Developing SMEs as environmental businesses

Vulnerability of community businesses to environmental disasters.

Business plays important roles in community functioning. However, disaster research has been disproportionately focused on units of analysis such as families, households and government agencies. This paper synthesises the major findings within the business development research field and the disaster research field. It constructs a framework for evaluating business vulnerability to natural disas...

Conceptualising B2C Businesses as Services

Conceptualising B2C businesses as an innovative class of technology-infused services yields insights into the factors that may lead to success or failure of such businesses. This paper draws from and adapts concepts from services marketing literature and recent thinking on Internet service metrics to present a framework for understanding and analysing B2C businesses.

Developing DA Applications in SMEs Industrial Context

This paper discusses aspects related to the implementation of Design Automation applications within Small Medium Enterprises (SMEs) industrial context. It focuses the attention on some characteristics of the design process in SME context, and highlights issues of DA in relation to the characteristics previously evidenced. On this basis, it has been defined a methodology, named MEDEA (Methodolog...

Promoting Environmental Management in Dutch Smes

Social Responsibility and Environmental Issues Addressed by Businesses in Romania

This article aims to analyze the situation of Romanian companies from an environmental point of view. Environmental issues are addressed very often nowadays, and they reach and affect every domain, including the economical one. Implementing an environmental management system will not only help the companies to comply with laws and regulations, but, above all, will offer them an important compet...