Small and medium-sized enterprises do not participate to their full potential in the knowledge infrastructure. Although the increase of the ‘asset’ knowledge in products and services offers new challenges and opportunities, it also throws up new barriers. One such barrier, access to knowledge, is especially affecting smalland medium-sized enterprises since only 2% have a structural relationship...

This study was intended to verify the effects of implementing the Balance-Scored Card (BSC) on the organizational performances by using BSC as the moderator. Managers and directors in smalland medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Taiwan’s electronics industry were interviewed and ROE data was sourced from Taiwan Economic Journal. This study adopted a simple random sampling method to sample the po...

The small and medium-sized enterprises are the main nucleus, which moves the economies of countries such as Mexico. Many of them have emerged by need lack of sources of employment, attending to the needs in an empirical manner; identifying here an area of opportunity for IT professionals. We can provide the tools for anyone involved with SMES, to improve the productivity and competitiveness of ...

This qualitative study explores corporations' motivations to comply with new natural health products (NHP) Regulations in Canada. Interviews were conducted with representatives from 20 Canadian NHP companies. Findings show that the rationale for compliance differs for large compared to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Large firms are motivated to comply with the regulations because of...

Society is increasingly dependent on Information Security Management Systems (ISMS), and having these kind of systems has become vital for the development of Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (SMEs). However, these companies require ISMS that have been adapted to their special features and have been optimized as regards the resources needed to deploy and maintain them, with very low costs and ...

This paper presents an e-engineering contracting system developed for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) by the EU funded e-HUBs project (“e-Engineering enabled by Holonomic and Universal Broker Services”, IST-2001-34031). As a dedicated service within the Business to Business (B2B) arena, the engineering e-Hub is designed to facilitate the outsourcing of engineering services. The projec...

The use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) by Small and Medium Sized Enterprises (SMEs) have the potential to enable these businesses to grow through access to new markets and administrative efficiencies. However, the growth of the smallest of these SMEs which are micro-enterprises is hindered by their inability to adopt ICTs effectively to achieve competitive advantage. This ...

This study surveys the receptivity of Singaporean small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to the adoption of electronic commerce. Utilising a portion of Rogers' model of innovation diffusion as the framework and treating electronic commerce (EC) as a form of new innovation, we analyse factors affecting EC diffusion. A multiple regression analysis is carried out, with the five attributes of in...

This study surveys the perceptions and experiences of Australian smalland medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the implementation of Internet-based Electronic Commerce (EC) as seen from the perspective of the extent of deployment. With a sample of 115 small businesses in Australia, this article uses regression modelling to explore and establish the factors that are related to the extent of deploy...

The use of the Internet and Web technologies lead to E-Learning activities and public vocational training organisations as well as enterprises invest money for professional education projects in connection with E-Learning activities. But despite imperative figures referring such investments, the actual impact of projects about the use of new learning technologies particularly E-Learning for sma...