Strategic Management Practices and their Relevance to Making StrategicDecisions: the Aspect of Small and Medium Enterprises in Yemen

The ability to understand modern management practices and techniques and apply themeffectively is one of the keys to successful management, and knowledge about past and presentmodels and theories is crucial for managers. this paper attempts to investigate strategicmanagerial practices with their relevance to making sound strategic decisions amongmanufacturing smes in yemen. the study is a cross-sectional study that relied on primary datacollected conveniently from 400 owners and managers of manufacturing smes in yemen. thefindings show low levels of adopting strategic management practices among manufacturing smesand a significant role of the scope of operation in differentiating the adoption of such practices.the study recommends increasing the attention towards supporting and encouraging managers andowners of smes to further embrace strategic practices while making decisions to march towardsdevelopment and sustainability