It is well recognized that e-business supports all parts of an organization’s value chain, and offers valuable competitive advantage to firms. SMFOEs (Small and Medium-sized Family Owned Enterprises) represent the majority of firms worldwide and yet many have lagged in their adoption of e-business. This paper investigates the influence of key organizational demographics, owner/manager character...

We explore what benefits network position in online business social networks like LinkedIn might confer to an aspiring entrepreneur. We compare two network attributes, size and embeddedness, and two actor attributes, location and diversity, between virtual and real-world networks. The promise of social networks like LinkedIn is that network friends enable easier access to critical resources suc...

The organisational benefits of business managers’ involvement in IT management activities are well documented. However, little relevant research has been reported. Building on the IT competencies model proposed by Bassellier, Reich and Benbasat (2001), a questionnaire was developed and empirically tested to assess the level of information technology (IT) competence of 83 business managers in sm...

BACKGROUND Small manufacturing businesses often lack important safety programs. Many reasons have been set forth on why this has remained a persistent problem. METHODS The National Machine Guarding Program (NMGP) was a nationwide intervention conducted in partnership with two workers' compensation insurers. Insurance safety consultants collected baseline data in 221 business using a 33-questi...

Consider an optimization problem for a company with the following parameters: a constant liability payment rate (δ), an average return (μ) and a risk (σ ) proportional to the size of the business unit, and an internal competition factor (α) between different units. The goal is to maximize the expected present value of the total dividend distributions, via controls (Ut , Zt ), where Ut is the si...

dynamic business environment enforces organizations to constantly update and reform their own strategic expectations. changing the embedded business rules in information systems is vital to fulfill strategic expectation. determining appropriate position to change business rule in information systems is regarded as a time-consuming and complex activity. therefore, it is necessary to identify and...

the aim of this research was to understand the dynamisms relating to knowledge transfer processes and practices, which exist within a business community in edinburgh scotland. the methodology used within this study was a uniquedesign methodology to include 20 in-depth interviews with participants from four local organizations. the sample group consisted of males aged between 20 and 70. the samp...

the aim of this study was to investigate the effect of competencies and environmental factors on the success of rural entrepreneurs in kermanshah township. the statistical population consisted of 110 rural entrepreneurs that with using kerjci and morgan table, a sample size of 86 people were selected by random sampling technique. to collect the data, questionnaire was used. the analysis of find...