As small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) face new challenges in a complex and dynamic competitive environment, they need to cooperate due to their restricted resources and limited capacities. At this, Enterprise 2.0 is seen as a supporting approach. To this date, there is a lack of academic publications concerning recommendations for the application of Web 2.0 artifacts in SME-networks. Thi...

The concept of organisational learning has experienced a huge growth in the last decade, both in academic and business domains. The rationale for the development and growth of material in this area can be attributed to the changing dynamics of the business world, coupled with the extensive analytical value of organisational learning in contributing to the development of understanding the SME fi...

Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) have been particularly slow to adopt EDI for such reasons as the perceived high cost of implementing EDI, the lack of willing trading partners, the evolutionary nature of the document translation standards and the lack of awareness of the benefits of EDI. Despite a growing understanding of the factors which influence SME adoption of technologies such as EDI, ...

This study investigates the impact of available training alternatives (TAs) on employee retention in small and medium enterprises (SMEs). A noticeable problem with this research issue is that individual SMEs may utilize different combination of TAs. The considered survey questionnaire allowed respondent SME owners/managers the option to gauge the level of satisfaction of a TA or to indicate tha...

This paper details an ongoing research study centred on the impact of the Internet Marketing within Small and Medium Enterprise’s (SMEs) in the United Kingdom (UK). It addresses the need for and development of, Critical Success Factors (CSF’s) to facilitate Internet Marketing and its acceptance by those SMEs with little or no knowledge of marketing, the Internet or of Customer Relationship Mana...

This research examined the role of implicit instructions and the effect of feedback on commander trust using a combination of interviews with Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) and empirical investigation. System behaviour protocols were developed following a series of SME interviews. The protocols defined commander requirements of AS behaviour to implement the implicit, explicit and intent-based co...

The present paper seeks to investigate the cognitive abilities of expert EFL teachers. To this aim, the existing literature was examined and ten cognitive themes were derived which were further investigated through interviews conducted with ten academics, teacher trainers and exemplary teachers of the field in the Iranian context. The ten extracted themes were attested by interviewees’ comments...