Previous studies on social enterprises reported that unlike private enterprise consumers, social enterprise consumers appreciate the social value of the enterprise products and that social value affects customer satisfaction and repurchase intention. However, previous literature also pointed out that focusing only on social value as the factor affecting purchase behavior does not reflect the ch...

Enterprises increasingly use the Internet to offer their own services and to utilise the services of others. An extension of this trend is Internet-based collaboration between enterprises to form virtual enterprises for the delivery of goods or services. Effective formation of a virtual enterprise will require information sharing across organisational boundaries. Despite the requirement to shar...

Privatization which refers to the transition of ownership and management of state-owned enterprises to the private sector, is one of the main drivers of economic prosperity. In this paper, the performance of the state, private, and privatized banks have been compared through examining the effects of privatization in the banking system on its performance. The data from 11 banks during the 13-yea...

development of modern economy without private sector and high vigilance entrepreneurs is vital to identify opportunities and use of opportunities around the world. in this regard, identifying the influencing factors on emergence and development of entrepreneurship culture can be effective to promote entrepreneurship in our country. for this purpose, the main issue in this study is to identify t...

The impact of import competition on labour productivity is examined using panel data for a sample of Australian manufacturing firms over the period 1984 to 1993. Import competition is found to interact with domestic competition; such the positive impact of import competition on the level and rate of growth of labour productivity rises with the degree of concentration among domestic producers. T...

I. Introduction A recent 2014 survey indicates cloud adoption by the enterprises continues unabated to about 94%[1]. These organisations are either running their applications on cloud or have started building their own cloud. Some of the popular commercial IaaS providers are Amazon Web Services(AWS), GoGrid, Microsoft Azure, Google Compute Engine, IBM Smart Cloud, Rackspace Open Cloud, HP enter...

This study examines relation of the auditor choice and cost of debt financing for private SMEs (small and medium sized enterprises). In particular, it examines whether choice of a certified auditor or reputable international audit firm provides economic value to private SMEs as a factor lowering firms' information problems and cost of debt financing in the capital markets. Using time-series cro...

Virtual Private Networks (VPN) are a popular way for enterprises to interconnect remote sites. Traditionally, VPNs have been based on Frame Relay, Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) or Time Division Multiplex (TDM) private lines, using the service provider's ATM core network, and accounting for the majority of their data service revenues. However, the influences of a highly dynamic telecommunicat...