Information and communication technologies (ICTs)hold tremendous potential for rural development inGhana in the areas of agriculture, health, educationand small scale industries. However, issues such asthe availability of ICTs, electricity, literacy, telecom-munications and content have to be addressed beforeany benefits can be obtained from ICTs for ruraldevelopment.

This study aims to examine the influence of variables Entrepreneurial Orientation, Marketing Performance, and ICT Capabilities on Competitive Advantage how increase competitiveness at Cibaduyut Shoe Industry Center. The research methods used are qualitative quantitative methods. Data analysis techniques model testing using Structural Equation Modeling-Partial Least Square (SEM-PLS). results sho...

This study considers the effect of an industry's network topology on its systemic risk contribution to the stock market using data from the CSI 300 two-tier industry indices from the Chinese stock market. We first measure industry's conditional-value-at-risk (CoVaR) and the systemic risk contribution (ΔCoVaR) using the fitted time-varying t-copula function. The network of the stock industry is ...

nowadays, in most countries, whether developed or developing, the standing of small and medium economic enterprises has been at the focus of attention by policymakers in these countries. however, opponents and proponents have largely debated the effectiveness of small to medium economic enterprises in iran. with this approach, in mind, the present study was carried out to evaluate the performan...

The globally soaring energy prices and electricity shortfall are major hurdles in the economic development of Pakistan. To cope with periodic power outages, small medium enterprise (SME) business owners have to fall back on alternate sources such as backup generators uninterruptible supplies (UPS), which further increase per kWh cost electricity, quality issues, greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. ...

A new age of industrial robotics is here which includes safety rated human friendly robots. These types of robots are more suitable in high volume and small scale industries. The operations in these areas can be fully automated. There are other industries which have specialty for low volume and high variability. High variety means there are less chances of fully automation as one product will b...

Direct Attached Storage, Network Attached Storage and Storage Area Network are the different kind of networking and storage facilities used in different domains from small scale industries to large scale industries. Storage area network is a disk system concentrated on network which allows clients or servers to use the disk system as a local disk. The speed of transmission of data to and from t...

he empirical studies have shown that cost advantages can occur due to economies of scale and economies of learning. However, a few studies have attempted to distinguish between these two effects on reducing costs. This paper is the first attempt on recognizing the impact of learning on reducing the cost with distinguishing the effect of economies of scale in Iran. Therefore, this study aims to ...