abstract small and medium-sized enterprises (smes) play a major role in national economy. e-business processes provide many opportunities for these companies to compete in regional and international markets. this study seeks to analyze the factors affecting e-business implementation in small and medium-sized enterprises. for this purpose, 10 factors and 61 indices were identified based on the l...

Empirical research shows that larger businesses tend to survive longer than smaller companies. Little research, though, shows whether size confers survival advantages independent of profitability. Moreover, no prior research attempts to disentangle the benefits of scale from those of greater business scope. Thus, we lack a conceptual understanding of the underlying benefits of business size for...

Based on a conceptual model, this paper aims to explore the background of the decision-making process leading to the introduction of business information systems among enterprises in Hungary. Together with presenting the problems arising in the course of the implementation of such systems, their usage patterns are also investigated. A strong correlation is established between the size of an ent...

Packaged applications are being widely adopted at midand large-size companies to automate both internal and business-to-business processes. E-Business/ERP implementations are usually part of a broader enterprise computing effort involving the integration of Web, server and host-based applications. In many cases, EBusiness/ERP systems constitute the engine upon which new business processes are d...

authors thank Peggy Gilligan for providing valuable research assistance. L ending to small firms traditionally has been a business served primarily by the banking industry. Banks have specialized in assessing and monitoring borrowers, particularly companies too small to access the bond and equity markets directly. In addition, because banks provide a variety of transactions services such as che...

Internet based B2C e-Commerce is flourishing, but not so much in the area of business to business. For over 20 years, EDI has established VAN based solution of exchanging business information in electronic form. However EDI solutions are only accessible to large organizations due to the cost factor. Moreover lack of well accepted B2B business process standards is hindering the success in promot...

Title of dissertation: THE BUSINESS CYCLE CONSEQUENCES OF INFORMAL LABOR MARKETS Alan Finkelstein Shapiro Doctor of Philosophy, 2013 Dissertation directed by: Professor S. Borağan Aruoba Professor John C. Haltiwanger Department of Economics This dissertation explores the connection between the structure of labor markets and business cycle dynamics, with a focus on informality. The first chapter...

The Swiss eGovernment strategy promotes business process orientation of the public administration. Therefore public administrations have been strongly encouraged to document their business processes. The eCH standards have defined the foundations for the modeling. But in particular in smaller cantons and municipalities the business process identification and modeling can be considered as a seri...

Grounded in the technology–organization–environment (TOE) framework, we have developed an extended conceptual research model for assessing the value of e-business at the bank level. For the purposes of our research some constructs were added to (TOE) framework such as IT/Business strategy alignment, adequacy of IT professionals, and availability of online revenues. Other factors were excluded s...

in today’s turbulent world, the continuity of criticalactivities in the event of disruptions, and also fast recovery and return tobusiness as usual, are vital for sustainable success of companies. maintainingcontinuous delivery of critical business processes in the event of disruptions isa matter of business continuity. business continuity management system (bcms)is concerned with the developme...