This exploratory study seeks to promote investigation about knowledge sharing between enterprises of the same enterprise group and is motivated by the growing importance of knowledge management (KM) to businesses. The data was collected from Community Innovation Survey (CIS) 2012 and three linear regressions were performed (one to all enterprises, one to SME and one to large enterprises). The r...

The present research study aims to discover the effects of IT adoption in micro-enterprises in the Latino community in the United States. While the majority of the IT adoption literature considers large organizations, this study relies on Sen’s Capability Approach and an adaptation of Action Research to support the adoption of IT by micro-enterprises. This “IT therapy” process enables IT to be ...

Following ISO9000 and ISO14000, SA8000 standard is now attracting international attention and it exerts influence on the export trade of China, particularly on the export trade of labor-intensive products. Because Chinese enterprises lack understanding of this standard and the importance attached to this standard in the government’s macro-administration is not sufficient, at this stage, only a ...

In most countries, micro-enterprises make up the majority of firms. Canada has more than 500,000 employer micro-enterprises, representing 77% of all firms (Industry Canada, 2001); if we include owner-operated firms with no employees, the number and proportion of microenterprises would be much larger. Although the development potential of this group of firms would seem to be huge, micro-enterpri...

In the severer market competition, the learning character of enterprises tends to be the most important resource of enterprises winning and maintaining market competence. By analyzing problems in talent cultivation based on learning enterprises at present in China, this thesis advances that enterprises can make efforts from these aspects: updating thoughts and opinions, improving enterprise qua...

This paper has combed the research results on internal control of small and medium manufacturing enterprises of domestic and foreign scholars. Combined with the status analysis of internal control and risk management of small and medium manufacturing enterprises, this paper built the internal control framework of small and medium manufacturing enterprises based on comprehensive risk management ...

Enterprises are essential to the sustainment of our modern society. However, they rarely receive the level of attention and rigor that technical systems do. Treating enterprises as systems is a promising approach, but enterprises depend on a substantial social component. The inherent complexity of social systems introduces epistemic limitations that inhibit our ability to model social systems a...

This paper describes an intelligent decision support system for evaluating state-owned enterprises (SOEs) using DEA models. This decision support system converts numerical data into information that can be used to evaluate state-owned enterprises (SOEs). In this paper, we use DEA models, including CCR, BCC and FDH, to shed new light on the operational efficiency and determinants of stateowned e...

Today, when market competition becomes increasingly fierce, improving the efficiency of storage services becomes a key for chemical companies to win the trade war. Focusing on the improvement of internal storage efficiency of enterprises, aiming at the characteristics that production enterprises for primary chemicals rely on economies of scale to make profit, according to industry conditions an...