A main inhibitor to electronically extending supply chains is that large organizations and the majority of their smaller business partners have incompatible business systems. Big businesses’ sophisticated IT infrastructures support many kinds of information integration, manipulation, and reporting, whereas many small to medium businesses (SMBs) use IT only for simple clerical tasks. Big busines...

The Massachusetts Office of Technical Assistance and Technology (OTA) is offering the Right from the Start program to provide Massachusetts businesses with the technical and regulatory support needed to maximize environmental and economic performance. It is especially designed to encourage businesses seeking permits for expansion or start up of new manufacturing operations to consider pollution...

Youth entrepreneurship is one of the solutions for unemployment. Previous studies focused to some extent on support youth entrepreneurship. The purpose this paper was analyse profitability youth-owned businesses. This aimed at making a scientific contribution research by Radipere and Ladzani (2014) Hallak et al. analysing businesses, using theoretical framework profitability. A quantitative app...

Purpose The objective of this article is to discuss how the research on innovation in small businesses may be operationalized. This paper discusses field's concepts, typologies, units analysis and general basic assumptions pertaining operationalization businesses. Design/methodology/approach an essay, whose format aims provide reader with reflections multiple questions, by instigating free thin...

BACKGROUND Despite having access to medically necessary care available through publicly funded provincial health care systems, some Canadians travel for treatment provided at international medical facilities as well as for-profit clinics found in several Canadian provinces. Canadians travel abroad for orthopaedic surgery, bariatric surgery, ophthalmologic surgery, stem cell injections, "Liberat...

[Law-makers, courts and regulators all assume that businesses’ compliance with the law is at least partly influenced by management’s rational calculations about the costs and gains of compliance and noncompliance. In this article, the authors use evidence from a survey of 999 large Australian businesses and these businesses’ experiences of compliance and enforcement under the Trade Practices Ac...