm size effects emerged. Strikingly, these differences do not lead to any significant differences in thelevels of investment in security measures: the general investment in security is about 1 per cent of a firm’s sales.