Determining Business Interruption Losses for Small Business

Estimating business and residential water supply interruption losses from catastrophic events

Following man-made or natural catastrophes, widespread and long-lasting disruption of lifelines can lead to economic impacts for both business and residential lifeline users. As a result, the total economic losses caused by infrastructure damage may be much higher than the value of damage to infrastructure itself. In this paper, we consider the estimation of economic impacts to businesses and r...

Factors Determining Digital Imaging Technology Adoption in Small Business

While IT adoption has been the focus of much research, this paper combines aspects of research that have received little attention. First, this paper focuses on the factors affecting IT adoption from the firm-level. Second, a novel technology such as digital imaging technology (DIT) is investigated. Not only is this very relevant but this moves away from the much researched technology, EDI. Las...

Business Intelligence for Small Business: Assessment, Framework & Agenda

Small businesses, businesses with 20 or less personnel, account for a significant proportion of economic activity and it is the economic sector that employs the most people in OECD countries. Small businesses are fundamentally different than larger organizations in their operations and decision-making processes. Business intelligence (BI) is the current approach to management decision support i...

Democratizing Business Software: Small Business Ecosystems for Open Source Applications

small business financing practices: an empirical study

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