Service orientation is one of the solutions for achieving agile enterprises, that helps make an alignment between business and information technology. By the influx of service orientation into the business domain, a new concept called service oriented organization is created that in business modeling of these enterprises, new modeling elements such as business and software services, rather than...

Large industrial enterprises had innovation rates of 84% compared to 63% of similarly sized service enterprises. In excess of 67% of medium sized industrial enterprises engaged in innovation activity in the period while 58% of service enterprises were innovation active. Small industrial enterprises (ten to forty-nine persons engaged) had an innovation activity rate of 51% compared to 38% of sma...

rapid changes in science and technology have made the uncertainty a distinctive feature of our environment. the main reason for such changes is technology, and entrepreneurs are the technology creators. in our country, technological entrepreneurship, which in most authorities’ opinion is the key to technological and economic development, has not been explored so far. although nearly a decade ha...

This paper aims to describe and analyse possible impacts on selling online by enterprises as the main variable under consideration in the study, in selected European countries using five selected independent variables that represent the information and communication technology (ICT) and the economic development level. Data for 31 European countries were analysed. The paper presents recent trend...

Article history: Received 11 February 2014 Received in revised form 17 July 2014 Accepted 7 October 2014 Available online 28 October 2014 Innovation efficiency is an effectivemeasure of an enterprise's innovation level. This study focuses on those factors that decide the innovation efficiency of Chinese private enterprises, and on the impacts that political relations and financing constraints h...

Global competition has forced manufacturing enterprises to collaborate together towards fulfilling market demands and satisfying customers. Through collaboration, enterprises will be able to share and effectively utilise their resources. A major challenge in implementing enterprise collaboration is based on the integration of heterogeneous hardware and software platforms. Service-oriented compu...

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 should find a new business model for their development, so as to make better use of their own advantages. At the same time, with rapid development of the economy and of science technology, the competition between small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and large enterprises is inevitable, so it is very important for small and medium-sized enterprises to find better ways to improve...

Excellence Synergic Index (ESI) is a new method for the excellence measurement. This technique is a causal method. ESI method was developed for studying the relations and interaction of excellence criteria and organizational pathology. By “ESI”, it is possible to measure the performance excellence of any service enterprises, to diagnosis organizational pathos and to propose problem-solvin...