This paper is very much on work in progress. Only this year did we decide to start research on HRM in small and medium sized enterprises (SME’s) in the Netherlands. Personnel management in SME’s has been little researched, yet SME’s are very important for economic activity and many owners/managers struggle with personnel issues. In this paper we will introduce an outline of our research so far....

What are the opinions of small and medium-sized enterprises with experience of Swedish patent litigation? We offer description and analysis from a 2016 interview survey of nine small and medium-sized enterprises that had been involved in Swedish patent litigation on infringement and/or invalidity. Our results show that the companies are of the opinion that the proceedings were too slow and cost...

SMEs can now afford enterprise-class services by adopting cloud computing. The four cases reported in the full article show that SMEs are getting great economic and business value from cloud services, including cost avoidance, cost savings, rapid deployment and scalability, management simplicity, and better security and resiliency compared to in-house IT provision. Cloud services have the poten...

This thesis presents the design and implementation of the All-or-Nothing package transform, presented by Ronald Rivest in 1997 [24], and its subsequently integration in an existing peer-to-peer backup system. This encryption mode provides a third alternate way of ensuring confidentiality, integrity and availability of backups. Resilia, the existing prototype where this extension is built on, co...

Start of implementation Q I 1999 Q III 1999 Period of implementation 1999-2001 1999-2001 Counterpart contribution (partner banks) 20% (of the volume of sub-loans) 50% (of the volume of sub-loans) Financing, of which Financial Cooperation (FC) funds FC loan: EUR 4.35 million Complementary measure: EUR 1.5 million SEEAF: EUR 4.6 million FC loan: EUR 4.35 million Complementary measure: EUR 1.5 mil...

Abstract: The definition of innovation strategies has been widely discussed in literature. Several authors refer to the systematic exploration of critical success factors (e.g. quality, innovation ability and scale effects) as being a useful instrument for strategy development. Previous research has focused predominantly on qualitative descriptions and on setting up a general framework for crit...

Key conclusions • The emphasis on management accounting in SMEs tends to be on control information rather than aiding decision-making; there is a tendency to make decisions without adequate, or indeed any, financial information or analysis; • In smaller enterprises, the management accounting is often undertaken by the owner-manager/entrepreneur, resulting in significant opportunity costs. Where...